OkMap Desktop A GPS cartographic software for Windows. Project and walk along your trails!

Name: OkMap Desktop
Brand: OkMap
Price: 29.90 EUR
Author: Manuela Silvestri

OkMap is a cartographic software and a GPS software for Windows.
The main functions include: download free maps from map servers, georeference digital maps, creating custom maps to use with your GPS or mobile device, creating tracks on the map with production of track statistics and track graphs, a navigation system based on offline maps or web maps with navigation tools such as a compass, and many others features. It is useful for professional activities in the field, outdoor sports, and your enjoyment in the nature (search and rescue, trekking, mountain bike, 4WD, geocaching and much more).

Download Manual File formats

1/15 - 4UMaps web map with GPX data (waypoints, tracks and routes)

2/15 - Track graph showing distance / altitude and waypoints

3/15 - Self georeferenced raster map with GPX data (waypoints, tracks and routes)

4/15 - Google Earth integration

5/15 - Kompass web map with GPX data (waypoints, tracks and routes)

6/15 - Creating a Garmin Custom Map

7/15 - OpenStreetMap Mapnick web map with GPX data (waypoints, tracks and routes)

8/15 - Vector map with shape attributes

9/15 - Raster map calibration process

10/15 - Changing the attributes of a map comment

11/15 - Changing the attributes of a waypoint

12/15 - List of projections and their attributes

13/15 - Track statistics

14/15 - Preferences

15/15 - Coordinate conversions

Features

OkMap is an interactive software which allows you to work on your computer screen with web maps or digital maps that you have either bought or scanned. OkMap can also import vectorial data from the most common formats and DEM data relevant to height information.

Through these maps, you can organize your paths by creating waypoints, routes and tracks on your computer monitor, and upload this data to your GPS. OkMap sets automatically altitude data and estimates travel times. Furthermore OkMap provides you also with autorouting and geocoding functions even on the trails.

Data collected by your GPS can be downloaded on your computer, stored and displayed on the maps. They can also be used to create different types of statistics.

By connecting a GPS to your laptop, you can plot your position on maps in real-time. If you are connected to the network you can constantly send your position to a remote computer, or receive the position of your companions on your computer and display the related tracks on maps in real time.

OkMap can also interface Google Maps and Google Earth. With Google Maps you can view maps and data of your interest. With Google Earth you can view your paths and your maps in 3D also.

OkMap include a feature to generate automatically compatible Garmin Custom Maps (KMZ format) and maps in OruxMaps format. This feature includes map tiling from and to different image file formats (including ECW map format). It's possible select KML extensions 2.2 (if GPS supports them), the JPEG quality, the image resizing, the KML transparency, the draw order, and so on. You can also select the tiles to generate in output. This feature support not north oriented maps also.

Characteristics

General characteristics

Display web maps for more than 200 servers (Google, Apple, OpenStreetMap, ESRI, USGS, Kompass, IGM, ...)
Italian cadastral layers: buildings, parcels, lines of dressing and zoning
Ability to add new custom web map servers
Calibration / display raster maps (over 30 image formats) (video)
Calibration of Italian cadastral maps
Display vectorial maps
Display hybrid maps (raster + vectorial data, web map + local raster maps)
Ability to open multiple maps simultaneously
15 cartographic projections of the most used
Representation of coordinates in: degrees, degrees-minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM, ECEF, Open Location Code, GeoRef, USNG (US National Grid), MGRS (Military Grid Reference System), BG (British Grid), IG (Irish Grid), metric coordinates with custom projections
Database with about 700 EPSG datum
Database with about 5000 EPSG predefined projections by geographic area

Viewing 3D raster maps on Google Earth (for supported image formats)
Projects management (meta files)
Full screen map view
Map add-ons management (icons, comments)
Vectorial data management (point, multipoint, line, polygon)
GPX data management (waypoints, tracks, routes)
Files manager
Selecting multiple objects with the mouse
Context menu (right mouse)
Auto-info function
Zoom, autofit, zoom on selected objects functions
Moving map function in 3 modes
Docking forms
Dark theme
Customizing toolbar
Showing yes / no toolbar
Showing yes / no statusbar
Check new releases at startup

Functionality

Potential use

Search and rescue
Trekking
Mountain bike
Off road
Boating
Flying
Hunting and fishing
Finding mushrooms
Geocaching
Soft air

GPX data (waypoints, routes, tracks)

