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Garmin BaseCamp is a map viewing / GIS software package offered free for download by Garmin, primarily intended for use with their GPS navigation devices. BaseCamp serves as a replacement to the now unsupported Garmin MapSource.
Navigon was founded in 1991. In 2000, the firm launched the industry's first navigation software for the Pocket PC.With the introduction of Traffic Message Channel-based (TMC) traffic avoidance features in 2002, Navigon became the first company to offer such a feature on a consumer GPS product.
Garmin Ltd. is an American multinational technology company based in Olathe, Kansas. [3] [4] The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communication, sensor-based, and information products to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoors, and sport markets.
1490 Hook and Cod wars: Hook League Cod League 1351 1368 Red Turban Rebellion: Ming dynasty Dahan Kingdom of Dazhou Empire of Tianwan Empire of Daxia Yuan dynasty: 1352 1357 Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357: John V Palaiologos: John VI Kantakouzenos: 1353 1354 Delhite invasion of Bengal (1353–1354) Bengal Sultanate: Delhi Sultanate: 1354 ...
The making of the map was a major undertaking and the map took several years to complete. The map was not created by Fra Mauro alone, but by a team of cartographers, artists, and copyists led by him and using some of the most expensive techniques available at the time. The price of the map would have been about an average copyist's annual ...
In addition to the traditional maps, Martellus added a number of new maps (tabulae modernae) including maps of Mediterranean islands, Asia Minor, northern Europe, the British Isles and a nautical map of the north African coast. In a preface he claims his maps contain all the ports and coasts newly discovered by the Portuguese. [13]
March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties. July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary. July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day ...
The plan for working on the Cape Route to India was charted by King John II of Portugal as a cost-saving measure in the trade with Asia and also an attempt to monopolize the spice trade.