NaviGadget

Very handy web based GPS software does it all

Mar 3, 2006 fitness, gps navigation, software

GPS Visualizer is a free web based software that lets you create maps and profiles from GPS data, street addresses, or simple coordinates. You can use it to see where you’ve been, plan where you’re going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, events, customers, real estate, etc.).

The site also has a calculator section that can help you calculate the great circle distance between two points, draw a direct route between airports, draw range rings around a point, and convert degrees/minutes/seconds (or degrees/minutes) to decimal degrees. You should check it out.

GPS Visualizer can read data files from many different sources: GPX, OziExplorer, Geocaching.com (.loc), IGC sailplane logs, Garmin Forerunner (.xml/.hst), Timex Trainer (v1.3+), Cetus GPS, PathAway, cotoGPS, CompeGPS, TomTom (.pgl), IGN Rando (.rdn), Emtac Trine, Suunto X9/X9i (.sdf), NetStumbler/WiFiFoFum, and of course tab-delimited or comma-separated text. You can also enter waypoint data or street addresses manually, if you just need to plot a few points.

GPS Visualizer can draw maps in SVG, JPEG/PNG, and Google Maps format, and can also create map overlays and KML files for Google Earth. For non-Google maps, JPEGs are easier to deal with, but SVGs are interactive — to view them, make sure you’ve installed Adobe’s free SVG Viewer plug-in. (NOTE: if you’re using Mozilla or Firefox for Windows, you’ll need to download the latest beta version of the plug-in.)