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Peetu · 09-10-2003, 08:18 AM

Hi!
My problem (or blessing..) is that I live in northern Finland which is practically periferia looked from any place on the planet. So even if Finland is member of European Union and usually encompassed as western Europe, the commercial map softwares doesn´t cover Finland and even if does, at least, not the area I live in (160 kilometres north from arctic circle).

For that reason I use a navigation program called Seaclear in my car. Yes, as one can conclude from the name it is build for sea navigation purposes but can be used as superterranean use also. One brilliant feature in it is that one can scan whatever paper map into normal bitmap file and convert it into .wci -file with the calibration tool included with the install. Now one can even draw own maps with pencil on to back of corn flakes packet and scan them to be used with the software! Also if You have some ready digital map files, there´s a big possibility that the convert tool can convert them (It supports really big list of map file types). It also supports mutiple levels of different scale maps of same area, zooming with the mouse wheel (perfect for Griffin PowerMate) , 4 level dimmer for night use, automatic GPS starting when starting the program and so on. It lacks voice support and automatic route navigation (turn left from next corner etc) but at least I don´t need such features.

And the best feature of all, it is TOTALLY FREE.

Here´s the link:

http://www.sping.com/seaclear/

Hope this helped,

/pete

09-10-2003, 08:18 AM	#4
Peetu Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Finland Posts: 15	Hi! My problem (or blessing..) is that I live in northern Finland which is practically periferia looked from any place on the planet. So even if Finland is member of European Union and usually encompassed as western Europe, the commercial map softwares doesn´t cover Finland and even if does, at least, not the area I live in (160 kilometres north from arctic circle). For that reason I use a navigation program called Seaclear in my car. Yes, as one can conclude from the name it is build for sea navigation purposes but can be used as superterranean use also. One brilliant feature in it is that one can scan whatever paper map into normal bitmap file and convert it into .wci -file with the calibration tool included with the install. Now one can even draw own maps with pencil on to back of corn flakes packet and scan them to be used with the software! Also if You have some ready digital map files, there´s a big possibility that the convert tool can convert them (It supports really big list of map file types). It also supports mutiple levels of different scale maps of same area, zooming with the mouse wheel (perfect for Griffin PowerMate) , 4 level dimmer for night use, automatic GPS starting when starting the program and so on. It lacks voice support and automatic route navigation (turn left from next corner etc) but at least I don´t need such features. And the best feature of all, it is TOTALLY FREE. Here´s the link: http://www.sping.com/seaclear/ Hope this helped, /pete