MacOS 10.9's Maps and GPS

Recently, I upgraded my late-2012 slimline iMac from MacOS 10.8 "Mountain Lion" to MacOS 10.9 "Mavericks". Also recently, my parents replaced an aging white MacBook with a refurbished late-2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Now both machines run on MacOS 10.9.
One new feature for both my parents and myself is Maps. We occasionally use a handheld DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 GPS receiver for travel (finding key points, directions, etc.), as well as recording needed coordinates for recreational trails inspections and maintenance work bees and other activities. DeLorme does not provide GPS interface software for MacOS. We have, however, used Google Earth in the past to load GPX files off of the PN-40's SD card.
Short of loading Microsoft Windows onto our respective computers, is there a way to extract GPS waypoint coordinates and GPX route files from the SD card to display and manipulate in MacOS 10.9's Maps?
Also: if there a way to manually type in GPS coordinates into Maps to display and/or record points of interest for future reference and use in e-mail communiqués, newsletters, reports, etc.?
Thanks in advance.

You can enter the GPS coordinates manually into Maps using the search field. Here is an example of entering the decimal GPS coordinates for the Empire State Building in NYC.
I also tried it on the GPS location for my house, and it went to the correct location. Just remember that Maps is a street navigation tool. It will try to find a nearby street address (if there is one) to associate with the coordinates you enter.

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My E 51 is sometimes freezing while using maps with GPS LD4W.
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You assume your company is a "Destination"?
People are going to navigate from East McKeysport just to come visit you?
Garmin works everywhere, even where there is no cell coverage like the middle of
Alaska, Texas, and the desert south west. Even getting GSM signals there is a challenge. Forget 3G.
Garmins (and tomtoms) are optimized for driving. You can even get voice command versions. You can download new map yearly. (How quick do you think they build new roads?).
You get turn by turn voice directions, Lane change hints, Speed Camera warnings, waypoint info, and bluetooth interface with your phone. It imports your phone's phone book, lets you dial on the screen, Knows the phone numbers of all the hotels along your route, reads your text messages to you in your native language, calculates your ETA, advises you of traffic snarls and routes you around them, records your trip log, gets current gas prices from MSN, and Yes, even recommends restaurants. It delivers you to the proper side of the street when you select and address, not on the wrong side of 6 lanes of traffic. It tells you what the current speed limit is, knows which streets are one way and even show traffic levels. It projects an image similar to the road layout and instantly recalculates your route when you don't pay attention and miss a turn.
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Is anything similar available for Nokia 920 Windows phone?
I have to add My experience with the Here Drive-Beta is pretty miserable. It does not seem to accept specific addresses in the search block so it's very time consuming and distracting when you're driving.
She can drive and very easily speak an address to the phone and then we're guided turn by turn to the destination. Very handy when your house hunting or looking for a restaurant.
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From what I have read on both this forum and Crackberry's Verizon 8330 GPS is not enabled unless you pay for VZ Navigator. However, Google maps uses cell towers as well to triangulate your position, if your GPS is disabled. Google Maps works real well, as long as you can live with being APPROXIMATLEY on a location. In my case I am within 5,000 meters while at home. When I travel downtown I've had it go to within 500 meters. I believe that difference is the amount of cell towers in the area.
Google maps is free, VZnavigator is a monthly fee of around $10 I think.
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Nokia 5800 Maps and GPS

I live in New Zealand and will be travelling too Hawaii next month, if I use the phone for GPS will I be charged for global roaming data?

Hi, yes you will incurr data roaming charges, previous advice was correct, to disable AGPS you can go into setting-phone-phone mgmt-Application Settings-Positioning-Positioning methods, and un-tick everything except intergrated GPS, this will incur no data charges, and phone will work like a TOMTOM.
Good Luck (though you probably don't need it, you live in NZ and are going to Hawiai !!! Enjoy your trip)
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How can I filter to find photos NOT pinned to a map? I have 28,000 phots with many mapped and many not. The Search function does not include GPS data. I haven't found way to search metadata inside or out of Elements.