Creating / moving GPX data with the mouse (video)
Create tracks in "free hand" mode
Drawing tracks with colors according to the slope
List waypoints, routes, tracks and manage attributes
Indexing files of waypoints, routes, tracks
Search for waypoints, routes, tracks
Management of waypoints and photos clusters
Track simplification
Track smoothing
Track altitudes smoothing
Duplicate track / route
Join tracks / routes
Join track segments
Divide track in multiple segments
Divide track in multiple tracks
Set DEM altitude to waypoints, routes and tracks
Loading GPX data recently opened
Merge GPX files
Split GPX file (save each track / route in a single file)
Copy GPX objects to another file
Download waypoints from OpenStreetMap

Tracks statistics

Track statistics with more than 30 indicators
Track altitude profile (10 types of graphs)
Graph of tracks performance according with several parameters

Vectorial data (point, multipoint, line, polygon)

List vectorial themes and attributes management
Create / move vectorial data with the mouse
Edit vectorial data attributes
Delete vectorial data
Import vectorial data from ESRI data shapes
Download vectorial data from OpenStreetMap
Creation of contour lines on the map

Toponyms

Import the toponyms from different sources (OziExplorer, Garmin POI, GPX)
Create toponyms with the mouse
Up to 3 classification types and altitude

Photos

Geotag your photos manually (through ExifTool)
Geotag your photos using a track (through ExifTool)
Create your photos album in GPX or proprietary format
Automatically manages all major image tag
See pictures drawn on the map
Show the orientation of the taken picture

Map add-ons (icons, comments)

Creating / moving map add-ons with the mouse
Edit map add-ons attributes
Deleting map add-ons

Function on maps

Compute distances and areas on the map
Minimap display (thumbnail)
Magnifying lens display
Indexing / list / open maps
Meta/map display function and show map boundary
Search maps function
Map image: print / save / copy to clipboard
Saving location / zoom of the map on close
Loading maps recently opened
Maps conversion from a format to another

Grids

Displaying latitude / longitude grid
Displaying metric grid (alternative projection)

Altimeter data

Using SRTM DEM data
Altitude display on the current mouse position
Automatic download of DEM data relating to current map
Showing DEM data boundaries on the map

Map tiling (video)

Automatic or manual setting of tiles number and size
Optimizing for Garmin custom maps and OruxMaps
Choice of tiles to generate

Maps management

Orient the map by a certain angle
Crop the map image
Resize the map image
Warp a map according to another projection
Merge of two maps

Integration with GDAL

Loading a map via GDAL
Saving a map via GDAL
Information about a map
Information about a SRS file
GDAL console

Google integration

Downloading and saving maps from Map Servers with automatic calibration
Google Earth 3D viewing integration (map + GPX data)

Web services functions

Autorouting function
Geocoding function
Integration with Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Map Place, Google Street View
Integration with OpenStreetMap
Track search function on the website Wikiloc.com
Website cache search function Geocaching.com
Website integration Peakfinder.org
Integration with other sites for meteorology, cartography and astronomy

Calculation and conversion features

Integration with GpsBabel front-end
Conversion GPX data to vectorial data
Conversion vectorial data to GPX data
Coordinate conversion functions
Coordinate conversion batch functions
Distances and azimuth conversion functions
Distances calculating functions
Areas calculating functions
Grid generator for research teams

Navigation

NMEA 0183 navigation
Automatic map centering during navigation
Automatic switching from one map to another
Display data navigation
Display data on satellites in view
Recording the "active log" track in real time
Storing waypoint in real time (man overboard)
Navigation toward a waypoint
Navigation along a route
Navigation along a track
Waypoint proximity alarm
Anchor alarm

Remote devices and servers

Send tracks and waypoints to remote devices OkMap Server and OkMap Web server (can be purchased separately by writing to info@okmap.org)
Receiving and viewing tracks and waypoints in real time from OkMap Server, OkMap Web server, EasyTrails and OruxMaps remote devices

Supported formats

Supported GPS devices

Upload/download: all new GPS devices that are handled as a mass storage device
Upload/download: GPS devices that implement a proprietary protocol: see Supported GPS devices
NMEA navigation: all GPS devices that support Nmea 0183 protocol

Supported projections

Albers Conical Equal Area
Bonne
Cassini
Hotine Oblique Mercator
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
Lambert Conformal Conic
Lambert Conformal Conic 2SP
Longitude/Latitude (Equidistant Cylindrical / Plate Carrée)
Mercator 1SP
Mercator 2SP
Mercator spherical
Oblique Mercator
Orthographic
Swiss Oblique Cylindrical
Transverse Mercator

Supported languages

Chinese
French
German
English
Italian
Russian
Slovenian
Spanish