[GPS Software Hub] Free 'OkMap' for Outdoor GPS Activities

[Somnath Bhowmick]

OkMap is a free GPS software for many outdoor GPS activities.

OkMap help you to

• Calibrate vectorial and raster maps with different types of cartographic projections
• Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon vector
• Display simultaneously raster maps and vectorial data
• Import digital vectorial data based on different types of cartographic projections
• Use calibrated maps and vectorial data as background for navigation
• Create and represent on maps (raster and vectorial): waypoints, routes and tracks
• Use digital terrain models to display the elevation of any point on the map
• Load and save waypoints, routes and tracks in GPX format
• Upload and download waypoints, routes and tracks to and from a GPS device
• Navigate in real time via a GPS device through NMEA protocol
• Display Google Earth and Google Maps in current map location
• Exchange data with Google Earth and view your map in 3D
• Exchange data with GpsGate.Com server
• Receive via socket customized navigation data from remote GPS devices
• Send via socket the current position to an OkMap remote server
• Make conversions between different types of coordinates, datums, formats, etc.
• Use a handy calculator for your calculations

...and many more things.

Yuo can use OkMap (free GPS software) for the following outdoor GPS activities:

Trekking Off road Sailing Mountain bike Hunting and fishing Finding mushrooms Soft air Geocaching

...an many others.

Supported languages:
· English
· Italian

Supported formats:
· Images: ecw, bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif and many others
· Maps drg: gfw, jgw, pgw, tfw, bpw
· Vector data: shp, dbf (Esri shape file); dcw (Digital Chart of World)
· GPS data: gpx (GPS Exchange Format); kml (Keyhole Markup Language); wpt, plt, rte (OziExplorer); and many others formats thanks to the software GpsBabel
· DEM data (digital earth model): hgt (SRTM-1 and SRTM-3)

Supported GPS devices:
· Upload/download through GpsBabel: Garmin and Magellan
· NMEA navigation: all GPS devices that support Nmea protocol

Download Options

· Read the contract for the end user.
· Download now OkMap version 5.1.0
· Download only help document (under development).

Prerequisites hardware:
· IBM-compatibile PC with 400 Mhz or higher processor
· 128 Mb RAM minimum
· 40 Mb of free hard drive space

Prerequisites software:
· Microsoft Windows XP or higher
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
· Microsoft Visual J# 2.0

This software uses the open source libraries:
· FreeImage
· GpsBabel

Source: okmap.it

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Posted By Somnath Bhowmick to GPS Software Hub at 8/11/2008 08:26:00 AM