Totally Free GPS Software

3D Tracking - Using your mobile phone or PDA, along with your GPS receiver, you can record and view your movements in detail on Google Earth or Google Maps. You can even use the free service for live tracking using Google Earth or Google Maps. Download of the required 3dtracking application, as well as use of the website, is completely free (and there are no future plans to charge for this either). The web server also retains all the data you’ve ever recorded and submitted, so you can always go back and view your older recorded data at any time.

8Motions - is a mobile application, similar in some ways to Google Map, but providing different services. You can do what you are doing with Google Map mobile, but you can also browse and discover geolocalized content on your mobile.

Active GPX Route Player is an easy to use "media player" for GPS files. Load up to 50 tracks and play them all back at the same time synced or true time in Google Earth. A dashboard control gives detailed info on speed, distance, grade, heading, etc. and position is shown against elevation.

amAze - is for the Java-enabled mobile phone, covering the US and 15 European countries. A sample of what it does: Visual and voice guidance to any destination; Search or define any location by its address; Search and navigate to businesses listed in yellow pages directories.

APRS - APRS is free GPS software for use with packet radio by ham radio operators and non-hams alike. You can monitor, in real time, such information as the location of vehicles, current weather, and much more.

Async & RINEX - Programs to log and use raw data from the following Garmin handheld receivers: GPS12, 12XL, II+, III+, Etrex, Emap

BikeAtor (German) - for Motorola A780 - includes touchscreen support and offline raster maps.

BlueGPS is a simple command line tool to download datalogs from the Royaltek RBT-3000 bluetooth GPS receiver under Linux.

BSGPS and then navigate to BSGPS - Free GPS Software to run on Windows laptops. Full support as static maps(screen dumps )and Openstreetmap (completely copyright free) tile maps (moving). Record/playback journeys. Compass/Speedo. Points of interest ( fules/stores etc.) Speed cameras warnings.

Buddy Locator - you can see what your friends are up to. You can locate both them and yourself on the map. And you can see their status just like on any messenger.

Cetus GPS - Cetus GPS for Palm OS is the Swiss Army Knife of GPS tracking and field data collection. It is intended for use by GIS surveyors, scientists, explorers and GPS enthusiasts who need to extend the features of their standard GPS equipment.

Clew - is a chart plotting program. Connect a GPS to your laptop, load some maps, and watch the dots crawl across the map as you drive, sail, etc. It currently works with maps scanned/photographed into the computer and any GPS with NMEA output.

CotoGPS - for Palm OS. Displays position numerically and graphically, capture, calculate and draw distances, tracks and areas. Supports PalmOS 3.0 and up, PalmOS 5, including high resolution mode, HandEra 330 (high resolution, screen resizes), and all NMEA capable GPS devices.

Cumulus - is a program for Qtopia and OPIE, aimed at the soaring community. Cumulus runs on Zaurus and iPaq hardware with a Linux OS. It provides a rich moving map display and all the information you need to easily navigate while requiering a minimum of user-interaction. It uses a NMEA compatible serial or CompactFlash GPS to provide it with information on the current position, altitude, heading and speed.

DGPSIP - A system to send DGPS corrections over the Internet.

DNR Garmin - Provides users the ability to directly transfer data between Garmin GPS handheld receivers and various GIS software packages.

Earthcomber lets users specify types of restaurants, shops, ATMs, hotels, landmarks that it seeks and plots on a map. Just added: spots friends same way, with safety verification. Works with GPS or uses alt-GPS network positioning. Map and data coverage USA only. Supports iPhone, mobile browsers, Palm, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone.

EasyGPS - EasyGPS is free GPS software that allows you to create, edit, and transfer waypoints and routes between your computer and your Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance GPS. EasyGPS connects your GPS to the best mapping and information sites on the Internet, giving you one-click access to street and topo maps, aerial photos, weather forecasts, and nearby attractions. And because EasyGPS is part of the TopoGrafix family of outdoor products, you'll be able to exchange GPS data with EasyGPS and ExpertGPS users all over the world!

eGPSTrack - GPS/J2ME Mobile application for tracking and mountain routes.

EveryTrail - is free GPS software that resides on EveryTrail's server. Upload your tracks and corresponding photos with automated geotagging and share with the community.

flexGPS - FlexGPS enables the manipulation of maps used with a GPS Receiver.

FoxyTag - A system that posts virtual tags close to speed cameras in order to warn the other drivers.

G7ToWin - G7ToWin is free GPS software designed to exchange information between a PC and Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance/Eagle GPS receivers.

