Provided are GPS-Routes of hiking trails on Santo Antão, São Nicolau and São Vicente, Boa Vista, Maio, Santiago jointly with a top-quality programme for upload and download on a Mini-CD Rom.

GPS for Hiking - an introduction

"GPS" stands for Global Positioning System and allows precise orientation and navigation worldwide by use of satelllite signals.
All you need is a portable receiver, the size of a cellular phone. The device does not only help you to find your routes. It also writes a track of your itinerary, calculates distances, speed and time elapsed to the next target. This way, hikers keep a set of "Signposts in a pocket" with a precison of +-10 m.

Routes, Tracks and Waypoints are stored in the internal memory. USB or serial interfaces allow upload and download of data from PCs. Almost all GPS programmes allow to use a mapfile as a background.

From many thousands of GPS waypoints needed to design our hiking-maps, we selected the routes for clients, perfectly in accordance to our maps and guidebook texts.

TRACKMAKER® is an outstanding shareware developped by Odilon Ferreira Junior and our favourite for up- and download of GPS-Data. Odilon has authorized us to distribute his software on our Mini-CD-Rom.  The only condition for use of his programme is the declaration never to use it for purpose detremenatal to the environment.
Trackmaker connects to more than 100 GPS-Receivers made by Garmin®, Lowrance®, Magellan®, MRL® and   Brunton/Silva® .

®  registered trademarks of firms mentioned

 

GPS Data on Mini-CD-Rom

The latest Version contains a directory per every one of the islands preferred by hikers, covered by our maps:

BV	tracks on Boa Vista
MA	tracks on Maio
SA	tracks on Santo Antão PL_all.gmt  district of Paúl RG_all.gmt  district of Rª Grande PN_all.gmt  district of Porto Novo
SN	tracks on São Nicolau
ST	tracks on Santigao
SV	tracks onSão Vicente
Trackmak	Program GPS Trackmaker

Data are presented in two file-formats:

1. *.xls   MS Excel spreadsheets for typing in
2. *.gtm data-files for  TRACKMAKER for upload

Example Data:

316	Route	Copyright: Reitmaier Fortes
Waypoint	Designation	North South	°	´	East West	°	´
SUL101	VOQUIN LOJA	N	16	58.882	W	25	11.912
SUL009	PEDRA JORGE	N	16	59.069	W	25	11.657
SUL008	LISPENSE CHAFARI	N	16	59.585	W	25	12.434
BORD01	Pedra negra	N	16	59.914	W	25	12.887
BORD02	Subida	N	17	00.004	W	25	13.084
BORD03	Pe Tome	N	17	00.369	W	25	13.429
BORD04	Tampa Tome	N	17	00.859	W	25	13.744
BORD05	-	N	17	01.157	W	25	14.098
BORD06	-	N	17	01.448	W	25	14.090
BORD07	-	N	17	01.839	W	25	14.021
BORD08	Bons Sonhos	N	17	02.276	W	25	13.964
NORT16	BORDEIRA NORTE	N	17	02.437	W	25	13.888

Download Example Data of Route 316 called Example.gtm and table Example.xls in a zip-file.