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December 29, 2005
GPSy X is now in public beta
We're happy to announce that the GPSy X is moving into public beta. GPSy has been rewritten for complete compatibility with Mac OS X. You can download GPSy X 3.40 beta 3 here:
Please send beta bug reports to: beta @ gpsy.com
At the same time, GPSy Pro X users can download GPSy Pro X 1.20 beta 3 from the GPSy Pro registered user's website.
Posted by gpsy at December 29, 2005 10:54 AM
Comments
Is it possible or will it be possible to link a bluetooth GPS ,as TOMTOM ,to your software ?
Posted by: gayt at December 31, 2005 11:55 AM
I hooked my Garmin III with Keyspan USA-28 adapter to GPSyX today and it worked great. Much less hassle than running in Classic mode.
One suggestion: I don't know what the difficulties would be, but would it be possible to add VSI (or VVI) information to the Aviation window. It would be a simple calculation based on altitude change over the known sampling period. Something like (60/s)*(a2-a1)=feet per minute vertical speed (s=sampling rate, a1=previous altitude, a2=current altitude).
Thanks for the switch-over and all you coding work
Posted by: Kirk Huizenga at December 31, 2005 12:38 PM
One other issue that I have not been able to tackle - I am attempting to display and calibrate FAA aeronautical charts in GPSyX (same issue in Classic). The tiff scans of the charts come with a world file (twf). I have attempted to make the changes listed on GSPy web site to add UTM data to the world file, but that doesn't work for me.
One of the issues in trying to self-calibrate these charts is that they are big. They cover many degrees of longitude. The long/lat lines on the charts curve and the leftmost and rightmost lines are not parallel.
I would think that there would be a projection correction factor in the world file for that, but I haven't been able to get it to work
Below is a web site with the files and then the FAA's information
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/current/
http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/catalog/charts/digital/Sectional_Raster
Finally, I believe that the Tips that show up under the progress bar when opening a map haven't changed. They mention things like QT 4 and Virtual Memory. I like the tips idea, but some of them are not relevant with OSX
I don't see either of these as bugs so I didn't send them to the bugs email
Thanks
Posted by: Kirk Huizenga at December 31, 2005 1:31 PM
I noticed that there is not an Intel binary in there. Does this have PPC specific code, or will Intel processors be supported as well?
By the way, good work! I'm very impressed!
Posted by: Philip at December 31, 2005 11:59 PM
We're committed to producing a Mactel version as well. There's some byte-flipping involved since Intel processors use a different endian than PowerPC. Once we get that code done, we'll make it available.
Posted by: nasukaren 
at January 3, 2006 1:05 AM
Kirk - Thanks for the tips and suggestions. We'll try to work on them.
Posted by: nasukaren at January 3, 2006 1:06 AM
GPSy-X works with the Rayming TN-200 usb device with "Garmin" settings and sets position (~100m too far west) on www.streetmaps.uk. Neat!
Option for maps.google.co.uk ?
Posted by: Martin Richmond-Hardy at January 8, 2006 9:17 AM