Keywords: Palmer, Global Navigation, Celestial, Map, Chart, Plotting, Win95
Version: 3/28/97
Type: Shareware Demo
New in this version:
Updated mapping
Revised 32-bit program
NavPak is a graphic program for navigation and piloting on a digital chart image. It can be used with scanned charts and maps, or without as a digital plotting sheet and drawing program. NavPak has a NMEA interface for satellite navigation (GPS), and a complete collection of traditional navigation tools and drawing tools.
When NavPak is used with NMEA data, it will plot your position as a marker on the chart, manage waypoints, and provide course and distance to a waypoint. The traditional tools include: Celestial sight reduction and plotting, star and planet finder, draw great circles, plot bearings, draw line relative, measure distance, advance LOP, and a time-speed-distance calculator.
Graphic drawing tools include: plot markers, draw straight lines, draw freehand, color fill areas, and place text strings. All drawing and plotting can be saved as a Windows Metafile.
Included with NavPak is a program called MapSetup, which makes it easy to scan and calibrate your own charts to use with NavPak.
This demo contains working copies of 32-bit NavPak and MapSetup with limited functions and requires Windows 95.
For additional information and support, contact the author at AOL Screen Name: GlobeNav
To install, decompress archive into an empty directory and execute NAVPAK-5.EXE to launch.