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MacGPSPro

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GPSy Pro

I would like to take this opportunity to highly reccomend MacGPS Pro

It's small, cheap, well-supported, and can import and calibrate a wide variety of file formats and map data. I've used it extensively as a hobbyist, but I know people who have used it in applications as diverse as wood-rat population monitoring, and civil-war archaeology.

I've had a very good experience with MacGPS Pro from James Associates. It's reasonably priced ($40) and you can even find free maps and such. I used it in combination with a Garmin eTrex on a recent trip to the Okavango Delta (Botswana) and it worked just fine. No, I do not work for either company.

Yeah, like I said. Route66 is not that great. DeLorme Street Atlas on the PC was 1000 times better.

You should give MacGPSPro a shot, as it has a lot of GPS functionality and will just about work with ANY map. They only thing it doesn't do is the "locations" database, like the StreetAtlas and Route66 products do... Oh, and of course you are correct, Garmin only supports Windows for "MapSource" maps... We should suggestion bomb them... ;)

I am just curios. What is your "huge disadvantage in software"? Because I am a switcher, and so far I have found 2 things that OSX is lacking in, and only 2.

1. Children's games. We all know that OSX has fewer games than Windows, but Childrens games are much fewer - and most of them that are out barely work at all.

GPS and Mapping. OSX only really has one street mapping software - Route66. Which is merely OK. It is not the most stable, and it doesn't do a whole lot. It won't track GPS histories and such.... There is MacGPSPro, which works good. I have used it for Marine charts, I have yet to import regular maps in, but you can... And there are a few others now as well, and I think Topo! is now out... But Definately OSX, even though it might have GPS/Mapping software - they are less mature than Windows counterparts.

Now having said that, the article missed a couple. Fire is a great IM client, I like it better than Adium. And OSX has CuteFTP and Adobe Acrobat as well...

I have been working full time in OSX for about 2 months now, on a PowerBook 15.GhzG4 with 1GB memory. I am a Java developer, and I use eclipse and other tools. So far I am much happier working in OSX than in Windows. I have been using OSX at home since OSX 10.0.4, and I like it much more than Windows....

There is no GPS software that works on a Mac... Riight...

It's not too hard! I'm interested in this sort of thing too.

You'll need some software to gather your paths from the GPS, and some digital maps to overlay them on.

Some of the popular software is EasyGPS for the PC, and GPSy and MacGPS Pro for the Mac. You can download a free version of each.

The maps are a little harder to come by though. Here is a list to get you started. Some are free, some cost up to about $100 depending on size, scale, and detail. You can scan in your paper maps and calibrate them in some software too.

I think this is really cool - I'd like to have a map of North America and see where all I've been :)