GPS fun

Wednesday January 5th 2005 11:08 AM PST

I got a Keyspan adapter for my GPS unit so that i could plug it into my Mac. I dug around for awhile and finally found a shareware app that would download all the track data from the unit. But all i could find was old OS9 apps. I got a little frustrated finding that there are not many good apps out there under $300 that will just plot map data. How hard can it be? All you have to do is a little math, and plot to a image file. So a few hours of work, and i've built a Flash app that will take the track and waypoint data and plot it. Nothing huge, but i'm looking back at director now. I figure i can actually build an OSX app that will interface using the GARMIN protocol and download the data. Then i can throw it over to flash to plot. Now i just need to align bitmaps under the waypoint plots. Even if i can't do that very well, i can still plot my tracks in vector, and have nice little maps i've made myself.