Re: Beginner Needs Mapping Help
From: Dale DePriest (Dale_at_gpsinformation.het)
Date: 09/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:56:08 -0700
Guinness Mann wrote:
> Tom H. wrote:
>
>> I agree with Mark about the use of Mapsource for most of what you want to
>> do. In addition I would suggest that you learn all the capabilities of
>> Mapsource to see what it lacks that you would like to do. There is a
>> lot of
>> freeware out there that can do other things like overlay tracks on 3D
>> surfaces etc. Then you can get a better understanding of the features
>> that
>> have the most meaning for you and either continue with the free
>> applications
>> or buy commercial software that does more of what you want than the free
>> products do.
>
>
> Thank you for your comments, Tom.
>
> I think I am pretty well acquainted with Mapsource, and it is passably
> good for its intended purpose, and downright brilliant for general map
> lookup and browsing. See my comments to Mark Illingworth for further
> amplification.
>
> What I'm looking for, now, though is some all-in-one product, sort of, I
> guess, the Microsoft Works version of GPS/mapping software, that I can
> use while I continue to read these newsgroups and download and try out
> the various free/shareware products that are mentioned here.
>
> I thought that Maptech Terrain Navigator might be the one, but no one
> has chimed in about it, so now I don't know...
>
> -- Rick
Maptech is good if you want to overlay data on a raster image map. They
have very high resolution quality copies of DRG maps and good support
for importing data from a GPS. But they are not an all in one program
any more than Mapsource is.
Dale
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