Gar2rnx - Gar2rnx allows you to receive coordinates and much more from some Garmin GPS units using undocumented commands.

Garmap CE - Garmap CE runs on PCs or Pocket PCs running Windows CE 2.0 (and maybe later).

GARNIX - GARNIX enables transfer of data between MS-DOS/Windows/Linux computers and a Garmin GPS receiver.

GeoPDF Toolbar turns Adobe Reader into a geospatial application that gives users the ability to view, manipulate and update mapping data while leveraging Adobe collaboration capabilities to share information with others in the field and at home base.

GeoSetter is a freeware tool for Windows for showing and changing geo data of image files (e.g. images taken by digital cameras).

GEOsnapper geo-tags your photos to make them searchable by location. You can also categorize your images via keywords, albums or groups so that they can be found by people who are interested in the same things as you.

GeoTours - On the Geovative Solutions website, you can use GeoTours to easily and quickly create GPS tours that can contain images, audio, and text associated with geographic locations. Once a tour is created, it can then be shared by its owner on the website and downloaded into a number of GPS and non-GPS devices such as numerous Garmin GPS devices, smartphones/PDAs, iPods, or Google Earth.

GEOTracing is a software platform for creating multimedial geo-applications. These applications have in common that they allow you to tell your multimedial story about your movement through the landscape, whether on foot, skates, by bike or other means.

GMAP is a Map editor for GPS maps that runs on linux. It reads GPX, KML and .mp files and writes .mp polish map format files suitable for compiling using the free cgpsmapper compiler.

Gnomad GPS Street Map Viewer for Linux. Gnomad is a mapping tools for Open Systems and GPS's with open specs.

Google Navigator - For the Pocket PC.

GooPs is a companion to Google Earth that shows you where you are in real-time.

GPicSync - automatically inserts location in your photos metadata so they can also be used with any 'geocode aware' application like Picasa/Google Earth, Flickr, loc.alize.us, etc.

GPilotS - GPilotS allows your PalmPilot to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks to and from selected Garmin receivers. It can communicate with map applications to exchange waypoints, routes, and tracks.

GPS3D - GPS3D is a suite of free GPS software utilities to control a handheld GPS receiver from your PC and see the result in 3D. If you don't have a GPS receiver you can use GPS3D to see MapBlast maps in 3D and also interact with a 3D representation of Earth.

GPS3d - is a small application that displays a texture-mapped earth and lets you interactively explore it in 3D. It can also connect to a GPS unit and display in 3D all the info produced by the unit.

GPS4PPC - GPS4PPC is an open source application, written with Basic4ppc. It includes several tools for working with maps and with GPS devices.

GpsActionReplay (GpsAR) is software that enables replays and performance analysis from GPS data, incuding "real time" animation with several tracks, auto-focusing, a time-based controller, auto speed calculation and auto data send (it will send your speed results to whatever server that accepts them, such as (www.gps-speedsurfing.com). It is able to download tracks directly from the GPS without the need of a secondary program such as G7towin. It's a Java application that can be run on any system (including Windows, Linux, Mac), and on any Web browser within an applet (the Java Plug-In must be installed).

GPSBabel manipulates and transfers waypoints, tracks, and routes between receivers and/or popular mapping programs. Currently, about 100 formats are supported. It runs on Windows, OS X, Linux and is used behind the scenes by programs like Google Earth, GPSVisualizer, GSAK, and several others.

GPSCommunicator visually represent NMEA GPS position data in realtime. It works with NMEA 0183 GPS receivers connected via a serial port.

GPS Cookie is companion software to A2B. A2B is a website where you can search for websites related to any place on Earth.

GPSDiag - GPSDiag is free GPS software for 32-bit Microsoft Windows platforms (Windows 95, 98, ME, NT & 2000) to monitor incoming NMEA GPS messages from a serial port.

GPSdings - is a java 1.5 command line tool for the manipulation and analysis of track and waypoint data recorded with a gps receiver.

GpsDrive - is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from the Internet.

GPSed - is a location-based service for trip tracking from mobile. In real time tracks are traced on Google maps and stored in an online archive. With a simple geotagging feature it is possible to pin photos to a map precisely at a place they were taken.

GPSExplorer - is a program for communicating with Garmin GPS units and is easily extended with a plugin functionality.

GPSGO - is the international version of GPSMap-OS, using geographic coordinate calibration so that it works with map images from any source.

GPSion5 - GPSion5 allows a Psion 5mx to communicate with a Magellan 315/320.

