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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 7100. Navigon GmbH was a Würzburg, Germany-based manufacturer of GPS devices and GPS navigation software. The company was privately owned, until in June 2011, it was announced that Navigon was to be acquired by Garmin and become a subsidiary of the company. [1]
Vehicle navigation on a personal navigation assistant Garmin eTrex10 edition handheld. A satellite navigation device or satnav device, also known as a satellite navigation receiver or satnav receiver or simply a GPS device, is a user equipment that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
The Garmin .img format is what Garmin devices use to store the maps for its GPS units. The img files contain a header and many subfiles. Img's filestore is based on FAT system. [1] Some old GPS units are not able to work with multiple img files so they need to be merged into one file called gmapsupp.img using programs like Mapsource. [2]
Garmin entered this market in 1991 with the GPS-100AVD panel-mounted receiver. Its first portable unit, the GPS-95, was introduced in 1993. In 1994, the GPS-155 panel-mounted unit was the first GPS receiver on the market to receive full FAA certification for instrument approaches.
Garmin, road portable navigation devices, [8] car built-in navigation devices [9] Genius Maps, a paid online and offline turn-by-turn navigation app for Android, HarmonyOS and iOS [10] OpenStreetMap. Offline-capable applications that use volunteer-contributed data: Karta GPS, a free online and offline navigation app for Android and iOS [11]
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1993: The Austrian channel ORF airs a presentation of the software company bitMAP and its head Werner Liebig's invention, an electronic city map including street names and house numbers, using a satellite-based navigation system. bitMAP attends Comdex in Las Vegas the same year, but doesn't manage to market itself properly.