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Nokia n95 maps licence problem and gps not working

hi i have n95 and i formated it all and it's mass memory, now when i open maps i don't find my license, also i can't update it, i can't dowload maps for my phone, so i can't navigate without internet, also gps lock not working
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i formated my phone manytimes and i used nokia software update and still no solution for me
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Now, you have old cities/qf on your phone because you started with Maps 2.0 which used incompatible map data. Please, on your phone delete the folder cities and the file qf. These are in the at the start (root directory) of your storage. Then on your phone, open Maps and browse a bit around. That re-creates cities/qf. Now try the Nokia Suite again. Does it show the countries? Good. Now it should work. If not, please, report.
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I had the previous PC Suite.
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Efficient optimized way to read from serial port and GPS data display using map

Hi,
I have a custom h/w which reads the data from GPS Rx and after parsing send it to PC over RS232.
Each second it sends 201 bytes to PC. I have developed a VI to read the GPS data and display it. Project file is attached.
Fulctionality of different loops are as following:
1. LOOP 1: 1.1 Reads the serial data from com port.
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1. Functionality acheived.
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Quesitions:
1. Is the developed VI is efficient in terms of using queue loacl variables etc.
2. What are the improvments I can do to solve the problem.
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jayant
jayant
Attachments:
Telemetry_Receiver_v2.zip ‏3075 KB

One of the most common problems in serial communication is the need for an adequate timing: how much time is expected your device to spend before answering? Have you put and adequate pause in your code before reading from the serial port?
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Apple Maps and 3G/4G GPS?

I have a third generation iPad running iOS6.1.3 with the latest version of Apple Maps - I think!
I do not have the 3G/4G facility operational as there is currently no SIM installed.
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Apple Maps, however, seems to present a series of grey patterned lozenge shapes unless I am connected to wifi. The little blue pin is there, beaming away, but whether that is actually where I am I cannot tell as I appear to be in the middle of a landscape of grey lozenges! The pin does, though, appear to "move" as I do, although that may be either an optical illusion or wishful thinking!
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Surely not!
If it is a still to be resolved bug, then when is it likely to be fixed?
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Will gps mapping and email on my verizon iPhone 5 work in France?

Since the sim slot in all Verizon iPhone 5's is officially unlocked out of the gate, you can save a ton of money by NOT calling Verizon support & NOT enabling data roaming, All you have to do is purchase a local sim when you get to France.
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N96 - GPS local maps and voice guided navi for 3 m...

I see on the box of the N96 :
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Why that ?
Even a cheap GPS at 100 euros has maps and voice forever
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I have to disagree with you there.
The system is designed to suit all users, not just those that use the phone for navigation in the car. Plus many people won't use the phone for navigation but will use it as an interactive map book.
Also with all the new and upcoming location based services that nokia now offers it is very important to have up-to-date maps.
If we had to pay for map updates then many of the location based services wouldn't be accurate or worth using.
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For dedicated in car sat-nav systems such as tom toms then it makes sense for them to give you the navigation for free. They make their money by charging you for new maps and maps for other countries.
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At the end of the day no one is forcing you to use nokia maps either. If you don't like it then install a program like garmin XT. This program is like in car sat-navs where navigation is free but you pay for maps. A very expensive option if you travel to many countries.
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LG Ally text message and gps problems