GPSMan - GPSMan (GPS Manager) makes for easy and flexible manipulation of GPS data. It allows data transfer and real-time logging for Garmin, Magellan, and Lowrance units.

GPSMap-OS - is a small freeware Pocket PC application that reads Global Positioning System information from NMEA-compatible receivers and plots current and historical position over user-supplied map images in British OSGB format (as used for most maps published by the Ordnance Survey in the UK).

GPSMonitor is a Windows application (using .NET 3.5 runtime) which decodes NMEA strings that come in via a serial connection, and translates them into human readable form, including graphs of satellite azimuth and elevation over time, tabs for several different NMEA strings, and a Google Maps interface.

GPSPhotoLinker - can be used to save location and GPS position data to a photo. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit while you were taking photos can be linked, and saved, to the photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state, and country annotations into the metadata.

GPSS - Run GPSS on your PC and it will give impressive in-car navigation and remote tracking demonstrations. Run on a Laptop with a GPS, and this same GPS Software will work for real. Get free registration, mapping for 155 countries and voice guidance in 12 languages. This includes free street level mapping for all the USA.

GPSTk - provides both fundamental and advanced GPS processing algorithms. A wide array of functions are provided by the library, notably RINEX I/O, ephemeris calculation, atmospheric refraction models, and positioning algorithms.

GPS Track - connects to a GPS and records the path that you travel. Tracks can be uploaded to a web site, sent by email, transferred via Bluetooth, or written to a flash memory card. Google Maps and Google Earth are used to view the tracks. File formats such as GPX and CSV are also supported.

GPS Tracker - allows someone to track a GPS enabled cell phone using Google maps.

GPS TrackMaker - Free GPS software for PC with Microsoft Windows 95 or higher. It creates, edits and deletes tracklogs, routes and waypoints. It has a database with more than 280 different datums and calculates length, instantaneous and average speeds in tracklogs. You can have total navigation on the map image. GPS TrackMaker makes possible the communication between PC and GPS and does much more.

GPS Trail Browser lets you view both the maps and web links contained in an internet map by providing both web browser and a map viewer tabs. In the map viewer, use the internet tool to open web pages and photographs linked to places in the web browser.

GPStrans - GPStrans enables waypoint, track, and route information to be exchanged with a Garmin receiver.

GPSUTIL - is a program to communicate with a GPS unit. It supports several NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) v2.1 messages. GPSUTIL also supports downloading, uploading, and deleting waypoints from a Magellan GPS.

GPS Utility - GPS Utility is an easy-to-use application that provides management, manipulation and mapping of GPS information. You can use it to transfer data to/from a GPS receiver and many other software applications. It is particularly useful for dealing with data in different file formats, datums and grid coordinate systems.

GPS Viewer - shows the time, the current location, the speed, and the moving direction on the display of the mobile phone and runs on all phones, which at least support CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 2.0 and which allow access to Bluetooth (JSR 82) or the serial interface (data cable).

GPS Visualizer is a free on-line utility that creates SVG & JPEG maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, events, customers, real estate, etc.).

GPSylon is able to show maps downloaded from the expedia map servers. It may connect to a gps device and track your position on the maps. At the moment, it is able to read gpsdata in the NMEA standard from a serial gps device, a file or a gps daemon across a network.

GPX2SHP converts GPS or GPX file to ESRI Shape file.

Grazer - writes GPS-GeoData into the Exif-Information of digital pictures. The tagging is done automatically. Only the time on the digital camera needs to be set correctly.

GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) - bills itself as an all-in-one geocaching and waypoint management tool. Major features include: multiple databases, sending/receiving waypoints to GPSr, conversion to many mapping formats, HTML output, extensive searching, macro support, backup and restore, distance/direction from other waypoints.

Happy Camel - is intended to combine your digital camera with your GPS device. If you feed it a list of digital photos and a tracklog, it figures out where these images were taken. It can embed this position in the EXIF-data of your photos and create a .KMZ file for Google Earth or Google Maps displaying your photos at the right positions along the tracklog.

iGKeys - Hotkeys for iNav iGuidance. iGkeys simplifies the usage of iNav iGuidance on laptops.

Kashmir 3D - Kashmir 3D is a program to allow 3D navigation with a GPS device. It also creates landscapes and 3D maps.

J2ME Map - is an interface to GoogleMaps.

JPGParseGPS - A Windows DOS/Console application to parse a directory of JPG files displaying their lat/long values, and optionally: Converts Lat/Long to OSGB Grid position; Displays the date and time the photograph was taken; Creates a GPX way point file.

