jenharvy
February 20th, 2010, 02:33 AM
Hello,
I am a helicopter pilot and I need some GPS software to use with my laptop that will allow me to download a track into it so I can fly that track. An aviation GPS will not allow me to easily enter a lot of points. It is very tedious. Some of these tracks consist of thousands of individual points and are in a spreadsheet for, or .CSV file. I also want the ability to store a GPS position by pressing one button on the laptop and then download these positions into a .CSV file. I have tried different programs but all of them reguire a lot of pointing and clicking and typing to save one position. That's a lot to do in a shaking helicopter.
I have made my own program in VB that displays the GPS position and allows me to save them at a touch of a button and it works very well but I have not been able to figure out how to make a moving map display so I can follow a preloaded track.
If anyone knows of a program that will do all of this I would scap my little program and use it. Or any info on how to integrate maps into my program would be helpful too. In the mean time I will continue to read this site and probably learn a great deal about GPS.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I am a helicopter pilot and I need some GPS software to use with my laptop that will allow me to download a track into it so I can fly that track. An aviation GPS will not allow me to easily enter a lot of points. It is very tedious. Some of these tracks consist of thousands of individual points and are in a spreadsheet for, or .CSV file. I also want the ability to store a GPS position by pressing one button on the laptop and then download these positions into a .CSV file. I have tried different programs but all of them reguire a lot of pointing and clicking and typing to save one position. That's a lot to do in a shaking helicopter.
I have made my own program in VB that displays the GPS position and allows me to save them at a touch of a button and it works very well but I have not been able to figure out how to make a moving map display so I can follow a preloaded track.
If anyone knows of a program that will do all of this I would scap my little program and use it. Or any info on how to integrate maps into my program would be helpful too. In the mean time I will continue to read this site and probably learn a great deal about GPS.
Any help would be much appreciated.