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GPS Mapping Software
Q. I have recently ordered a Garmin eTrex GPS, and would like to know if anyone can recommend any map software that can be used to setup the routes and waypoints etc?
Neil Toulouse, Stourbridge
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A. go4awalk.com has downloadable GPS Waypoint files - a list is available here.
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A. See the comments from Mark Dixon in the GPS Discussion in the Bunkhouse
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A.I have recently bought a Garmin Geko 201 and along with it bought Fugawi UK GPS Software. The software contains Ordnance Survey Landranger maps of the UK and also place names and elevation data.
I have found it to be extremely easy to use. I can place waypoints on a map of the area I am going to and then upload them directly to my GPS handset. I can also download recorded routes / tracks from my handset into the software.
I recently took my handset on a car journey and recorded the journey. Once home I downloaded the route in to the Fugawi program and compared the route projected onto the map with the route I had taken and found it be extremely accurate.
Tie this in with a laptop and you can connect your handset to the computer and track your position on a moving map in real time. I cannot recommend this software strongly enough. Overall I would have to rate it 10 out of 10.
Darren Young
We shall contact Fugawi UK and see if we can get hold of some to gear test. Watch this space. (Ed)
A. As an avid user of GPS for both leisure and work purposes I have looked for a cost effective (free if possible) piece of software to record my routes and waypoints on. I am currently trying out the freeware version of GPS Utility and can thoroughly recommend it.
You can scan in maps and then import them into the program once you've calibrated the map, an easy process, you can add way point route and tracks. These can then be downloaded to your GPS if you have the relevant cable.
It can be downloaded from here.
Hope that this is of some assistance
David Jones, Winchester
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