Macintosh Software

[+eaglesong]

I know that this has been discussed in the past because it let me to finding the program "MacSimpleGPS." However, what I want is a program that will allow me to show all of my waypoints at once in a graphic comparison.

 

I basically want to either show them all at once on a map or even just on a blank background as long as they are positioned relatively to one another. This would be of immense help in planning geocaching outings as I could put in a whole set of caches I've not yet found and see which are clustered together.

 

I've found nothing on the macintosh ("Classic" operating system (os 8 an 9)...I HATE the X operating system with a passion) that will allow me to do this.

 

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.

[+JohnnyVegas]

The National geographic state topo maps are offered in a Mac version. These are scaned USGS topo maps. Try their web site TOPO.com

[+planetrobert]

also a cheap option is terrabrowser... sorry i don't have the link... it displays wpts over either topo or arial photos at varying resolutions... $10 shareware

[+Treasure Bandits]

Try MagWayMan. It's still in beta, but it will:

• Read .GPX and.LOC files that are dropped onto it,
  
• Display the waypoints on a map, even a webmap (control-click on the waypoint to get a popup for available maps)
  
• Will display both topo and aerial webmaps,
  
• will measure distances on the map by option-dragging,
  
• will run under os9 (with carbonlib installed)
  

If you try it, let me know, good or bad.

 

craig

 

p.s. the web server is a little shaky right now. (power outages). if you can't get there right away, try, try again.

 

A backup of the site can be found here.

Edited October 29, 2004 by Treasure Bandits

[Parsa]

What you need is GPSy. It's great and they've been slow in getting an OSX native version out (it does run under Classic).

GPSy is a DRG reader. That is, it opens huge scanned digital topographic maps. I've found free maps online for almost every state, but sometimes it takes some searching to find the right state GIS web site. I found someone who has put links to most of them here:

http://www.doylesdartden.com/gis/

 

You can plot all your waypoints on any calibrated map (not just topo maps). There are directions for manual calibration, so you could even plot waypoints on a geologic map if you wanted to.

 

GPSy also lets you connect to a computer for real-time tracking of your position on the topo maps.

 

http://www.gpsy.com/

[+Treasure Bandits]

OK, the web server for MagWayMan is back up. (DSLAN configuration error...)

 

update... nevermind, my whole office subnet went down 10 minutes after this post. Grr!

 

another update... and now it's back up.

Edited November 3, 2004 by Treasure Bandits

[+roogie]

This may be a repost but if you've not already, sign the petition on GPScity.com so they will keep asking manufacturers to include Macintosh support.

 

Click here to visit GPScity's petition page!

 

roog