Publisher's Description
From James Associates:
MacGPS Pro is Mac software for communicating with GPS Receivers and viewing your position on moving digital maps and nautical charts. These images can be viewed with no GPS receiver connected or used in real-time as a moving-map display of your current position and velocity.
- It imports maps from a wide variety of sources in the following formats: TIFF (TIF), JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PICT, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), PDF, and ECW.
- It manually calibrates and imports maps that you scan yourself.
- It imports nautical charts in Maptech BSB (v.1, v.2, v.3, v.4, v.5) format.
- It supports NMEA 0183 input from all serial port, Bluetooth, and USGlobalSat USB receivers.
- It graphically generates and edits Waypoints, Routes, and Tracks for two-way transfer between your Mac and many Garmin and Magellan Serial Port and USB Receivers.
- It exchanges data with Google Earth.
- It imports Waypoints from Geocaching files.
- It imports and exports Waypoints, Routes, and Tracks in the GPX interchange format used by other GPS programs.
- It shows elevation profiles.
- It prints maps.
What's new in this version:
- Generate Waypoints for your favorite geotagged photos.
- Create a "Go To" Waypoint and Navigate to it in Real-Time.
- View UTM grid line labels in the Map Window.
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All versions:
3.9 starsout of 33 votes
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Current version:
2.0 starsout of 1 votes
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"Overly complex product with tough learning curve"
Version: MacGPS Pro 9.2
Pros
I will write about that once I can get it to run properly.
Cons
I hike extensively and have used a handheld Garmin GPS for many years. The out-of-the box Garmin interface has been fine, but limiting. I recently shifted from PC to iPhone/Mac. After reading the MacGPSPro product promotional material on-line, I downloaded it to my MacBook Pro, in order to interface with my GPS. Should have read the reviews. A common theme is that this product is complex and doesn't adhere to Apple's (intuitive & wildly successful) user interface guidelines. I don't buy the argument that it's broad capabilities offset the complexity. Today's developers package much more complex capabilities in very elegant interface designs. Simplify it.
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Terrible user interface
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