Version 5.3
- real-time logging and a moving map; the details depend on which
communication protocol is used, as described above.
- coordinates for the following national grids: British (BNG),
Portuguese (CMP), German (GKK), Irish (ITM), Finnish (both KKJP and
KKJY), and Swedish (SEG); permission to translate code in GPStrans
was granted by Janne Sinkkonen (janne_at_iki.fi) for KKJY and by
Anders Lennartsson (anders.lennartsson_at_sto.foa.se) for SEG.
- several more datums; the current number is now 144.
- balloon help in limited use: for showing the track name and
number of each track point in the map, in answer to a different
suggestion from Urs Forster (forster_at_bluemail.ch), and in the
real-time logging record window (variant for Garmins).
- new
Display on map button for displaying any item not
mapped, in answer to a different suggestion from Harald Stauss
(harald.stauss_at_web.de).
- new
Clear entry in the menu that pops up with a
right-button on a waypoint on the map.
- conversion of tracks into a waypoint taking the averages of the
latitudes, longitudes and altitudes of the track points; this will
be useful for obtaining more precise coordinates for a waypoint by
recording a track with the receiver standing still; implemented in
answer to a suggestion by John Madore (madore_at_physik.hu-berlin.de).
- when asking for a new name after a name with non-acceptable
characters is read, the new name cannot be already in use.
- "single" main window no longer supported.
- support for Garmin receivers: at the time of writing there have
been still no changes in the Garmin specifications document which is
known to be outdated. A problem was detected with a Garmin GPS 12Map
that sends some packets twice. This has been solved by discarding
repeated packets, under control by a flag in the code; thanks are
due to Kyle Grieser (yuf_at_phoenixdsl.com) for all the tests.
- the format for image information files used before version 4.0
is no longer accepted; conversion from it to the present one should
be made with any version between 4.0 and 5.2.
- last but not least, there is now a separate program to convert
the waypoints listed in HTML pages of the MapBlast site into GPSMan
files; at its core is code contributed by Martin Ostermann
(Aachen University of Technology).
GPSMan User Manual
©Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto, 2002
