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Hi all,
here (http://www.okmap.it) a new freeware mapping software for Garmin and Magellan GPS devices.
Some OkMap features:
OkMap is a free software for many outdoor activities:
- Trekking
- Off road
- Mountain bike
- Sailing
- Hunting and fishing
- Finding mushrooms
- Soft air
- Geocaching
- And many others...

OkMap help you to:
- Calibrate raster maps with different types of projections
- Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon
- Display simultaneously raster and vectorial maps
- Import vectorial data with different types of cartographic projections
- Use raster and vectorial maps as background for navigation
- Create and manage waypoints, routes and tracks in GPX format
- Use digital terrain models to display the elevation
- Upload and download data to and from a GPS device (Garmin and Magellan)
- Navigate in real time with a GPS device through NMEA protocol
- Display Google Earth and Google Maps in current map location
- Exchange data with Google Earth and view your map in 3D
- Find nearby cache in geocaching.com web site
- Exchange data with gpsgate.com server
- Receive customized navigation data from remote GPS devices
- Send the current position to an OkMap remote server
- Make conversions between different types of coordinates, datums, formats, etc..
- Use a handy calculator for your calculations
- Many other things...

Supported languages:
- English
- Italian

Supported formats:
- Images: ecw, bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif and many others
- Maps: gfw, jgw, pgw, tfw, bpw (Drg maps); ecw (Earth Resource Mapping); map (OziExplorer); gmi (GpsTuner)
- Vector data: shp, dbf (Esri shape file); dcw (Digital Chart of World)
- GPS data: gpx (GPS Exchange Format); kml (Keyhole Markup Language); wpt, plt, rte (OziExplorer); loc (Geocaching) and many others formats thanks to the software GpsBabel
- DEM data (digital earth model): hgt (SRTM-1 and SRTM-3)

Good navigation to everyone.