+planetrobert Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 This is the program to have on a mac. No, it does not autoroute or any of that fancy directions stuff. What it does though is AMAZING. I went out today caching and dropped the laptop in the passenger seat... wait, let me start at the beginning... earlier in the day. So I started out my caching day as I used to do in the past, but with a new twist. I love planning out my route before I ever leave the house. So I opened the maps for the local area and my unfound gpx file. I then clicked from cache to cache planning my route. Enough with the preflight talk. I went driving around town snagging caches this afternoon and the ability to have a live map was awesome. I plan to road trip this app over winter break but based on this short trip out it is great. All I need now is a mac gpx reader app for cache pages... ...still got to have the palm for cache pages in the field. For $50 this was the greatest mapping app I have found. You can load your own maps or buy maps or even load treasure maps. Very cool program. I of course use a second gps to plug into the computer as unpluging at every cache would suck. Quote Link to comment
+naviguesser74 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 convert the gpx file to an html file using GPSVisualizer. Then "find" the cache info using the GCXXXX title gleaned from your MacGPS Pro map. Quote Link to comment
+alnpd Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Am i missing the boat? I just use Mac GPS Pro to transfer waypoints to my Garmin 60cs. Seems the program does a heckuva lot more. Any source for maps? I have the Garmin map but no Mac compatability as of yet. Hoping to learn a little something! Quote Link to comment
+naviguesser74 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I am using MacGPS Pro and its maps to view all the cache locations on the maps. Those locations are also in a Palm with a BT GPSr to take into the field. But I like seeing them on the map, planning the trip, reading the clue and notes, etc, on the Mac first. Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 convert the gpx file to an html file using GPSVisualizer. Then "find" the cache info using the GCXXXX title gleaned from your MacGPS Pro map. yeah, i convert the gpx to text and html for the offline times. I use the palm for when not in the truck. Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Am i missing the boat? I just use Mac GPS Pro to transfer waypoints to my Garmin 60cs. Seems the program does a heckuva lot more. Any source for maps? I have the Garmin map but no Mac compatability as of yet. Hoping to learn a little something! you can get maps here... http://libremap.org/data/ which are not imported to the right format yet, but are calibrated. or you can buy maps for cheap from macgpspro.com which are already calibrated and imported. Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Am i missing the boat? I just use Mac GPS Pro to transfer waypoints to my Garmin 60cs. Seems the program does a heckuva lot more. Any source for maps? I have the Garmin map but no Mac compatability as of yet. Hoping to learn a little something! you can get maps here... http://libremap.org/data/ which are not imported to the right format yet, but are calibrated. or you can buy maps for cheap from macgpspro.com which are already calibrated and imported. Quote Link to comment
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