Fugawi Global Navigator Product Details

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Features:

• Shows your track and current location on the screen
• Full navigational features: speed, waypoints, routes, distance to go, course to steer, magnetic and true courses
• Built-in Odometers and Trip Odometers to calculate distance traveled
• Geographic Name lookup. Look up a name and click to autoload a map.
• Distance and bearing measurement tool
• Plots points and reads co-ordinates from maps with exceptional precision
• Optimizes the number of track points (based on user-specified tolerance) with Smart Track Reduction
• Loads appropriate map from your own digital map library as you travel
• Automatically converts the GPS datum (WGS 84) to the map datum. In fact, users in Sweden, Finland, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland and New Zealand will find that the conversion in FUGAWI is more accurate than the conversion in their GPS receivers or other mapping programs
• Exports waypoints and tracks with UTM coordinates or latitude/longitude
• Select a chart datum from over 100 possibilities or create your own
• Create a waypoint by clicking, eliminating time-consuming plotting.
• Draw tracks and routes freehand. Or draw free-hand around an area on the map and FUGAWI will accurately calculate the area enclosed
• Select location icons like: boats, planes, cars, hikers or targets that rotate as you change direction. And any icon can mark a waypoint
• Upload waypoints and routes from your PC to your Garmin, Lowrance/Eagle, Micrologic or Magellan GPS receiver for field use or download waypoints, routes and tracks to your PC for analysis or mapping
• Create a Geographical Information System database by clicking on a map location
• You can easily move to an adjacent larger or smaller scale map with a click
• Make a trail map by printing your waypoints, routes and/or tracks on your map
• Display the elevation profile for a track or route
• View maps in 3D. "Fly" around maps for a sensational view.
• Make multiple tracks and routes visible
• There is Night and Dusk vision display
• You can attach sound and pictures to waypoints and automatically play them as you approach.
• Synchronize the computer clock to the GPS clock
• Determine Sunrise and Sunset for any location and date
• Import NMEA log files
• Create User Grids in Transverse Mercator projection.
• Export Waypoints, Routes and Tracks as point, polygon or polyline Shape files (.shp).

System Requirements:

• Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or NT 4.0
• 500Mhz processor or better
• 256mb RAM
• 256 color display or better
• 250mb on hard drive
• Mouse or other pointing device
• Serial port for GPS receiver (WIll also work with PCMCIA serial port emulation, USB with serial adapter USB Details , or Garmin USB units)
• DVD drive for bonus data
• Program provided on CD

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A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Travel & Map Software Review HomePage.

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