Eye4Software GPS Mapping Studio is a professional GPS/GIS mapping software tool, which can be used in numereous applications. Use the software to import and export, convert, view and edit your maps, display your position realtime and to record all your movements. The software will work with almost any GPS and can be used on any desktop, laptop or netbook computer running Windows XP or higher.

Application examples:

Add comments, symbols or routes to your topographic maps;
Outdoor sports, plan your route using waypoints, or load a track, and transfer the data to your GPS device;
Dredging and construction, using the hydrographic survey and dredging edition of the software;
Fishing industry, for instance to navigate inside the assigned fishing parcels;
View GIS features on shapefiles, CAD and OpenStreetMap data;
Manage the waypoints, tracks and routes on your GPS;
Show your current position on a loaded map;
Convert GPS data between different file formats;
Convert various vector map formats to ESRI shapefiles;
Perform realtime positioning on vessels, cars, trucks and construction vehicles;
Record your current position and movements, for instance to get hold of the covered area or track;
Load previously recorded track-and-trace data for further analysis;
And many more...

Features

GPS Connection

The software can communicate with almost any GPS device to retrieve your current position and show it on one of the supported raster or vectormaps. Supported protocols include NMEA0183 and Garmin PVT protocol. It is possible to record your movements to a GPS trackfile. Using the hydrographic survey / dredging edition, it is also possible to record the depth on your current location.

When a map is loaded, you can also calculate distance and course, add symbols, lines, boundaries and comments to your map and save and / or print them.
Supported Map Formats

The software supports a wide variaty of both vector and raster formats including:

GeoTIFF;
AutoCad DXF CAD files;
Microstation ISFF DGN files;
MapInfo MIF/MID files;
Arc/Info Export files;
Arc/Info Binary Coverage files;
Arc/Info Binary Grid files;
S57 Electronic Nautical Chart files;
USGS Digital Line Graphs (DLG-O);
SDTS Digital Line Graphs (DLG-3);
GPX GPS Exchange files;
Garmin Database (GDB) files;
Atlas BNA Boundary files;
OpenStreetMap XML files, and OpenStreetMap PNG tiles through calibration;
ESRI Shapefiles;
BSB nautical charts;
ACE2 Binary Grid files;
Binary Terrain files;
Geodas 98 grid files;
DTED level 0,1 and 2 files;
SRTM Binary Grid files;
JPG files, through user calibration or JGW (JPEG World File);
TIF files, through user calibration or TFW (TIFF World File);
GIF Files, through user calibration or GFW (GIF World File);
PNG Files, through user calibration or PGW (PNG World File);
BMP Files, through user calibration or BPW (BMP World File);

Import and Export formats

Overlay data, such as comments, waypoints, route and track data can be imported from or exported to different file formats. File formats supported include Topographix GPX GPS Exchange Files, Garmin Database, Maptech and OziExplorer PLT, WPT and RTE Files. You can export both manually added data as well as all data stored on your GPS device.
Map Projections

To display a part of the globe (ellips or sphere) on a display(plane), a map projection is needed to prevent distortion of the map data. The software is shipped with a database containing over 3500 predefined map projections. You can also delete, modify and add new definitions. The following map projections are supported:

Transverse Mercator;
Oblique Mercator;
Mercator;
Oblique Stereographic;
Polar Stereographic;
Albers Equal Area Conic;
Lambert Conformal Conic;
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area;
Krovak;
Eckert IV;
Eckert VI;
Mollweide;
Cassini;
Polyconic;
Miller;
Bonne;
Sinusoidal;
Cylindrical Equal Area.

Tools

Some other tools and features the software offers:

GPS waypoints, routes and tracks up- and download;
Map calibration, to use your own downloaded or scanned GIF, PNG, BMP, JPG and TIF maps;
Great circle calculations to perform distance and bearing calculations from point to point;
Built in waypoint editor;
Built in route editor;
Built in track editor;
Calculate track and route distances (both leg and accumulated distance);
Skyview;
Attribute viewer for GIS files like ESRI shapefiles;
Dataview to display all information retrieved from the GPS device;
Track recorder to save all movements to a GPS track;
Display your position on the map realtime;