TinAbbey Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) What is the PC software of your choice? I have pretty much only used Easy GPS. Are there other free programs that work better or have better features. I know geocaching.com has a resource page for software. I don't want to download everyone i can find. What do you find is the best free one? Edited March 8, 2010 by TinAbbey Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Depends on which unit you are using a little bit. It certainly isn't free but GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) is low cost and just full of useful features. Quote Link to comment
+Indotguy Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 GSAK is my preferred for waypoint editing and transferring. For PC mapping I use Global Mapper. Lots of maps and shapefiles available and it allows the exporting of vector data in many formats (GPX, USR, SHP, etc). Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 +1 for GSAK. Apart from the Premium membership to get PQ files at gc.com, the best $30 I've spent on the hobby to date. It's a "free trial" sort of thing, but starts adding 1 second to the nag screen for each day you use it unless you go ahead and register. www.gsak.net Quote Link to comment
+Damin69 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 +2 On GSAK. Give it a try its free to use as long as you would like but as mentioned the NAG screen stays up longer and longer after the 20 day free trial. But after about day 15 I was sold on it and bought it myself. It is worth every penny. Quote Link to comment
GermanSailor Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 EasyGPS GSAK Greasemonkey AddOns: - GCVote - GCVipList - GC Bag-o-tricks Webupdater GPS TrackAnalyse GermanSailor Quote Link to comment
+moose61 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 GSAK for organizing GPX files, generate HTML files to get the listings organized on the PDA and generating nice cache statistics pages. Mapsource (free with Garmin GPS) POI Loader GCT for calculation of WP's and decription (only in Dutch language) Quote Link to comment
+Redwoods Mtn Biker Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 USAPhotoMaps is a good free program. TopoFusion has a free version, but watch out. It's so good, you'll pony up cold hard cash for the real thing. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 gczii for the win . They run that on a PC down there in Texas, do they? Quote Link to comment
+facade66 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 EasyGPS to download from the Vista GPSUtility to transfer google earth kmz paths to the Vista GPSBabel to convert between file types I bought and paid for GSAK, but I hardly use it. Quote Link to comment
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