GPS Visualizer: GPS Links

GPS Links

Sites & programs that use GPS Visualizer

GPS Coordinate Grabber: This utility allows you to grab (or "scrape") GPS coordinates from any Web page.
GPS Games: Various games -- Geodashing, GeoGolf, etc. -- in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet.
GPS-Touren.ch (auf Deutsch): Descriptions, photos, and maps of biking routes in Switzerland.
Koords: a Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X.4 that performs simple coordinate conversions.
TraceGPS (en français): A database of French trails of all types: hiking, biking, kayaking, equestrian, etc.
Utagawa VTT (en français): A database of hundreds of mountain biking trail maps and profiles, mostly in France.

GPS software (freeware)

ACME Mapper: A great way to find the coordinates of single points using an interactive Web-based interface. Also check out ACME's Google Planimeter, which can measure areas using a point-and-click interface.
Cetus GPS: By Kjeld Jensen. A fantastic and free program for Palm OS that describes itself (and rightly so) as the "Swiss Army Knife of GPS tracking and data collection." Unfortunately, it doesn't do maps (but that's what GPS Visualizer is for).
cotoGPS: By Thomas Runge. Another free Palm OS application for recording GPS data; includes area calculation functions.
FlightTrack: By Gautier Taravella. Free 3-D terrain visualization software for Mac OS X (like Wissenbach Map3D, it requires DEM data files); geared mostly toward pilots.
GPSBabel: By Robert Lipe et al. Claims to "flatten the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us," and indeed, it supports MANY file formats and can connect to your Garmin or Magellan device. Available for Windows and Unix, including Mac OS X.
GPSPhotoLinker: By Jeffrey J. Early. For Mac OS X; will read time-stamped trackpoints and waypoints from a GPX file, and then automatically embed (geotag) the coordinates in the EXIF data of your time-stamped digital photos.
GPS TrackData: By Lars Jakobsen. A Windows utility for converting Cetus .pdb files to other formats, including DXF (Drawing Interchange Format).
MyGPS: By Paolo Faure Ragani. A track/waypoint visualizer for Windows, with GPX compatibility and the ability to use scanned maps.
Wissenbach Map3D: By Dave Wissenbach. A free Windows application for visualizing tracks in 3-D; it requires that you know how to download and manage Digital Elevation Model data files, but the output is very impressive if you know what you're doing.

GPS software (commercial/shareware)

ExpertGPS: Track analysis/mapping software for Windows.
GpsGate: Allows you to generate log files from a GPS connected to a PocketPC or Windows laptop, even while the GPS is being used for other applications.
GPS Pilot: A Palm OS tracking program for use with scanned maps.
OziExplorer: Track analysis/mapping software for Windows.
MacGPS Pro: Software to connect your Mac to almost any Garmin or Magellan GPS receiver; supports GPX import/export.
PathAway: A feature-packed GPS tracking program for Palm OS which supports scanned and downloaded maps.
RoboGEO: Windows software that uses your GPS tracklogs to georeference your time-stamped digital photos -- latitude and longitude are inserted into the photos' EXIF data.
TerraBrowser: Mac OS X program for viewing GPX files or live GPS data on USGS topo maps & aerial photos.

Information about GPS

GPSInformation.net: Joe Mehaffey's overwhelmingly large collection of on-line GPS links and information.
All About GPS: An excellent Shockwave-based tutorial on exactly how GPS receivers work.
Coordinate Systems Overview: More than you ever wanted to know about why it sometimes seems that every person on earth has a different way of marking latitude and longitude.
GPX: the GPS eXchange Format: If everyone used GPX -- a form of XML designed for geographic data -- we wouldn't need things like GPSBabel!
GPS Nuts: A compilation of practical guides, tips, tricks, and reviews from a community of GPS users.

More GPS-related sites

Cockpit & Small Boat GPS: "A practical guide to GPS navigation" for airplane pilots and small boat operators.
EveryTrail: Upload GPS data you recorded while out on the trail and add your photos and notes, to create a visual record of your outdoor activities.
Geocaching.com: The largest site for "geocaching," a worldwide scavenger hunt for GPS geeks.
Navicache: An alternative geocaching site.
OgleEarth: A blog with news about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth.
Running & Biking with GPS: Information on using the Garmin Forerunner series and other fitness/training-oriented GPS devices.
Travel by GPS: Download tracks & waypoints from famous (and not-so-famous) locations around the world.

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