MacGPS Pro 7.6
THE ULTIMATE GPS NAVIGATION SOFTWARE
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- Routes and Waypoints with Icons, with route bearings and distances in miles shown. The wider route line is the active route.
- Import maps from almost anywhere. Most maps in the following raster formats will work with MacGPS Pro: TIFF (TIF), JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PICT, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), SGI, TGA, PDF in OS X, and for Nautical Charts - Maptech BSB versions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, and Softchart NOS/GEO. These maps may be obtained by downloading them from the Internet, purchasing them on CDROM or DVD, or scanning them yourself. These maps can be calibrated and used on your Macintosh screen with or without a GPS receiver connected. USGS, TVA and Teale (California) DRG maps, and many other maps from diverse sources are automatically calibrated. Maps which do not contain calibration information can easily be manually calibrated by clicking on a few known points.
This example shows a sample BSB Chart.
This example shows two tracks on top of a Colorado map obtained from the Internet: an older drive from Highlands Ranch just south of Denver to Broomfield, and a current drive from Fort Collins to Boulder. Up to 65000 track points can be plotted. The current position is about 4 miles northeast of downtown Boulder. The velocity vector shows where the car will be in 5 minutes if it continues on its current course at the current speed.
- Using the Location Tool to click on the background map gives the coordinates of the point where you clicked,
and the bearing and distance from your current location to that point.
Where you are going:
Where you are and how to get to the Jackpot Mine:
- The View menu gives you a hint as to the many ways you can view your GPS data:
The Map Scale can be set to any reasonable arbitary zoom level. You are not limited to fixed values of zoom such as 200% & 50%.
A large Real-Time display option lets you see the GPS readings clearly even when you are some distance from the computer.
The ability to turn on and off the display of many items and to change the color of map items lets you customize the map display to exactly what you want for each specific use.
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A Drive up Boulder Canyon:
This is a small section cut from a map which was made by importing a topo map from a USGS CDROM, transferring a track log from a GPS receiver which was on during the trip, using “Map Item Colors...” to set the track log to yellow, and turning on “Show Track Speeds” in the View menu. The GPS receiver does not store speeds in the track log, but MacGPS Pro calculates the speeds from the location and time information which is there.
 - A route calculated on Google Earth
and then transferred as a track log into a GPS receiver:
- A vector (latitude, longitude pairs) text file can be opened and drawn as a background map using any of the user selectable map projections (Albers Equal-Area Conic, Azimuthal Equidistant, Equidistant Cylindrical, Lambert Conformal Conic, Mercator, Oblique Orthographic, Sinusoidal, Stereographic, Transverse Mercator, British Grid, Irish Grid, New Zealand Grid, Swedish Grid, Taiwan Grid, and Swiss Grid)
This shows a background vector map of the world's coastlines generated by MacGPS Pro in the Oblique Orthographic projection (the "Show Lat-Lon Grid Lines" option in the View menu was used).
Ham radio operators can use the Azimuthal Equidistant projection to draw a beam-pointing map of the world centered directly on their own QTH.
- Waypoints with Icons, Routes, and Track Log Files for transferring to the GPS receiver may be created by clicking on the map.
Waypoints can also be imported from files written by some other programs, or downloaded from the Internet (for example from USGS sites). Geocaching Waypoints can be transferred to your GPS receiver.
- A vector map of Boston Harbor downloaded from the USGS Coastline Extractor and transferred to a Garmin Geko 301 as a track log map.
- Sky chart shows current and projected GPS satellite overhead positions at your current location and time, or at any other location and time.
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Where's the Demo? James Associates' Return Policy Which GPS receivers work with MacGPS Pro?
DOWNLOAD: MacGPS Pro 7
Native for OS X 10.2.8 or later $49.99
You will be emailed a link to a download site.
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CDROM: MacGPS Pro 7
Native for OS X 10.2.8 or later $59.99
Exactly the same as the download version.
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