Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange

Resources for Help in Locating Turnpoints and Using the GPS

Contents

• Mapping Tools

• Airport Information

• Name and Location Tools

• GPS/GNSS Resources

• GPS Software

• Flight Planning, Analysis, and Turnpoint Manipulation Software

• FAI/IGC

• Flight Computers and Loggers

• Miscellaneous

• Mappy® [ 11 November, 2002 ]

• MapBlast®

• MapQuest®

• U.S. Bureau of the Census Data Access Tools and the Tiger Mapping Service

• The SeisSoft® Coordinate Projection Programs

• Maps on Us®

• Etak Guide® [ 17 February, 1998 ]

• TopoZone® [ 02 December, 1999 ]

• Expedia® [ 16 February, 2000 ]

• TerraServer ( from MicroSoft ) [ 19 August, 1998 ]

• OnEarth ( from NASA ) [ 24 March, 2005 ]

• Topografix [ 20 July, 2001 ]

• Great Circle Mapper [ 07 October, 2001 ]

• Terrafly [ 18 May, 2003 ]

• Country Boundaries [ 13 June, 2004 ]

• GoogleEarth Library US Sectionals [ 03 June, 2007 ]

• Information about the maps for which the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange provides links

• Airnav ( from Paulo Santos )

• Airport IQ 5010 ( from CGR ) [ 20 March, 2006 ]

• FPlan [ 10 December, 2002 ]

• FAA's National Flight Data Center

• FAA's PilotWeb

• Aeroplanner [ 16 August, 2001 ]

• Topograix [ 18 January, 2003 ]

• OpenAIP (Worldwide aviation database) [ 23 April 2017 ]

• NOAA's list is detailed but very limited in the number of airfields.

• ICAO Location Finder ( from the FAA )

• RunwayFinder ( courtesy of Dave Parsons ) [ 14 March, 2006 ]

• SkyVector [ 15 March, 2006 ]

• GPX Avitaion Waypoint Generator ( courtesy of Paul Tomblin ) [ 08 January, 2007 ]

• Navigation Data Wiki ( courtesy of Paul Tomblin ) [ 08 January, 2007 ]

• USGS: Geo Names Information Service [ 07 September, 2008 ]

• Landings [ 02 February, 2003 ]

• USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS )

• National Imagery and Mapping Agency

• National Geodetic Survey

• The World Factbook ( from the Central Intelligence Agency ) [ 07 September, 2008 ]

• US Geological Survey ( USGS ) server of geographic names information about the United States and US-administered areas.

• Swopnet [ 01 December, 2001 ]

• TAMU - Commerce Waypoint Server

• University of Michigan's Geographic Name Server

• Geocoding Server

• GEOnet Names Server access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's ( NIMA ) database of foreign geographic feature names.

• Australian Geographic Names [ 29 January, 2002 ]

• Querying Canadian Geographical Names ( from National Resources Canada )

• The New Zealand Place-Names Database ( from Land New Zealand ) [ 21 October, 1997 ]

• UK Ordnance Survey - Gazetteer of Place Names

• Internet Waypoint Repository

• WayPoint ( from FAR ) [ 01 December, 2001 ]

• USA GPS Waypoint Server ( from Rocky Mountain College ) [ 5 March, 1998 ]

• GPS Waypoint Pointers [ 22 July, 1998 ]

• Lat/Lon Finder for the US ( from Juggling Information Services ) [ 31 January, 2000 ]

• Global Gazeteer ( from Carl Rosenberg ) [ 31 March, 2000 ]

• South African Waypoints [ 26 December, 2000 ]

• NIMA2GPS [ 17 November, 2001 ]

• LANDOUT ( from Carl Herold ) [ 13 June, 2002 ]

• Airports.de [ 06 May, 2004 ]

• GPS Resources ( from Sam Wormsley at Iowa State )

• Peter Bennett's FTP directory or here. It is also mirrored here

• An Overview of GPS ( maintained by The University of Texas Dept of Geography )

• Coordinate Systems Overview ( maintained by The University of Texas Dept of Geography )

• Map Projections Systems Overview ( from Peter Dana, maintained by The University of Colorado Dept of Geography ) [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• Geo Community [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• University NavStar Consortium