hello. ive been with verizon for about 10 years maybe. ive been overall happy with the service and customer service. but the prices should be alot lower.lol. i started out with the motorolas then switched to the lg phones. only problem with the motorola was the speakers. not loud enough. could never hear the phone ring. the lgs usually suffer from the same problem.
i had a few phone problems but nothing like this lg ally. im on my second one and about to be my 3rd one in about 3 months. 1st phone i had every problem under the sun. this phone i am suffering from text message problems and gps problems. i suffer from what everyone else has problems with. the messages wont send. they will eventually lock up. it will show the envelope with the red explanation point ( i think thats the graphic). then usually everytime when i sent a text the texts will close. it will send then bounce back and show up as a draft and i have to resend it and wait for it to go thru. finally the last problem with the texts. when i send a text a phone number from my contacts shows up and freezes on the screen. its in white text with a black background. its the same number every time. it stays on the screen until i restart or pull my battery out.
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I do apologize you are having trouble with your device I looked in our information system on the LG Ally in reguards to issues you are having it states if you have the Free Droid Security anti virus protection application down loaded it will cause the phone to lock up or freeze. Check and make sure you do not have the application on your device. Check you GPS settings and make sure correct. Go to Settings; Location & Security; make sure GPS is on wireless network. If this does not fix issue you can try doing a Master Reset on your device. Make sure your contacts are saved in your G-mail account or through Back Up Assistance.
Master Reset/Soft Reset:
Factory Reset option 1
From the main screen, touch menu tab
Touch Settings
Touch Privacy
Touch Factory Data reset
Touch Reset Phone
Warning: This will erase all data from your phone, including:
Your Google account
System and application data and settings
Downloaded Applications
It will not erase: Current System software and bundled applications; SD Card files, such as music or Photos
Factory Reset option 2 - Warning this will reset device back to original factory settings.
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Soft Reset
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Touch Power off.
Touch OK.
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or
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Nokia Map vs GPS Data

New owner of the 6220 classic. Can anyone tell me something about the relation between the Nokia Maps applicaton and the app called GPS Data?
Sven

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Nokia E71 Questions - 3G and GPS - URGENT PLEASE R...

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well. I am a big noobie when it comes to phone services.
I am planning to buy an unlocked Nokia E71. My service provider is AT&T. I am currently using a Sony Ericsson w580i and I use the MediaNet data plan. However, I know the Nokia E71 is 3G capable.
My question is: Once I buy my Nokia E71:
1) How do I enable it for 3G? Is there a seperate service I have to pay monthly like MediaNet to get the speeds of 3G? How do I suscribe to the 3G service on AT&T?
2) Does Google Maps on the E71 give the exact location of me? My w580i only gives me an "accurate" location within 1100 meters, which is totally not good enough for me.
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I have AT&T with an old Cingular SIM card. I popped it into my E71 and it works just fine. I can set the phone to UMTS (3g) and it will connect and use it just fine for phones and data. Though for data it appears (to me) to go slow like it's still using Edge for data. I might need to go in and get a new SIM card meant for a 3G device to get actual 3G speeds. But right now it is not a big deal for me.
3G is not a seperate service to pay for. If you use it for voice then you don't need to do anything more. Though for data.. like me.. you might need to get a newer 3G sim card to see its full speed potential. Be warned that you will need to get a data package (not the standard Pay Per Use). PPU will get $$$ very fast. It is considered a smart phone and will cost like 29.99 for the unlimited data plan. Though since AT&T doesn't have the E71 yet you can sneak by with the unlimited medianet option for 19.99. Though if you use too much data AT&T might notice it and take the medianet option off without telling you and stick you on the pay per use plan which will cause your bill to be very $$$.
I have used google maps and it plays just fine with the internal GPS (you WILL need a data connection to use gmaps!) I think it has said it has locked on to within 20meters for me. I havnt used it in a while but I think that's the closest its got.
Another option is the builtin Nokia Maps. Not as user friendly in my opinion. But at least you can download maps to a memory card and not have to worry about using data all the time.
Hope this rambling helps.
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IPad and GPS

I purchased an iPad recently but did not purchase a cellular plan, 2 questions, does my iPad have a GPS chip in it? And if I want to in the future can I purchase a cellular plan for my same iPad or must I purchase a brand new one, I just bought this one 2 weeks ago and didn't think I needed cellular because I have an iPhone.
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The personal hotspot feature on your iPhone is available through your carrier (you mentioned Verizon and AT&T above so I assume you're in the US). This feature is not free, you have to have a plan to enable this feature with US carriers. I find it less expensive to enable cellular right on the iPad on an as-needed basis since I don't need it every month, whereas a hotspot feature seems to be charged each month whether you use it or not.
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