Karto - allows you to calibrate a scanned map with some known geo-points (Lambert, UTM, etc.) (French).

LaserMap - LaserMap is a mobile GPS/mapping solution for navigation for Windows CE.

Le Petit Poucet - is free software to display and edit GPS routes and tracks in a 3D scene. Le Petit Poucet is targeted at explorers, discoverers, and trekkers.

Livecontacts - is free GPS software for Symbian smartphones (Nokia N95 like devices) and Windows Mobile PDA's. Check in your GPS coordinates by mobile phone and let your friends know where you are.

Loadstone GPS - Free satellite navigation software developed for Symbian Mobile/phones using the Series60 platform. Although Loadstone-GPS is a useful navigational tool for everyone, it is particularly useful for blind and visually impaired people using screen readers such as Talks and Mobile Speak.

LocateA - offers live vehicle tracking locating the live positions of moving objects, whether they be cars, vans, trucks, people, smart phones, or PDAs.

LocEight - allows users to upload their GPS data, add photos, tracks and POIs, and publish it all on Google Internet maps or output it in GPX or KML format. All LocEight records are freely searchable from the Internet.

locr - is geotagging software.

Maemo Mapper - is geographical mapping softare specifically designed for the Maemo platform and the Nokia 770 form factor.

MAPEAR - Free Garmin maps for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and South Brazil. En Español.

MapEditor - manipulate and postprocess the tracks generated by the NavSys system and generate street maps of the area you've been driving through.

MapItPronto - You can use this tool to Upload/View GPS Routes and plot as well as planning a future route. Uploading your GPS route allows you to see it on google maps with statistics such as average speed, ascent, descent, max speed. You can then enable graphs including elevation, speed, and heart rate.

Map Maker - Free map editor and viewer. Gives students and novice users the opportunity to learn the basics of map making and GIS. Gratis can also be used to distribute map projects and data. Add maps to Google Earth.

MapMan - A map generating tool designed primarily for owners of Garmin GPS devices with mapping capability. However owners of other brand devices, devices without mapping, or even those who don’t own a GPS at all, may be able to make use of some of the features.

Map Mobile Navigator (MapNav) - An application for Java2ME-enabled mobile phones and PDAs.

Mapview - is a viewer for Terraserver tiles. It downloads them on-demand and interactively, and lets you overlay a GPS track and edit it.

MapWelt - is a moving map program for PocketPCs and Smartphones with Windows Mobile. It can read a GPS signal and display the position on a map.

Marengo GPS Route Planner - is based on Google maps and is designed specifically to allow users to crate GPX route files for upload to a GPS unit.

MGPS - is free GPS software designed to visualize and edit GPS data. Main features: displays track and waypoint data; displays scanned, calibrated raster maps as background; displays vector maps; 3D display of airspace data; analyze track data (speed, course in a given point etc.); based on the timestamps in digital photographs (from digital cameras) and the track timestamp, the software determines and displays where each individual picture was taken.

Mobile GMaps - displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth) and Ask.com Maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use internal GPS features on some phones in order to automatically display the map for your current position.

MobiRunner can act as as stopwatch/running watch and together with a GPS it can show distance, lap time, speed etc... The website is in Danish but the program is in English.

Mologogo - Not only free software but also a free service that will track a friends GPS enabled cell phone from another phone or on the web. It currently works on pretty much any Nextel phone with Java, GPS and a data plan. It also supports Windows Mobile 5.0 and will shortly have clients for Windows and Windows Smartphone as well.

Moving Map - This app requires either an external Bluetooth GPS or an inbuilt GPS (for example as in the BlackBerry 8800 or the Nokia N95) and provides moving map functionality.

My Tracking - Vehicle tracking for small business and personal use. Works on iDen phones, Windows Mobile PocketPC and smartPhones, and Nokia. Free for personal use.

Nav4All - Navigation software for GPS and cell phone. According to their website, Nav4All is free until January 1, 2010. The anticipated monthly fee will vary between € 0.50 and € 2.00 and free subscriptions will also be available.

NavFun - for Nokia - have all the goodies of Google Maps and Google Earth on your mobile.

NaviExpert - (Polish)

Navigami - for java mobile phones - navigation software for offline navigation and vector maps of all countries of the world.

Navit - is a car navigation system with routing engine. It's modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

Navizon - is a wireless positioning system that triangulates signals broadcasted from Wi-Fi access points and Cellular towers to help the users find their way in most major metropolitan areas worldwide.