• Navstar GPS Internet Connections ( compiled by Richard B. Langley )

• TECH NOTES: A Guide to Internet GPS Resources

• sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup mini-FAQ ( compiled by Skeeter Abell-Smith )

• Introduction to GPS Applications ( from John Beadles ) [ 1 November, 1997 ]

• GPS Averaging ( from Paul Ross ) [ 24 November, 1997 ]

• Practical Guide to GPS - UTM ( from Don Bartlett ) [ 06 September, 2000 ]

• GPS Information Website ( from Joe Mehaffey, Jack Yeazel and Dale DePriest ) [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• GPSMan - freeware program for Linux developed by Miguel Filgueiras [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• GPilotS - freeware program for PALM [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• Geographic Data Technology, Inc. Cartographic bases for everyone [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• Digital Chart of the World Server ( from Penn Statue Univeristy Libraries ) [ 12 October, 2003 ]

• SA Watch ( from KaWin ) [ 22 September, 1998 ]

• Dale De Priest's Navigation and GPS Articles [ 30 April, 2003 ]

• Waypoints from SwopNet [ 17 July, 2001 ]

• Waypoints from GoToNext [ 17 July, 2001 ]

• gps.start4all.com [ 01 December, 2001 ]

• Startpagina/ [ 05 July, 2003 ] http://www.postfrontal.com/gps/

• FlexGPS®

• Gardown® executable [ zipped ]

• GarMax® ( from Crabb Computing ) [ 10 January, 2001 ]

• GARtrip®, or GARtrip®.

• Waypoint+® [ 09 April, 1998 ]

• OziExplorer for Lowrance's GlobalNav 200 and EagleMap ( from Des Newman )

• G7toWin (  A Windows 9X/Windows NT 4.0/Win2K program, designed to transfer data between Garmin or Lowrance/Eagle GPS units and a PC, from Ron Henderson ) [ 30 December, 2001 ]

• GPSDump ( Download IGC formatted files from Garmin and upload turnpoints  ) ( from Stein Sorenson ) [ 02 March, 2003 ]

• Garload ( A BSD Unix program that supports upload and download of waypoints and tracklogs to most Garmin GPS. ) [ 12 February, 2001 ]

• G902IGC ( An MS-DOS program that downloads Garmin tracklogs and saves them in IGC standard format. ) [ 12 February, 2001 ]

• AVI_DBM ( gives full access to the aviation database that Garmin International Inc supply for their GPS 89, 90, and 95 AVD/XL models. )

• GPSS® ( freeware from Robin Lovelock ) [ 27 March, 1998 ]

• GPSy® ( GPSy Macintosh GPS Communications ) [ 5 November, 1997 ]

• MacGPS ( free software for linking a Garmin to a Macintosh ) [ 27 March, 1998 ]

• MacGPS Pro® [ 13 June, 2004 ]

• Quo Vadis® GPS, Moving Map, and Route Planning Software [ 1 September, 1998 ]

• Topografix® Easy GPS Software for Garmin, Lowrance, and Magellan [ 24 January, 2003 ]

• GPS Visualizer ( from Adam Schneider ) [ 21 April, 2003 ]

• FlightTrack ( from Gautier Taravella: MacOS X open-source; downloads tracks from a GPS and displays them above a 3D rendered terrain; reads and writes IGC files. ) [ 29 April, 2003 ]

• Convert IGC file to GoogleEarth ( from QFU ) [ 24 January, 2006 ]

• TrackMaker ( communication for GPS and data treatment ) [ 09 August, 2003 ]

• Anywhere Map [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• GPS Pilot [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• Fly Map [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• Karten Team [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• Euro Telematik [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• BlueMap CE [ 22 March, 2004 ]

• 3-D Tracer ( from J. Bogan ) [ 04 November, 2000 ]

• CAL ( from Hans Trautenberg )

• Coutraci ( in French ) or Coutraci ( in English ) ( from Yves Coutureau ) [ 10 January, 2002 ]

• DMST from Christoph Gauss or from Lothar Dittmer [ 02 January, 2001 ]

• FAI Triangle Calculator© ( from Andrew Roos )

• Flight Check ( from Tim Newport-Peace )

• Flight Display ( from Henryk Birecki ) [ 12 September, 2001 ]

• kartenTEAM [ 08 June, 2003 ]

