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TCNavigator Features

Timber Cruise Navigator or GPS Navigator is a Windows CE GPS navigation, and land area calculation tool designed specifically for use with add-on (piggy-back) GPS pods such as those that can be purchased for Juniper Systems Allegro, or SYMBOLS Pocket PCs. It will however work with an external GPS unit via the serial data port. The first help screen in TCNavigator provides instructions for building, or purchasing an adapter cable for attaching an external GPS unit to your PDA.

TCNavigator is simple to operate because it uses menu commands instead of icon commands, and does not include the extra complex mapping components found in TDS's SoloCE, or ESRI's ArcPad GPS mapping software. TCNavigator is designed for those who need an easy to use tool for navigating to a coordinate, and calculating the area of a close traverse.

TCNavigator will automatically send to TCruise, the plot identifier, stratum name, and latitude/longitude of a plot/point way point.

The major features of TCNavigator are

• True and magnetic azimuth, and bearing to destination
• Latitude, and longitude averaging
• Unlimited way points, or survey stations
• UTM, TM, and Alber's map projections
• Magnetic declination
• VDOP, HDOP, and PDOP clipping
• Land area calculation with Universal Transvers Meractor (UTM), Transverse Mercator (TM), Alber's equal area, State Plain, Poly Conic, and, Lambert Conformal Conic map projections
• Land area as a sperical polygon for extremly large areas
• Sketch of traverse
• Ability to export way point coordinates to a text file
• Flight distance calculator plus other nifty GPS calculators
• Feet, chains, yards, miles, nautical miles, meters, and kilometers for distances
• Way points can be assigned a type
• UTCs are attached to way points