Navlet - is a navigation system for mobile devices (PDAs, smartphones, cell phones, etc.). It gets the positioning data from any NMEA capable GPS receiver and displays the position on a digital map. External GPS receivers can be connected via a serial cable or via Bluetooth. If your mobile device is connected to the Internet, Navlet can download maps from a map server, otherwise locally stored maps can be used.

NavSys - is a combined media player / GPS navigation application to be used in a vehicle.

Net::Friends - allows for the reporting to and querying of GPSDrive-style friendsd servers. The friendsd server use simple UDP messages to update and report the most recent known position, speed, and direction of people and things.

NDWGeoTag - This is the Windows version of the two Dos/Console programs GeoTagGpx and JPGParseGPS combined.

NMEASleuth - allows you to inspect NMEA data streams from devices connected via a serial port.

NMEA Compass - A skinnable compass which uses SiRF or NMEA0183 data from your GPS

NMEAP - is an extensible parser for NMEA-0183 (GPS) data, written in portable C.

Nokia Sports Tracker - is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on S60 smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary. To be able to use application for real, you need Nokia S60 3.0 or 3.1 phone with Bluetooth GPS device or Nokia S60 3.0 or 3.1 phone with integrated GPS.

NPGPX - is a Qt-based Netscape plugin that displays GPX files (GPS eXchange) with waypoints, routes, and tracks embedded in a webpage, with optional background maps.

O2PosTrack - is a console based C++ application for retrieving position information from a mobile phone as provided by the (German) O2 mobile phone company.

ODGPS - is a program for Pocket PCs that lets you navigate in any terrain using GPS. It is intended to be small and light and easy to use. Odgps now runs on all sorts of pocket pcs running pocket PC 2003 and higher and with all sorts of GPS devices.

OmniKML - Program to transfer NMEA files to Google Earth (this is a direct download link for a zip file). The site's home page is OmniSTAR.

OpenDMTP - Open Device Monitoring and Tracking Protocol - is a protocol and framework that allows bi-directional data communications between servers and devices (clients) over the Internet and similar networks. OpenDMTP is particularly geared towards Location-based information (LBS) such as GPS, as well as temperature and other data collected in remote-monitoring devices.

OpenGTS - open source project designed specifically to provide web-based GPS tracking services for a "fleet" of vehicles.

OpenTom MP3 Player - So what to do with your precious TomTom GO while you're cruising the neighbourhood at home? No need for navigation - you know the streets by heart. Well, this is the perfect time for some serious rock: The OpenTom MP3 Player. Install on a spare SD card and play all your favorite tunes

OziToGoogleEarth - converts OziExplorer track or waypoint files to "kml" files which can be read by Google Earth. It will also download Garmin track files for display on GoogleEarth.

PerDiemCo Location & Tracking (PLT) - allows you to track your trip and lets others locate and follow you online. You set the passcodes so only those that you want can see your trip. PLT offers privacy and 'a need to know', so you can turn off anyone's ability to locate you at anytime. PLT allows you to access and use your GPS on-the-fly from any location connected to the Internet. For Windows® Mobile PDA or Phone

PocketGPS-Map - views calibrated bitmap maps (moving maps) on PocketPC/WinCE platform. Additionaly it supports using GPS device to retrieve user position and show it (with other marks) in map - making it very handy for geocaching.

Position - is a GNUstep GPS navigator. It requires a GPS receiver that knows the NMEA protocol.

PyGarmin - PyGarmin is a set of Python classes which implement the protocol used by Garmin GPS receivers to talk to each other and to other machines. It is based on the official protocol specification.

PyGPS - records a track, records notes, shows you satellites, shows you your position, shows you on a map. Runs on any machine which supports Python, pygtk, and libglade.

PyTrainer - is a tool to log your sport activities. This software is originally programed for cyclist but it can be used for another type of sportman resistance like runners, swimmers, skiers, mountain bikers, etc... Pytrainer works with your GPS fitness device and it is be able to generate detailed graphics and statistics with your gps data.

qpeGPS - is a program for displaying a moving map centered at the position read from a GPS device. It's an open source project aimed at users of Linux PDA's.

Reperion/PocketReperion - send your GPS location to the Reperion/Pocket Reperion server, which in turn will present your location, track, pictures and audio via a web interface. People can use this interface to track position, and send and receive text and audio messages as well.

RINEX & Async - Is free GPS software to log and use raw data from the following Garmin handheld receivers: GPS12, 12XL, II+, III+, Etrex, Emap.

RoadNav - is an in-car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Roadnav can obtain a car's present location from a GPS unit, plot street maps of the area, and provide verbal turn by turn directions to any location in the USA.

