GPSy 3.40.1 review

GPSy® is a sophisticated Macintosh GPS communications and GIS mapping program.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 1155K Developer: Global Mapping Systems Buy Now Price: $50.00 Updated: 16 Aug 2006

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GPSy® is a sophisticated Macintosh GPS communications and GIS mapping program. GPSy connects your Macintosh to a broad range of Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational units and has advanced mapping, logging, and data transfer features.

GPSy has extensive support for USGS DRG topo maps, Internet DGPS-IP servers, GPSyLinks to Internet Map Servers, StreetAtlas 4, and IPC's MapFan II, as well as user-scanned maps, Magellan and Lowrance/Eagle data transfer protocols, Sony IPS protocol, Rockwell Zodiac/Tripmate binary protocol support, Trimble TSIP support and much more.

It can display your current position, speed, heading, bearing, and altitude.

GPSy lets you use your GPS unit on your portable Macintosh as a moving map display--showing your current position and speed on a road map of the United States.

Here are some key features of "GPSy":
Compatible with any NMEA-0183, NMEA-0182, Rockwell NavCore V, Rockwell Zodiac Binary, Sony IPS, or Trimble (TSIP) compliant GPS/Loran-C/etc. navigational unit
Unique AppleEvent polling of GPS latitude/longitude/speed/track/UTC-time using AppleScript and GPSyLink
Support for Rockwell NavCore V-based GPS units (DeLorme TrackNGo (TM) and Rockwell NavCard among others) as well as Rockwell Zodiac Binary Protocol (DeLorme Tripmate, among others)
Computer-command control of programmable/bi-directional GPS units such as the Ashtec SCA-12/12S; DeLorme TripmateTM; Starlink Differential GPS units; Garmin GPS 20/20SL/30/31/35/36; and remotely configured GPS units.
Mac System Time Synchronization to GPS/atomic time
Static Position Calculation / SA-cancellation
Text-to-speech of locational and navigational information
World-map locater
SI/Metric and Imperial conversion
GPS Satellite Data; extensive almanac data
Available maritime data
Realtime data logging and playback
PowerPC Native "Fat" binaries
Support for all CTB compliant serial ports, including PowerBook serials; USB-to-Serial Adaptors (Keyspan; etc.); PortShare; PortJuggler; and PC Card GPS units and serial devices.

Limitations:
Unregistered copies will run for 15 minutes with some features disabled.

What's New:
Enhancements
Support for horizontal and vertical scroll wheels, trackpads, etc.

Bug Fixes
Problem downloading waypoints from Garmin Foretrex
Problem downloading waypoints from Garmin GPSMAP 76
"Save Info" checkbox disabled in TFW Info Dialog
Problems calibrating maps in some coordinate systems
Preferences panel sometimes resets serial port setting
Updated email contact info.