MacGPS Pro is interface software that allows 2-way Transfer of Waypoints, Routes and Track Logs between your GPS and your Mac. Also use with your GPS in Real-time.

 

Work on your Mac screen with digital maps and charts that you download, purchase, or scan youself. Plan trips for hiking, biking, sailing, 4-wheeling, geocaching, camping, skiiing, and flying. Capture your adventure afterwards. See where you're at, where you're going and where you've been with MacGPS Pro!

 

 

Here are some of MacGPS Pro's advantages:

 

• Universal Binary for Intel and Power PC Macs.

 

• Supports many Garmin and Magellan handheld and fixed-mount GPS receivers with displays 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, GPX files or KML files, allowing easy data exchange with spreadsheets, databases, text editors, Google Earth, and other mapping programs.

 

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

 

• Print the Map Window complete with multiple maps and overlaid GPS data.

 

• Show speeds along a track log.

 

• Plot and Print Elevation versus Distance Profiles for Routes and Tracklogs.

 

• Use with our MacElevation digital elevation data to know and plot the altitude of any point in that state.

 

• View and Print the GPS Satellite's overhead position for any point on the earth, and for any date and time.

 

• Help Viewer provides detailed step-by-step instructions for various functions.

 

• USA locator maps make it easy to find and open the correct map from our MacTopos DVDs with a simple double-click.

 

• Saves Maps with Waypoint, Route, and Tracklog overlays as PDF files.

 

• 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, 3, 4 and 5 charts, FAA flight sectionals and many other digital maps. Maps in raster image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and PNG are automatically georeferenced if they are in GeoTIFF format, or if they are accompanied by a calibration file.

 

• MacBSB Maptech NOAA Marine Charts show Chart Name and Scale in the Open… window.

 

• A Maptech World Marine chart is included.

 

• NASA's Blue Marble World Topo Map is included.

 

• Displays the Quad Name and the file 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, Polyconic, Sinusoidal, Stereographic, Transverse Mercator, British Grid, Dutch Grid, Irish Grid, New Zealand Grid, Swedish Grid, Taiwan Grid, and Swiss Grid.

 

• User selectable map datum, allowing coordinate conversions to and from 116 different map datums that are commonly used by GPS receivers and scanned maps.

 

• User selectable position format, with latitude and longitude in degree/minute/second, degree/decimal minute or decimal degree format, UTM, MGRS, British, Dutch, German, Irish, New Zealand, Swedish, Swiss, or Taiwan Grid coordinates, or Maidenhead Grid Squares.

 

• Imports GPS data from places like the geocaching.com web site. Imports ".LOC" files and ".GPX" files. Exports GPX waypoint, route and track log files.

 

• Imports and Exports “.kml” files for Google Earth. Show the waypoints, routes and track logs from your GPS receiver on Google Earth. Generate data using Google Earth, and transfer it into your GPS receiver.

 

• 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.

 

• Carefully refined over thirteen years as the premier GPS-to-Mac program, MacGPS Pro is written and maintained by 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, and most updates are free.

 

• We are small enough to listen to you! Readily available telephone or email support is included in the low purchase price.

 

Visit the MacGPS Pro website at http://www.MacGPSPro.com.