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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1
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On the Water
Fugawi also sells Marine ENC for marine navigation. The package provides a complete set of Navionics or NOAA charts, including depth soundings, navigational aids, hazards, restricted zones, maritime place names and landmarks. The charts are available for all major waterways throughout North America, South America, Central […]
Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1(6)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1
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Figure 10: An example track following along a street.
Then, once you’ve gone as far as you want, you can ask Global Navigator to run through through the route backwards and voila, you’re back at your starting point
On the Road
The Canada Data Pack which comes with the software […]
Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1(5)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1
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Be careful how much you zoom in, however, since the maps are raster versions and if you get in too close, they will become pixelized beyond usefulness.
Figure 8: Excessive zooming in can render the map useless, since the graphics are not ’scaled’ but simply bitmap pictures of the […]
Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1(4)
Monday, May 14th, 2007Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1
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Fugawi on the PPC
Once you have some maps downloaded to your PPC, you’re ready to roll. As mentioned earlier, functionality on the PPC is limited to a subset of the PC-based version.
Figure 5: Main screen of Global Navigator with a local topographic map loaded.
As you can see […]
Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1(3)
Monday, May 14th, 2007Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1
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Installing Maps
Unfortunately, installing maps to the PPC is a little cumbersome, since, again, they must be installed from the PC-based program. Northstar, the vendor/manufacturer in Canada, provides complete coverage of Canada using NRC maps at 1:250,000 (for an entire province) and 1:50,000 for specific sections. 1:50,000 is OK […]