MacGPS Pro™ works with Garmin and Magellan GPS receivers for transferring Waypoints, Routes, Tracklogs, and GPS satellite Almanacs. MacGPS Pro works with almost all brands of GPS receivers for a real-time display of GPS information on a moving map on the Macintosh screen. It allows import of maps from a wide variety of sources. These maps can be viewed with no GPS receiver connected, or used in real-time as a moving-map display of your current position and velocity. They can also be used as a background to graphically create, display and edit Waypoints, Routes and Tracklogs.

MacPGS Pro™

Features

Native on Mac OS X since November 11, 2002. MacGPS Pro is also available in a Classic version for Mac OS 6 through Mac OS 9 for those who love their older PowerPC and 68K Macs.

Supports all Garmin and Magellan handheld and fixed-mount GPS receivers with displays (except those receivers which only have a USB interface) 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. All are saved in editable, tab-delimited text files, allowing easy data exchange with spreadsheets, databases, text editors, and other mapping programs.

Supports almost all brands of GPS receivers, including the new Bluetooth wireless receivers, for a real-time display of GPS information on a moving map on the Macintosh screen. Waypoints, Routes and Tracklogs can be generated and used on the Mac.

Real-Time data (NMEA 0183) capture and/or display. Optional large font display makes for easy viewing at a distance or with a quick glance. The current GPS data can be spoken by MacGPS Pro.

Can collect 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, and 3 charts, and many other digital maps. Maps in raster image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and PNG are automatically georeferenced if they are accompanied by a "world"file, a ".MAP" file (from OziExplorer), or a ".JPR" file (from Fugawi). An example of automatically callibrated maps are the ETopo topographic maps of Canada. Maps that are not automatically georeferenced can be manually calibrated by clicking on a few known points.

Displays the 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, Sinusoidal, Stereographic, Transverse Mercator, British Grid, Irish Grid, New Zealand Grid, Swedish Grid, Taiwan Grid, and Swiss Grid.

User selectable map datum, allowing coordinate conversions to and from the same set of 106 map datums that are used by Garmin GPS receivers. User selectable position format, with latitude and longitude in degree/minute/second, degree/decimal minute or decimal degree format, UTM, MGRS, British, German, Irish, New Zealand, Swedish, Swiss, or Taiwan Grid coordinates, or Maidenhead Grid Squares (used by Ham Radio operators).

Provides useful utilities for importing GPS data from places like the geocaching.com web site. Imports ".LOC" files, ".GPX" files, and USGS Geographic Place Name files.

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.

Use AppleScript to control many MacGPS Pro functions.

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.

For additional information about MacGPS pro please visit their website: www.macgpspro.com

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