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GPSVIEW Software
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Features
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Graphically show GPS position on Computer Screen
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Download and view data from Garmin GPS receiver
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Track and Plot GPS positions from any GPS receiver with standard message |
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Allows user defined icons and text |
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Draw lines, arcs, and circles |
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Complete map of the world available |
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Can overlay BMP maps |
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Navigation
1 - Using any GPS Receiver with message output
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2 - Using a Garmin GPS Receiver for Navigation, then downloading Waypoints and Tracks into GpsView.
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Geography
The free NOAA data including World Coastlines, World Rivers, Country and State boundaries is on a DVD. The data is divided in 5 detail levels, each of which consists of 1 to thousands of overlapping files.
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The World Button on the ToolBar is down a file is automatically
loaded according to the screen center position and the Current
Scale (Screen Width).
If the [US80k] button is also down, there is one more level of detail for US coasts, Waterways and major lakes.
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Hundreds of thousands of color points, also divided into overlapping files, have been created to enable colors when the Color Button is down.
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In GpsView objects that can be added to the World Map are called Icons. 16 different types of Icons can be loaded or entered manually, then saved and reloaded.
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For example one can add Country names, Town names, or more details to the basic Map.
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The 16 Icons include: |
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Line, Wide Line, Dash Line, Rock, Circle, Arc, Box, Point, Text |
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Buoy, Lighthouse, Obstruction, Wreck (for boat navigation) |
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Flag, Geophone, Recorder (for Seismic work) |
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Each Icon can have one of 16 colors |
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Hurricane Tracking
One can enter manually successive Hurricane positions then compute distances, Zoom In and Out.
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Distances are Arc of Great Circle distances(shortest distance over the globe between 2 points).
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For example the Hurricane Strength Area can be drawn as a Red circle of the proper radius, and Tropical Storm strength area with a yellow circle of the proper radius.
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Personal Mapping
One can use a Garmin GPS Receiver to store points at selected intervals as he is moving, and then download the data as a Line Icon.
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Also it is possible to acquire the data directly into GpsView with a notebook computer, then save the data as a SEG P1 file and reload points as a selected Icon.
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The Icons can also be entered manually when the [IconEdit] button is down.
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Finally a scanned BMP Map can be loaded then "tagged". The tagging process consists of letting the program know the Latitude and Longitude of 2 points as spread as possible vertically and horizontally. |
After Tagging the program switches into a Linear Mode(flat earth) and it is possible to overlay the BMP file with lines that will stay when the BMP is turned off. |
Only one BMP can be loaded at a time and the Bmp mode is more limited(Planisphere), but the BMP can be zoomed in and out to some extend. |
Details
GpsView is initially a "Sinusoidal projection" of an empty world defined by Geographic Coordinates:
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Latitude -89.999999 to +89.999999 degrees ( - for South Hemisphere, + for North)
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Longitude - 180 degrees to +180 degrees ( - for West, + for East) |
Background data (Icons) can be loaded as vector data(successive points defining line segments).
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A BMP file can also be loaded (Raster data or bit map) for local or temporary work.
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The program allows to Zoom In and Out and to move anywhere on the world.
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When the GpsView Maps are available(on a DVD), and enabled, the world shows.
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The program was written for Seismic work, with people loading their own data, but it now allows
other users, particularly with GPS receivers, to do a lot more.
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Downloads:
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