SeaClear - SeaClear is a PC based chart plotter for Windows 2000/XP/NT/95/98/ME. With a GPS connected it displays the current position, speed, heading and other data on the screen. The chart is repositioned and new charts are loaded automatically as needed. You can save tracks to be viewed later and you can manually and automatically enter log book entries. The number of waypoints and routes that can be entered are unlimited. The screen area for charts is maximized with most functions accessed with the right mouse button. Zooming is provided with support for IntelliMouse wheel. SeaClear is created for nautical navigation but can probably be used for other navigation needs.

Smart2go - is a compact program for your mobile that allows you to load maps from around the world.

Software-On-Board (SOB) - is a PC-based navigation program which, when loaded with C-MAP charts and connected to a GPS gives real-time on-screen chart positioning and details such as speed and heading.

S&T Keys - Hotkeys for Microsoft Streets & Trips. S&T Keys simplifies the usage of Microsoft Streets & Trips for GPS navigation use.

TDCGPS - TDCGPS allows GPS data to be used to mark your position on a map. It works with the Psion 3a to read NMEA information from Rockwell and other units.

TinyGPX - processes GPX files from geocaching.com and outputs super-compact HTML file with the essential cache information. This allows you to print out sheets to take with you on the trail that can fit 10-15 caches worth of information per page instead of just one.

TopoShare - For use in North America - This site makes it possible to create, store and share routes and tracks using gpx. You can upload GPS tracks to a personal acount and share them with the rest of the world. You can trace routes on a map, extract a terrain profile and export it to your GPS device.

Tourality - Outdoor GPS multi-player game for mobile phones.

Tourgi - is an online tour guide that delivers audio sightseeing narratives to your computer or mobile device. You can listen at your own pace, while you visit each sight, and your entire travelling party can enjoy a narrated tour of the city.

TrackerGE - takes location data from either a GPS, or APRS data from the internet or the AGWPE program and uses it to plot a (moving) location on Google Earth or OziExplorer. The user can elect to plot a track or just a placemark.

TrackMyJourney - is a mobile-phone GPS package with integrated web-based GPS tracking.

Track Profiler - is a small free utility for exporting GPS track profiles into PNG images. It works with java (version 1.3, 1.4 or 1.5).

TrekBuddy - J2ME application for GPS navigation and tracking. Features Bluetooth GPS, internal (JSR-179), simulator location provider, offline maps, smart GPX / raw NMEA logs, location sharing, waypoints.

Trimble's Planning software - Trimble's Planning software is a powerful stand-alone software tool supporting any form of analysis to determine visibility for GPS, GLONASS, IGSO and geostationary satellites.

Trip Tracker - is a position tracking client-server system. It's designed to assist people in setting up a realtime tracking environment with either a private or public tracking server. The Trip Tracker GPS client sends coordinates to the tracking server to update its position.

Trip Tracker Sportsmate - This application allows GPS users to view and analyse their recreational and sports activities (tracks). The track will be viewed in Gmaps, and users can analyse different metrics (speed, distance, heartbeat, and more). Photos can be added too.

Turbo GPS - flexible off-line GPS application for Windows, available in x86/x64/PPC2003/wm5/wm6.

TUX GPS - The goal of this project is to port uClinux to the Magellan GPS receivers and write the open source firmware that includes navigational and mapping applications using open map and database formats.

USAPhotoMaps downloads USGS aerial photo and topo map data from Microsoft's free TerraServer Web site, saves it on your hard drive, and creates maps with GPS accuracy.

Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Google maps and/or Terraserver maps under it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc.

VisualGPS - With VisualGPS, the azimuth and elevation graph displays all satellites that are in view. Each satellite identifies its pseudo random number (PRN). The survey window displays both position and xDOP (HDOP and VDOP) parameters. The ability for user selectable HDOP/VDOP color thresholds for position averaging make a great utility. You can monitor standard deviation and the effects of selective availability and print the results graphically. It monitors latitude, longitude, altitude, and satellite signal to noise ratios and displays them graphically on the screen. It also allows you to view NMEA sentences as they are received.

Wayfinder Active is a free GPS application for mobile phones with a combination of maps, GPS recording and statistics. With the application installed on your mobile, you will get access to street maps for Europe and North America and a world base map.

Wayp2shp - Wayp2shp allows you to map the tracklines, waypoints, and routes from a Garmin GPS receiver in ESRI's ArcView and ArcExplorer.

Waypoint+ - Waypoint+ is free GPS software that enables one to exchange waypoint, route, and track data between a PC and selected Garmin receivers.

