GPS for Dummies.pdf - Engineering Surveyor

Chapter 19: Exploring Web Topographic Maps309You can input a number of different GPS data formats into GPS Visualizer,including GPX (a standardized format for inputting and outputting GPS data)and OziExplorer waypoint and track files, Geocaching.com LOC files, and tabdelimitedtext files. (Read about OziExplorer in Chapter 15; read about thesport of geocaching in Chapter 7.)Displaying a GPS Visualizer mapAfter you have some sample GPS data to use, create a map with it. The GPSVisualizer map input form page, as shown in Figure 19-4, might seem a littleintimidating with all its different options. To get started making maps, youcan leave most of the default settings as they are. (If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed,click the simple version of the map form link to display just thebasic input options.)Each option has a question mark button to the right of it that you can clickto display a window with more information about that option and how touse it.Figure 19-4:GPSVisualizermap inputform page.