• BlueMap [ 08 June, 2003 ]

• FlightPlanner ( from Ifos ) [ 03 November, 2000 ]

• FlightMap [ 26 January, 2000 ]

• FlightPro [ 12 March, 1999 ]

• flyWithCE ( from Uros Podlogar ) [ 25 April, 2000 ]

• Garmin Track to IGC ( from Ian Molesworth via Tim Newport-Pearce ) [ 17 October, 1998 ]

• Garmin Track to IGC ( from Ken Sparkes ) [ 16 March, 1999 ]

• GC-Calc ( from the Geelong Gliding Club ) [ 07 October, 2008 ]

• Glider ( from Johny Johansen ) [ 04 November, 2000 ]

• Glide Plan ( from Matt Herron ) [ 22 January, 2007 ]

• Global Mapper [ 22 January, 2007 ]

• GPLIGC ( from Hannes & Jan M.W. Krüger ) [ 18 February, 2003 ]

• IGC to Delorme ( from Ken Sparkes and Jonathon Gere ) [ 25 March, 1999 ]

• Tom-Tom Navigator [ 23 March, 2003 ]

• IGCview ( from Ian Forster-Lewis ) [ 16 March, 2008 ]

• KFlog ( from Heiner Lambrecht ) [ 17 June, 2005 ]

• MyGPS [ 24 March, 2005 ]

• MapGlide ( from G. Schneid?? ) [ 06 July, 2000 ]

• Opti [ 24 March, 2001 ]

• PathCalc [ 12 March, 1999 ]

• PointVir ( from Etienne Cendron ) [ 25 April, 2001 ]

• SeeYou ( from Erazern Polutnik and Andrej Kolar ) [ 29 October, 2000 ]

• Soar ( from Luc Beerts ) [ 02 March, 2003 ]

• Soaring Flight Viewer ( from Wiktor Kozlik ) [ 15 January, 2008 ]

• IGC flight replay

• Streckenflugplanner ( from Michael Rübig ) [ 01 November, 2000 ]

• Strecke_GPS [ 20 June, 2004 ]

• StrePla ( from Klaus Langelüddeke )

• TaskFinder ( from Ken Sparkes )

• TaskNav ( in English, from David Robertson ) [ 10 February, 2001 ], TaskNav ( in French, from Etienne Cendron ) [ 25 April, 2001 ], and TaskNav ( in Swedish, from Robert Danewild ) [ 26 January, 2000 ]

• TaskPlan for DOS ( from Jan Olav Enderud )

• Task Planner ( from Don Malin ) [ 15 August, 1999 ]

• Trackalyzer ( from Per Laursen, in Danish ) [ 23 July, 1998 ]

• XCPAS ( from Karel Termaat )

• XCSoar [ 29 October, 2007 ]

• Yet another IGC file analysis program ( from Gerhard Wesp  ) [ 05 August, 2001 ]

• YAGATE (Yet Another GArmin Tracklog Emptier) ( from Per Laursen ) [ 19 July, 2000 ]

• Zweef ( from Jan Ritsma  )

• GlidePlan ( from Matt Herron ) [ 11 March, 2009 ]

• The Use of GNSS Flight Recorders for Flight Documentation in Competitions and for Badges and Records [ 11 January, 2001 ]

• Analysis Programs [ 11 January, 2001 ]

• GNSS Technical Specification

• Approved Flight Recorders [ 11 January, 2001 ]

• Freeware Short Programs [ 11 January, 2001 ]

• Sporting Code Section 3 [ 11 January, 2001 ]

• Borgelt [ 08 February, 2003 ]

• Cambridge Aero Instruments

• CEGlide [ 30 March, 1999 ]

• Cenfis/Holltronic [ 12 March, 1999 ]

• ClearNav [ 15 November, 2014 ]

• Colibri [ 25 March, 2000 ]

• CFXK Palm [ 19 February, 1999 ]

• EW [ 10 June, 2001 ]

• Filser

• FlyWithCE [ 03 September, 2000 ]