Wayviewer - Java based app offers navigation in Europe and North America.

WIGS is both an API to talk to a GPS receiver over the serial port via the NMEA protocol supported by most GPS receivers, as well as an application that use this API.

WMSBrowser is a WMS client map browser with Bluetooth GPS support and tracking/waypoint features for your mobile phone or PDA. It has built-in maps (can be changed by the user) to save on network costs. It calculates distances, headings and shows height profiles. Tracks/waypoints can be saved to memory card. Two world map WMS definitions (raster and vector) are provided and a small built-in world map.

Windmill LabIML - Windmill LabIML is used to collect live data from your GPS receiver on your laptop.

Wissenbach Map3D - allows you to: plan hiking, skiing, and mountain bike trips; download and upload trails, routes, and waypoints to and from Garmin GPS receivers; plot your GPS track logs on topographic maps or aerial photos; embed links to photographs or web pages in you GPS data; print custom topographic maps or aerial photos on one or many sheets of paper; simulate flying over your trails and view 3 dimensional terrain models of your favorite area; make your own maps; share trail data in GPS Exchange (.gpx) format.

XASTIR - is program for receiving and plotting APRS™ position packets. Development is a collaborative effort of programmers and amateur radio enthusiasts from around the world. Xastir supports many map formats and is highly customizable.

XPort3 - COM port splitter for Windows XP and all GPS/navigation software. Up to 8 virtual ports for simultaneous application usage.

xgps is a simple test client for gpsd with an X interface. It displays current GPS position/time/velocity information and (for GPSes that support the feature) the locations of accessible satellites.

zGPS - is a program for displaying GPS information from an attached GPS unit on the Zaurus, or iPaq handheld.

Free Trial or Demo GPS Software

ActiveTrace - is sports software for Pocket PC and Smartphone.

AgMapper - is GPS mapping software for Windows Mobile driven Pocket PCs. You can map what ever you like and share it with other software packages by using the very common shape file format to store your mapping data. Measure and view areas and lengths using your Pocket PC and compatible GPS unit.

BackCountry Navigator - navigation software for outdoor recreation that runs on your Pocket PC. It displays topographic maps and aerial photography for the United States. When used with a GPS connected to your Pocket PC, it shows your location on a moving, mulitresolution map and guides you to waypoints you import, download or define.

Bungee - is a Windows application that will drive any version of Google Earth to: transfer, convert and display Tracks and Waypoints from Garmin GPS receivers; convert, display and record live NMEA positions from any GPS receiver; convert and display Tracks and Waypoints provided in OziExplorer, GPX, NMEA or CSV formats; playback recorded tracks at actual or compressed speed.

CellGPS - sends the location of the mobile phone to our server (gsm cell identifier or gps information - latitude and longitude). It connects automatically to the server using a predefined GPRS connection, at predefined time periods.

CellPos - records the position of gsm cells automatically using a Bluetooth-capable GPS receiver.

cGPSMapper - creates GPS maps.

CompeGPS has a wide variety of map viewing and GPS data managing software.

ContactMapper is a comprehensive tool combined with the free Skylab geocoding service. This Skylab geocoding service transaltes your contact's address to a worldwide location. ContactMapper is able to operate directly on your already available address book, retrieve the worldwide location of your contact and show this location on a map. There are several maps available for the location visualization like topographic and satellite maps.

eMapZone - is software for preparing a trip on any map picture. The free version of eMapZone is limited to the input of 50 points, and has not the menu Map list. It is however entirely operational and shows all the features of the software, including GPS features.

ExpertGPS - displays your waypoints, routes, and tracks on USGS topo maps and aerial photos.

Fugawi Global Navigator - is a software tool for route planning, GPS programming, and real-time GPS navigation on land, sea and in the air.

Fugawi Marine ENC - you can navigate using many types of raster and vector charts.

GEONiche PalmOS based program designed specifically for geocaching, hiking, fishing, bicycling, and other outdoor activities. Intended for the off-road user.

GPS2CAD - GPS2CAD enables design professionals to easily and inexpensively use recreational-grade GPS units to collect field information and plot it in their CAD program.

GPS Gate - 14 day free trial - Share one GPS among several applications, use Garmin USB GPS receivers with standard GPS applications. Share a GPS over a network, over ActiveSync, or over Bluetooth. Multiplex and split NMEA streams. Track yourself and your friends on GpsGate.com

GPS/J - is dedicated for mobile with BT support (JSR82 (BT API))and gps receivers without display.

