'ExpertGPS Uses' Category

• Now Calculate the Exact Area of Any Field with ExpertGPS

  

  ExpertGPS can calculate the exact acreage of any farm field or parcel of land. Instantly. Without any math or figuring on your part. Just click and trace, and let ExpertGPS do the rest.

  
  

  July 28th, 2009

• Mapping oil fields over high-resolution aerial photos with ExpertGPS Pro

  

  John B. is mapping an oil field water flood project, and needs to locate trench routes between wells and the pumphouse. ExpertGPS Pro offers aerial photo coverage of the entire US, and can easily integrate with Google Earth’s color imagery, or detailed orthophotos from your state or company GIS department.

  
  

  July 23rd, 2009

• Here’s How to Transfer Excel Fishing Waypoints to a Lowrance GPS in USR Format

  

  Ben C. needs help converting offshore and deep-sea fishing spots from an Excel spreadsheet into GPS coordinates he can convert to a .USR data file for his Lowrance GPS. Here’s how to import, map, and download the Excel data to his GPS using ExpertGPS.

  
  

  July 22nd, 2009

• Exporting parcel outlines to AutoCAD DXF

  

  Steve K. writes: “I’m using your trial software to see if it’s right for me. I’m an architect and I need the ability to export to AutoCAD. As an experiment, I drew the metes and bounds of a particular parcel over the aerial photo map that loads automatically in the trial version. I did this [...]

  
  

  July 10th, 2009

• How to Send Cadastral Property Boundaries to your GPS

  

  Ray K. asks: “I have downloaded property shape files from the Montana Cadastral mapping web site and want to place them on top of the Garmin TOPO 2008 MapSource map that in in my GPS to outline the property on the TOPO map.” Dan Foster shows how to use ExpertGPS Pro to import cadastral [...]

  
  

  July 10th, 2009

• ExpertGPS Review: Historical Railroad Mapping

  

  Mike G. uses ExpertGPS to research abandoned railroads. ExpertGPS lets him mark rights of way on historical topo maps, and then scour modern aerial photos for matching features.”

  
  

  May 29th, 2009

• Mapping Lowrance GPS Fishing Waypoints in Google Earth

  Brian H. asks: “How do I add Lowrance gps way point numbers( like 34.06.182 / 81.23.465 and convert to get into google earth pro for fishing way points?”

  
  

  May 29th, 2009

• Creating a low-cost aviation GPS

  

  Andy D. wants to turn his low-cost Garmin Nuvi 205W into an aviation GPS by importing shapefiles and KML files of airspace restrictions. Is this a good idea?

  
  

  May 28th, 2009

• Tracking your real-time position on a moving map display

  Bob R. needs a way to chart his current GPS location when travelling across Iowa. GPS Expert Dan Foster explains how to preload maps and aerial photos to his laptop, and how the Tracking feature in ExpertGPS will turn his MacBook into a moving-map GPS display.

  
  

  May 28th, 2009

• Send Sales Territory Client Addresses from Excel or Outlook to your GPS

  

  Stacie R. writes: “Is there a GPS system that will allow me to import my sales territory which is on excel with columns such as Agency Name, Address, City, State, ZIP (similar to mappoint) onto a GPS? I could have 1000 or more addresses based on a several state territory which is why I [...]

  
  

  May 28th, 2009