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Re: GPS

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• Subject: [mg114820] Re: GPS
• From: Tom <tidetabletom at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:49:35 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 17, 1:27 am, Mark McClure <mcmcc... at unca.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Tom <tidetable... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,  I just got a GPS unit,  and was amazed to see this incredible
> > BLOG posting...
> >http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/04/17/mapping-gps-data/
>
> > However,   it uses a map service that I don't believe is available in
> > Canada.
> > ...
> > I would appreciate ANY input and ideas to try to generate something
> > similar for data in Canada.
>
> I wrote a package several years ago that converts GPX files to Google Maps:http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/GoogleMaps/GPXToGoogleMap/
>
> It works fine with Mathematica versions 5.1-8.0.  Of course, it gets
> easier to work with geo-spatial data in every version of Mathematica.
> In V8, you can directly import GPX files, as well as many other
> geo-spatial file types, using the Import command.
>
> Mark McClure

Thanks for sending that,   it's always amazing to see what can be done
with Mathematica,  that is a great package and I will use it often!!

I appreciate your contributions to the group!

Thank you!

Tom

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