• Garmin
  • Garmin GPS as a Flight Recorder ( from Ruud Holswilder ) [ 26 January, 2000 ]
  • Handheld GPS Receivers as Flight Recorders ( from Tom Pressley ) [ 12 February, 1999 ]
  • Downloading and Displaying Flights ( from Mark Hawkins, Tidewater Soaring Society ) [ 08 April, 2000 ]
  • Uploading Waypoints ( from Mark Hawkins, Tidewater Soaring Society ) [ 08 April, 2000 ]

• GPS-LOG ( from Henryk Birecki )

• Ilec GmbH or the SN-10 demo [ 08 February, 1999 ]

• LX Navigation [ 21 February, 2003 ]

• NMEA Recorder ( from Nick Bonnière ) [ 26 January, 2000 ]

• palm pilot ( from Patrick Nolle ) [ 17 November, 1999 ]

• Peschges

• PrintTechnik GR1000 [ 24 July, 1998 ]

• SDI/Posigraph [ 28 October, 2000 ]

• SoaringPilot ( from Oliver Spatscheck ) [ 16 June, 1999 ]

• Volkslogger [ 23 April, 2001 ]

• WinLog [ 20 February, 2009 ]

• WinPilot® [ 10 February, 1999 ]

• Westerboer [ 15 April, 2000 ]

• Zander

• A review of IGC approved Flight Recorders ( from RD Aviation Ltd ) [ 1 September, 1999 ]

• Aviation Formulary ( from Ed Williams )

• Latitude-Longitude to UTM ( from Vic Fraenckel ) [ 9 December, 1997 ]

• The Weather Calculator ( from El Paso NWS ) [ 7 December, 1998 ]

• Latitude-Longitude to/from UTM ( from Geodetic Survey of Canada ) [ 24 March, 2000 ]

• Coordinates, Datums, and Transormations ( from Bob Burch ) [ 15 November, 1997 ]

• Conversion between UK Ordnance Survey Grid References and Lat/Long ( from Tim Newport-Peace ) [ 26 March, 1998 ]

• Latitude/Longitude to UTM Conversions ( from GPSy® ) [ 24 March, 2000 ]

• Aeroplanner US aviation charts [ 27 November, 2001 ]

• Mapping Datum Transformation ( MADTRAN )

• Pete Kelley's Musings on the Use of GPS in Soaring

• Tim Newport-Peace's Guide to Downloading Flight Recorders [ 04 April, 2002 ]

• Sunrise/set times ( from the US Naval Observatory® ) [ 23 October, 1999 ]

• The World Clock [ 27 March, 2001 ]

• The World Time Server [ 09 December, 2001 ]

• Finish Line Calculation Program ( from Dale Kramer ) [ 19 February, 2003 ]

• SoarCont Scoring Program ( from Jim Bobo® ) [ 10 June, 1999 ]

• WinScore Scoring Program ( from Guy Ford Byars® ) [ 01 March, 1999 ]

• Delorme File Formats [ 11 August, 1999 ] ( from John and Beth Werner )

• IGC to Street Atlas Converter ( from Don Malin ) [ 15 August, 1999 ]

• Gliding Glossary ( from Karin Hülsemann and Philippe Lagarrigue ) [ 16 October, 1999 ]

• XML/XSL for Soaring Turnpoints ( from Stephen A. Mattin, Nadler & Associates )

• GPX ( from Dan Foster ) [ 24 March, 2005 ]

• The Gliding Companion [ 21 February, 2000 ]

• Palm Software Checklist ( Del Olgren ) [ 01 April, 2000 ]

• Country Codes ( ISO 3166 Maintainence Agency - DIN ) [ 22 April, 2000 ]

• Airplan [ 10 May, 2001 ]

• FAI's distance calculation [ 02 April, 2002 ]

• Electronic World Encyclopedia [ 09 December, 2001 ] GPS Map for Apple Newton PDA's [ 15 December, 2001 ]

• Liftoff Satellite Position Display [ 30 December, 2001 ]

• NOAA GOES Soundings

• 3D Depiction of flights ( from Charlie Thaeler ) [ 06 October, 2002 ]

• TFR's (Temporary Flight Restrictions [ 18 December, 2002 ]

• NOTAMs [ 18 December, 2002 ]

• IGC File plotting [ 15 May, 2004 ]

• Gliding.start4all.com [ 26 August, 2001 ]

• Landings [ 26 August, 2001 ]

• Paul Remde [ 18 February, 2002 ]

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