Re: GIS/GPS Software

--- JRB Technology <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a viewer in which I can load a geo-refrenced file
> such as a shape file or geo refrenced tiff file, then let me type in
> GPS cordinates to plot on the map ? I basically want to track my
> hunting spots like food sources, deer rubs, water sources and stuff
> like that. I use a GPS right now to get my cordinates, then I write
> them in my notebook. Would be nice to see on a topo map.
> 
> I have the georefrenced topo maps ( Tiff files with World files ),
> which work because I used them with mapserver, so now I just need a
> viewer to load them, and plot my GPS cords.
>

I suggest you use QGIS, it should happily display your tiffs, as well as most
other formats of raster & vector dtaa via GDAL & OGR. Has versions for
Linux/Windows/OSX. 

It has a plugin for displaying point data stored in a text file, you enter the 
delimiter character & which columns have the X & Y data & it is a layer on your
map. This plugin is supplied with the standard QGIS install.

If you want to use a database to store the data instead of text files, it also
supports PostGIS.

See http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=62


Cheers,

   Brent Wood