Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:25:07 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] RE: Help with Fugawi 3
In a message dated 2/16/03 10:12:43 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dion, > > I'm curious about what the differences are between Fugawi and other mapping > software. I'm using Delorme Street Atlas now with a Garmin EMap GPS, and > have had Microsoft Streets, and Rand McNally in the past. Is Fugawi better > for mapping outside of the USA? Or what other things made you decide on it? > > Thanks, > > Matt I'm still fumbling with Fugawi, but it is a different breed than Streets, Street Atlas, etc. It doesn't do routing, so for driving around the city/state/country and getting directions from the PC it's not the hottest setup. It does show position with a GPS connected, and the Steets add-in is very accurate and detailed. What Fugawi does is let you use almost any map image (from a scanner, screen dump, bmp file,...) as a GPS base map. It has a mode called Map Calibration wherein you select three points on your source map for which you have coordinates. Once calibrated, the map can be saved and then used for GPS positioning. Pretty cool. Anke Otto uses this software a lot for diving - she can expound on the virtues better than I. Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
