Welcome to the GPSy® software download page. We have set up a blog for announcements related to GPSy and GPSy Pro, including information on the Mac OS X versions of GPSy:

Version Release notes:

GPSy X Release 3.41 -- October 7, 2008

Note Runs only on Intel-based Mac hardware, not PowerPC-based Macs

Enhancements

• Add support for some Garmin USB-based devices.

GPSy X Release 3.40.4 -- July 7, 2008

Enhancements

• Add support for 115200 baud.
• Hold down the option key when dropping the File menu to get a command to immediately load an NMEA file.

Bug Fixes

• The "Place a Map Overlay Marker" context menu item was improperly disabled in some circumstances.

GPSy X Release 3.40.3 -- June 23, 2007

Enhancements

• Added support for certain USB serial devices, possibly including some Magellan eXplorist units.

Bug Fixes

• Improved support for receiving the display image from various Garmin units.

GPSy X Release 3.40.2 -- May 4, 2007

Enhancements

• Added support for receiving the display image from newer Garmin units.
• Added support for certain USB serial devices, possibly including some Magellan eXplorist units.
• When calibrating a map, GPSy now prompts with the text from the previous calibration point, which makes entering close data points much easier.
• Improved data transfer support for various Garmin units.
• Added an option to ignore GeoTiff data to allow manual calibration of corrupt GeoTiff files.
• Set proper default NMEA-0183 baud rate.
• Clearer error message when old GPSy license number is entered in GPSy X.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed NMEA issue which caused problems displaying speed and heading for come GPS units.
• Fixed problem loading GPSy map calibration files.
• Fixed bug in map calibration process that could trash memory.
• Fixed bug which caused some error message to say "error".
• Fixed memory trashing bug when loading GeoTiff maps.
• Fixed memory trashing bug rarely seen when closing map windows.

GPSy X Release 3.40.1 -- August 15, 2006

Enhancements

• Support for horizontal and vertical scroll wheels, trackpads, etc.

Bug Fixes

• Problem downloading waypoints from Garmin Foretrex
• Problem downloading waypoints from Garmin GPSMAP 76
• "Save Info" checkbox disabled in TFW Info Dialog
• Problems calibrating maps in some coordinate systems
• Preferences panel sometimes resets serial port setting
• Updated email contact info

GPSy X Release 3.40 -- May 24, 2006

• Completely new Mac OS X port
• Intel/PowerPC universal binary
• Support for Bluetooth devices (must register as serial device in Bluetooth driver)
• Support for USB devices which have Mac OS X serial driver

Release 3.38 -- June 12, 2000

• Fixed timing issues with USB serial adaptors
• Fixed problem with Magellan 315 - thanks Dr. Thomas Leatherman
  -- Recommendations: set serial speed to 4800bps81N
  turn off NMEA output while transferring data

• Added support for eMap --
• Added support for eTrex (product id 130) -- thanks Lukas Leukamp
• Added OpenTransport feature: Internet DGPS will not load if TCP/IP stack not loaded
  -- this should prevent InternetDGPS from jamming open a closed PPP connection
• Added new DGPS-IP server: dgps.wsrcc.com:2103 (USA-Mid)
  -- this should be more stable for East coast clients than the flaky USA-East server
• Fixed ContextualMenu / AppearanceManager weak-linking problems
• Fixed Japanese resource problem with GPSy-links
• Fixed eMap/ eTrex "control-click" map waypoint upload bug

• Added DeLorme SA6 support
• Added support for raw track files (like the ones SA6 exports for routes). You must add the header 'Track' in BBEdit or another text editing program to the exported rpoints.txt file so that GPSy can auto-detect them:

            Track
            43.808533 -70.164429
            43.808716 -70.164307
            43.808716 -70.164307
            ......
  	

• Added waypoints and tracks are now real layers in their own right
• Added "Reset GPSy" will clear track/waypoint overlay data (thanks Steve Harmony)
• Serial port selection defaults to <none> since current Macs no longer have standard serial ports
• Fixed memory leak from the main window's backing store cache (about 1 meg per window)
• Greatly optimized screen refreshes while scrolling, speeding performance
• Fixed being able to use GPSy Calibration files that had UNIX/DOS linefeeds
• Added RegiRestorer by Hugh Johnson, Semplice Software (www.semplicesoft.com)
• Added "command" key/drag is now supported (per new Apple HIG) - thanks Chris Stone
• Added Dutch Grid (Rijksdriehoeksmeting; RD) using the free source to the rd2wgs program by Ejo Schrama
  -- when entering coordinates in the Dutch Grid (such as map calibrations), the datum is ignored and defaults to the Bessel ellipsoid
• Recompiled with CodeWarrior Pro 5.2

• Added OSGRS80 (Ordinance Survey Grid Reference System 1980) datum
• Added Magellan protocol icon support (thanks Bruce Robinson)
• Added increased tolerance for extraneous whitespace in license key dialog
• Added France as center of the world in GRD system (thanks Yves Couetter; viva la France!)
• Fixed Street Pilot Color ROM v. 2.01 issue (thanks Dennis Fraser)
• Fixed GRD display issues (thanks Francis Dalaudier; viva la France!)

• Added new consolidated Preferences panel (requires Appearance Manager)
  -- if you are running MacOS 7.5 and it complains that AppearanceLib is not installed, then you can download it from Apple's Developer Web site or upgrade to MacOS 7.5.5, which has ApperanceLib built in. E-mail our if you experience difficulties.
• Added ability to force close non-traditional (CTB) ports -- thanks Ward McFarland (www.megawolf.com) -- this will only work on ports that are orphaned, forcing closed an active port won't work
• Added DGPS age to DGPS information panel; let's you know how stale your DGPS data is
• Fixed editing errors in Japanese Language Resource File
• Fixed changing DGPS servers mid-stream will re-open new server
• Fixed DPGS-IP server reporting to use seconds rather than n-counts for intervals

[Full Release History]

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