Does anyone know of any web sites where you can obtain way points for GPS use? Thanks a bunch!
Dennis
CD26D
truettdc@frontiernet.net
Finding Waypoints on the WEB?
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Tom
Re: Finding Waypoints on the WEB?
Dennis, I used to have this website in memory, but in changing ISPs it got lost. One site that probably has them but is so huge I didn't have time to go through all the listings is a site that has a complex address but is easy to access. Just go to the internet and type inDennis Truett wrote: Does anyone know of any web sites where you can obtain way points for GPS use? Thanks a bunch!
Dennis
CD26D
"The mother of all maritime links"
This is a very extensive listing of all kinds of things maritime including anchoring requirements, all the boat builders in the U.S., GPS locations of places to fish in Louisiana, and everything you can think of like that.
You didn't say what part of the world you're located but these days the guidebooks for an area all have them listed in the back as well. Here on the West coast they're in the flip charts and "Cruising the Pacific Coast". Maybe someone will come behind me with the exact address for you, I know they're on line also. Hope this helps in the meantime.
TomCambria@mindspring.com
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Ryan Turner
Here's the link
to the Mother of All Maritime Links
Alternatively, you can just get them off the charts for the areas your planning on cruising. That way you know they're right.
rturnertec@aol.com
Alternatively, you can just get them off the charts for the areas your planning on cruising. That way you know they're right.
rturnertec@aol.com
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Dale Weston
Re: Finding Waypoints on the WEB?
Your question got my interest.
I decided that mapping software was the way to go. I wanted to point and click at waypoints I wanted, and then download them to my GPS. Here's my rainy day synopsis:
Equipment: laptop (Toshiba 2105cds), a Garmin 48, the Fugawi "moving map software for GPS receivers", and a data cable.
I looked at all the literature and all the sites for nav software. I visited two stores that had setups to practice on. As a longtime admirer of the Fugawi tribe and there immortal motto. . . "We're the Fugawi!??" . . . actually, they (http://www.fugawi.com/) responded first to inquiries and have a very solid product. For me, the Fugawi software thinks like I do and includes excellent charts for trip planning with no further purchases required. The discount price for this software from The GPS Store (http://thegpsstore.com/) was $85.00 and includes 3 CDs, the software program, the marine charts, and the USA street maps. I load the marine chart CD to lay out waypoints for a trip. This set of waypoints can then be downloaded into my GPS. The software provides real time tracking on the computer screen, but I'm not keeping the computer running all the time. A pleasant surprise was the USA streets CD. I have found every little street in the country. I hadn't don't plan on using this setup in my car, but it's totally feasible. (Oh, yes, with my street CD installed, my trips that I planned on the nautical charts still show up. . .
In the meantime, a great cheap source for 20,000 or so waypoints is one of the old LORAN guides. I got a 1990 edition of Rod Stebbins Coastal Loran Coordinates Vol 1 Maine to Texas for about $10 at a discount book store. Also on this Cape dory site is a light list that includes useful waypoints.
Not able to leave well enough alone, I plugged 'waypoints for GPS' into Altavista and came up with beaucoup hits but no just downloadable listings. One thing is clear, the backpackers have really jumped on GPS waypoints. Some sites of cruising interest include:
http://www.waypoint.org/gps2-water.html --This site appears to be an incipient database input/collection point - some
potential for CD folks with GPS waypoint documentation desires to create a place to look up places of interest.
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1093/waypoints.html - home page for a number of sites, including
http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi -- A lat / long lookup for any address in the country -- to more decimal places than I care to imagine (big brother not only knows the lat / long of my house, he probably knows where the commode is in the second bathroom).
http://www.pointsystemsinc.com/marine/free.html --a commercial site but with some teaser free downloads that could be useful (tides and currents).
http://www.marinersguide.com/regions/ch ... index.html -- some really useful planning and current weather data for many cruising regions.
majortest@earthlink.net
I decided that mapping software was the way to go. I wanted to point and click at waypoints I wanted, and then download them to my GPS. Here's my rainy day synopsis:
Equipment: laptop (Toshiba 2105cds), a Garmin 48, the Fugawi "moving map software for GPS receivers", and a data cable.
I looked at all the literature and all the sites for nav software. I visited two stores that had setups to practice on. As a longtime admirer of the Fugawi tribe and there immortal motto. . . "We're the Fugawi!??" . . . actually, they (http://www.fugawi.com/) responded first to inquiries and have a very solid product. For me, the Fugawi software thinks like I do and includes excellent charts for trip planning with no further purchases required. The discount price for this software from The GPS Store (http://thegpsstore.com/) was $85.00 and includes 3 CDs, the software program, the marine charts, and the USA street maps. I load the marine chart CD to lay out waypoints for a trip. This set of waypoints can then be downloaded into my GPS. The software provides real time tracking on the computer screen, but I'm not keeping the computer running all the time. A pleasant surprise was the USA streets CD. I have found every little street in the country. I hadn't don't plan on using this setup in my car, but it's totally feasible. (Oh, yes, with my street CD installed, my trips that I planned on the nautical charts still show up. . .
In the meantime, a great cheap source for 20,000 or so waypoints is one of the old LORAN guides. I got a 1990 edition of Rod Stebbins Coastal Loran Coordinates Vol 1 Maine to Texas for about $10 at a discount book store. Also on this Cape dory site is a light list that includes useful waypoints.
Not able to leave well enough alone, I plugged 'waypoints for GPS' into Altavista and came up with beaucoup hits but no just downloadable listings. One thing is clear, the backpackers have really jumped on GPS waypoints. Some sites of cruising interest include:
http://www.waypoint.org/gps2-water.html --This site appears to be an incipient database input/collection point - some
potential for CD folks with GPS waypoint documentation desires to create a place to look up places of interest.
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1093/waypoints.html - home page for a number of sites, including
http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi -- A lat / long lookup for any address in the country -- to more decimal places than I care to imagine (big brother not only knows the lat / long of my house, he probably knows where the commode is in the second bathroom).
http://www.pointsystemsinc.com/marine/free.html --a commercial site but with some teaser free downloads that could be useful (tides and currents).
http://www.marinersguide.com/regions/ch ... index.html -- some really useful planning and current weather data for many cruising regions.
majortest@earthlink.net
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Dennis Truett
Thanks everyone!
Thanks guys for taking the time to give such detailed relies!
Dennis
CD26D
truettdc@frontiernet.net
Dennis
CD26D
Ryan Turner wrote: to the Mother of All Maritime Links
Alternatively, you can just get them off the charts for the areas your planning on cruising. That way you know they're right.
truettdc@frontiernet.net