Mac OS X Universal Binary for Intel and Power PC.
Supports most Garmin and Magellan handheld and fixed-mount GPS receivers with displays for upload and download of Waypoints (with their Icons), Proximity Waypoints, Routes, Track Logs, and Satellite Almanacs. All coordinate transfers produce a map on the screen of the data transferred.
Supports USGlobalSat and other displayless GPS receivers, including Bluetooth wireless receivers, for a real-time display of GPS information on a moving map on the Macintosh screen. Generate and display Waypoints, Routes and Tracklogs on the Mac screen.
Saves all GPS data in editable, tab-delimited text files, allowing easy data exchange with Excel, databases such as FileMaker, and text editors such as BBEdit.
Imports GPS data from places like the geocaching.com web site. Imports ".LOC" files, ".GPX" files, and USGS Geographic Place Name files.
Exports GPX waypoint, route and track log files. These can be opened by many other GPS programs, including Garmin's POI loader.
Imports and Exports “.kml” files for Google Earth. Show the waypoints, routes and track logs from your GPS receiver on Google Earth. Generate data using Google Earth, and transfer it into your GPS receiver.
Captures and Displays Real-Time data (NMEA 0183 and Garmin PVT). Optional large font display makes for easy viewing at a distance or with a quick glance.
Collects raw NMEA data to a file, and play back that file as though the GPS receiver were currently connected. Playback can be sped up or slowed down.
Imports maps from a wide variety of sources, or use maps you scan yourself. These maps can be viewed, panned, zoomed, and measured even with no GPS receiver connected. Maps are displayed with very high image quality, even when zoomed in or out. MacGPS Pro is an excellent viewer for USGS Digital Raster Graphic topo maps, (NOS/GEO) and BSB versions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 charts, FAA flight sectionals and many other digital maps. Maps in raster image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and PNG are automatically georeferenced if they are in GeoTIFF format, or if they are accompanied by a "world"file, a ".MAP" file (an OziExplorer caliibration format), or a ".JPR" file (a Fugawi calibration format). An example of automatically calibrated maps are the ETopo topographic maps of Canada. We produce and sell MacTopos maps for the USA. Maps that are not automatically georeferenced can be manually calibrated by clicking on a few known points. MacGPS Pro does not upload maps to any GPS receiver. The maps are used on the Macintosh screen.
Works with topo maps, marine charts, and aeronautical charts. Topo maps are not street maps; the USGS topo maps are used for backroading, camping, skiing, hiking, backpacking, 4 wheel driving, biking, kayaking, geocaching, etc. They are for recreation - not for finding street locations or addresses in a city.
Shows Chart Name and Scale of BSB and NOS files in the Open… window.
Includes a Maptech World Marine chart.
Includes NASA's Blue Marble World Topo Map.
Handles up to 64,000 waypoints, 50 routes, 300 waypoints per route.
Drag and drop in the Finder to import Map image file.
Batch map import and conversion to MacGPS Pro's native PICT file format.
Displays the Quad Name and the file name of the USGS Digital Raster Graphics topo map for any USA location, making it easy to find the exact map you need.
User selectable map projections: Albers Equal-Area Conic, Azimuthal Equidistant, Equidistant Cylindrical, Lambert Conformal Conic, Mercator, Oblique Orthographic, Polyconic, Sinusoidal, Stereographic, Transverse Mercator, British Grid, Dutch Grid, Irish Grid, New Zealand Grid, Swedish Grid, Taiwan Grid, and Swiss Grid.
User selectable map datum, allowing coordinate conversions to and from 116 different map datums that are commonly used by GPS receivers and scanned maps.
User selectable position format, with latitude and longitude in degree/minute/second, degree/decimal minute or decimal degree format, UTM, MGRS, British, Dutch, German, Irish, New Zealand, Swedish, Swiss, or Taiwan Grid coordinates, or Maidenhead Grid Squares (used by Ham Radio operators).
Graphical Editing of Waypoints and Routes. Add, delete, move, change Icon, change name, change comment, change elevation, change proximity distance, change icon color. Combine several waypoint files. Convert datums and coordinate formats.
Verbally gives current time, location, altitude, speed, and direction headed.
Help Viewer provides assistance for a smooth and easy introduction to first-time users. See the Help Guide online.
Control many MacGPS Pro functions using AppleScript.
Carefully refined over twelve years as the premier GPS-to-Mac program, MacGPS Pro is written and maintained by Dr. Lawrence W. James, Ph.D., a Stanford graduate with many years of software design experience. Our software is updated frequently with new features suggested by users.
We are small enough to listen to you! Readily available telephone or email support is included in the low purchase price.
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