TopoFusion gets color imagery
TopoFusion Pro 3.60 has been released, adding color aerial imagery for most of the U.S. Previously, color imagery has been restricted to the beautiful high resolution (0.25 meters/pixel) imagery available for urban areas. This new imagery is lower resolution (1 meter/pixel), but it has most of the country’s national forests, national parks, BLM lands, etc. [...]
Ten reasons TopoFusion rocks
TopoFusion is my go-to program for planning and tracking backcountry adventures. It’s typically the program I turn to first and there is rarely a day that goes by without me using it. Here are ten reasons that TopoFusion rocks:
1. The ability to toggle between USGS topo maps, aerial photos and hybrid imagery
All you have to [...]
National Geographic TOPO! moves to Web – adds aerial photos and trails database
National Geographic TOPO!, a long-standing favorite mapping application, has announced that they will soon be debuting a new Internet-based application. New features will include aerial photos and hybrid imagery that blends aerial photos with contour lines (screen shot above).
Send Google Maps locations to your TomTom
TomTom announced today that it is teaming up with Google Maps so users can
search for and send business addresses directly from the Google Maps’ website to TomTom devices.
According to a press release, Google Maps local search pages have expanded their ‘Send to’ feature with the option ‘Send to GPS’. Here’s a video demo…
Tracking Santa’s visit to your house in Google Earth
Travel By GPS and Geovative Solutions have partnered for some tracking fun on Christmas Eve.
This year you can add a personal placemark so that your residence will show on Santa’s itinerary. Better hurry though, the cut-off for placemark submission is December 23rd!
An obsession with maps
Years ago, long before I got my first GPS, I came across a map of U.S. counties, and I started using it to record my travels. Over the years, that map became tattered and torn — "loved to death" as it were. Paper versions are still available, but it really needed to be replaced by [...]
Transfer Google Maps data to your GPS
EarthNC.com, best known as a source for nautical data, has announced a new service and website — TakItWithMe.com, which allows you to transfer Google Maps data and KML files directly to Garmin receivers, or download them as GPX files. The site utilizes the new Garmin Communicator plugin.
I just gave it a try and it worked [...]
Google Maps: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean
Google may want to take over the world, but they’ve got a ways to go before they’re ready to produce a navigation device. Check out a Google Maps route from Boston to London. Step 9 says "swim across the Atlantic Ocean."
If people will follow their GPS receiver’s directions into a river, are they dumb enough [...]
What mountains are those on the horizon (and how can I get waypoints of them)?
Though I live by the sea, I’m a mountain lover at heart. There’s nothing more exhilarating for me than peak-bagging, and once I’m there, there’s nothing as fun as looking off to the horizon, and figuring out what peaks I’m seeing. Well that just got easier, thanks to a new Google Maps mashup titled Hey, [...]
Live traffic – for free!
Google announced today that they are adding live traffic to Google Maps. Now you can’t use this on your PND, but it is available on some GPS cell phones via Google Mobile.
This has me wondering about Google’s economic model (give stuff away, make a killing on ads) and the coming cell phone GPS vs. PND [...]
