>> As a follow on, I have been using Fugawi, Delorme and Waypoint for many of those tasks. Fugawi allows you to load any scanned map. I recently used it on a commercial airline trip from Miami to Puerto Rico using a marine chart of the area and had a fascinating time identifying all the nameless islands I've seen so many times. >> Another GPS program that uses scanned maps, as well as USGS DRG digitized maps, is OziExplorer. It is shareware, and registration is less than the cost of Fugawi (US$65 vs. US$95). Also, it has some features that Fugawi lacks, though at present Fugawi is the only one of the two that can load BSB digitized marine charts. I downloaded OziExplorer yesterday and installed it this morning. So far, I've just had a quick look at it, but it looks pretty complete. I plan to use it for kayaking the Ontario shore of Lake Superior, for which no digitized maps are commercially available. To download the shareware version of OziExplorer 3.70, go to http://www.powerup.com.au/~lornew/oziexp.html. For information about Fugawi, see http://www.fugawi.com/. For a feature comparison between the two, see http://joe.mehaffey.com/ozi-fug2.txt. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 07:51:29 PDT
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