GPSMap - use your own maps to display your position, using a Bluetooth-capable GPS receiver.

GPSMapEdit - is designed for visual authoring of GPS-maps in various proprietary cartographic formats.

GPS-Navigator - is GPS based navigation and positioning software for the Sony-Ericsson P800/P900/P910 or Motorola A925/A1000 mobile phone.

GPS Pilot - convert your PDA/smartphone into a navigational assistant.

GPS Simulator - provides a complete suite for all your GPS simulating needs.

GPS Tuner - is an off-road navigation software for Pocket PC devices. It gives you the ability of navigation where the roads end.

GPS Watch is a simple J2ME application that transforms your Mobile Phone into a Global Position Tracking System.

GPSXC - is navigation and track logger software aimed at fulfilling the needs of people practicing open air sports and activities including trekking, hiking, geocaching, mountain bike, paragliding, hanggliding, and sailing.

GPSXtend - View aerial photography & maps and record unlimited points. Easy to use GPS field program, perfect for the professional or recreational enthusiast.

HandMap - turns your PDA into a portable street map.

IBIS - is a collection of navigation and mapping utilities that takes information from a GPS receiver and with maps, road displays, and other types of displays, gives you a complete set of tools for navigation.

Mapwel - Create your own maps for Garmin automotive and handheld GPS; create maps from ESRI SHP MP, GPX, DBX, PLT or WPT files.

MobileTracker - record tracklogs using your mobile device and show them in Google Earth™ or publish them with Google Maps™.

Mobium GPS is GPS navigation software that turns any Windows Mobile smart phone or a Windows Mobile PDA with internet connectivity into a full navigation system.

Navicore - Navigation software for mobile phones.

nhGPS - is GPS navigation software for Symbian UIQ smartphones. nhGPS turns your phone into a full featured GPS device with mapping and tracking capabilities. It works with any Bluetooth GPS receiver, or the built-in GPS chip of Motorola phones.

NMEAlog - A simple logger with sentence selection. Has client/server capabilities for distribution of raw NMEA sentences over a network.

OziExplorer - is mapping software that allows for transfer of routes, waypoints, and tracks for real-time tracking of GPS position. It works with Garmin, Magellan, Eagle, Lowrance, and Brunton/Silva receivers.

PathAway - is all-purpose GPS navigation and mapping software for PDAs and mobile phones.

pcoGarmin - ActiveX component with an extensive Visual Basic example of waypoint, route and track upload/download as well as NMEA sentence processing and GPS screen dumps.

pcoMagellan - ActiveX component with Visual Basic example of waypoint, route and track upload/download as well as NMEA sentence processing. Tested on various models including the GPS315/320, Map410, Tracker, ColorTrak and Meridians.

QuakeMap - is a GPS program for hiking, geocaching, earthquake watching.

QuickGPS - Tracks mobile workforce from your desktop.

Run.GPS - is a tool for sports like running, skiing and walking. It uses GPS to record all of your training parameters like speed, distance and altitude.

SeeYou Mobile - Glider pilot software by navITer.

Smartcom GPS - is designed for all Symbian phones. It is compatible with external BT GPS receivers, and internal aGPS receiver of Motorola A920/925/1000.

SmartNavigator - allows you to record the track of your movements and display it on a map. VITO SmartNavigator supports vtm maps available at our site. Users can create their own maps by using a free desktop application VITO MapManager.

Spot - Orientation, routing, tracklogs, waypoint and POI management.

TopoFusion - is GPS mapping software for Windows. It downloads maps (topo and aerial photo) automatically from Microsoft's TerraServer and stores them on the hard drive.

Tracky - is a navigation utility for many outdoor activities, like hiking, (mountain)biking, skiing, driving, sailing, and even golf, city trips, and geo-caching. Tracky runs on any handheld device, running Microsoft® PocketPC (PocketPC 2003 or higher e.g. Windows Mobile 5.0). Phone enabled PocketPCs are supported, not Windows Mobile Smartphones.

Veripath - Voice and GPS-based navigation application for mobile devices.

VI GPS - shows current GPS data (speed, direction, longitude, latitude, time, date, height); open any of scanned maps (in a "bmp" or "dib" format); calibrate the scanned maps yourself by two calibration points only (left-top and right-bottom); calibrations are stored automatically for every map, you do not need to calibrate a map next time; you can see your route line at the map.

Wayfinder Navigator - For mobile phones and a Bluetooth receiver.

Wisepilot - is a GPS navigation system for mobile phones, smartphones, Blackberry® and PDAs that guides you to your destination through voice instructions and maps.