Version 6.0
- support for Magellan receivers, contributed by Matt Martin
(matt.martin_at_ieee.org).
- Indonesian language support, contributed by Tri Agus Prayitno
(acuss_at_bk.or.id).
- perspective elevation graphs and enhanced side-view graphs
of routes and tracks, contributed by Alessandro Palmas
(alpalmas_at_tin.it).
- changes in the focus policy and bindings in non-Unix like
systems, contributed by Stefan Heinen
(Stefan.Heinen_at_synopsys.com).
- importation of files in Map&Guide and related software (Falk,
Power Route) export format; based on scripts contributed by Heiko Thede
(Heiko.Thede_at_gmx.de).
- a few new options: default baud rate, disable checking
characters in names and comments, dafault printing command, size of
font used in map labels, default widths for route and track lines on
the map.
- new command line mode (no graphical interface) for GPSMan to be
used by other applications; suggested by Curt Mills
(hacker_at_tc.fluke.com) for use with Xastir.
- changes in the renaming of items with the same name (only
applying to waypoints now) and in the way new names are generated;
based on suggestions by Robert Joop (rj_at_rainbow.in-berlin.de).
- routes can now have non-numeric identifiers.
- routes and tracks have now a field for the width of the lines
used to represent them on the map; suggested by Klaus Ethgen
(Klaus_at_Ethgen.de).
- a track can now be simplified yielding a new track; suggested by
Klaus Ethgen.
- segments in tracks; on a demand by Tomasz R. Surmacz
(ts_at_wroc.apk.net).
- during the animation of a track, the current track point can be
skipped; the scale for animation speed is now exponential;
suggested by Slaven Rezic (rezic_at_onlineoffice.de).
- a group can be now forgotten with all its elements, easying the
task of forgetting large numbers of items.
- hidden information in waypoints and tracks can now be displayed
from their edit/show windows; suggested by Robert Joop.
- distances and azimuths can now be measured on the map; suggested
by Victor
Yip
(vgyip_at_ucdavis.edu).
- new projections:
- Schreiber double projection, and more accurate RD grid;
implemented from a RDNAP document
in an English
translation kindly provided by Rob Buitenhuis
(rob_at_buitenhs.demon.nl).
- Swiss Oblique Mercator and LV03; asked for by Andreas
Hünnebeck
(andreas_at_huennebeck-online.de).
- the Iceland (IcG) and the Netherlands (RDG) grids are now
pre-defined.
- control waypoints can now be defined during geo-referencing.
- subsidiary map background images can be now be placed out of the
grid; suggested by Stefan Heinen.
- real-time logging, Garmin variant:
- travel/navigation interface.
- continuously saving the real-time log to a file for use by
other applications; suggested by Ashutosh Dutta
(dutta_at_cs.columbia.edu).
- support for several new graphics formats if the
Img
library is available; suggested by David Wolfskill
(davidmyatcatwhisker.org) and Stefan Hauser
(etienne_at_imp.ch).
- the font size of labels on the map can now be changed;
suggested by Ronaldo Reis Jr. (chrysopa@insecta.ufv.br)
- printing map and elevation graphs to a PS printer;
suggested by Anto
Veldre
(anto.veldre_at_tllapt.ee)
- importation and/or exportation of data files in
- GTrackMaker format; with the help of Odilon Ferreira Jr
(odilonf_at_estaminas.com.br), on a suggestion by Ronaldo Reis
Jr.
- gd2 format; suggested by Kenneth Ingham
(ingham_at_i-pi.com).
- ESRI Shapefile format if the
gpsmanshp
library is
available.
- new symbols added for geocache and geocache found; images for
them and for border kindly provided by Robert Joop.
- better support for the Garmin Protocol Capability protocol,
thanks to tests by Klaus Ethgen.
- explicit support for Garmin receivers: eMap version >2.7
(tests by Stefan Hauser), GPSMAP 76 (tests by Herbert
Tammer, H.E.Tammer_at_DNB.NL), GPS 76 (tests by Brice-Olivier
Demory, brice-olivier.demory_at_epfl.ch), GPS 72 (tests by
Ashutosh Dutta), GPSMAP 76S (tests by Klaus Ethgen).
GPSMan User Manual
©Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt
, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto, 2003