GooPs

1/28/08 - GooPs Version 2.3 Released - Limit tracks by date, enhancements, bug fixes

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Plug a GPS into your laptop -- Fire-up GooPs -- Jump into your car, boat, or plane -- and get ready for the Ride of Your Life!

Track yourself in breathtaking 3D with Google Earth and GooPs, an amazing companion to Google Earth that shows you where you are in REAL-TIME!
Watch yourself zooming through the landscape, while laid out behind you is a colorful track showing your traveled path and speed.
Use all of Google Earth's fantastic zooming and panning features to survey the landscape around you as you travel. Or use GooPs' built in AutoView feature for hands free control of tilt, rotation, and zoom.
GooPs is great for all types of vehicles, land, sea, or air and is compatible with almost any GPS (NMEA).
No network connection is required (you can pre-load your trip into Google Earth and run standalone)
Use GooPs' built in record/playback capability to re-live your trip (Pro only), or save your trip directly to Google Earth as KML
Track your friends and family too! GooPs can track other GooPs users if you have peer-to-peer network visibility (mobile vpn or static IP) - no servers or monthly subscriptions required. GooPs can now track Mologogo and GpsGate users!

What is GooPs?
GooPs is a compact plug-in that enables real-time tracking and navigation in Google Earth. GooPs allows you to see your current location in Google Earth in real-time and keeps a track history of where you have been, including timestamps and speed. GooPs gives you the performance and capabilities of systems costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars more. GooPs works with most modern GPS units and can track other GooPs users and users on the popular Mologogo.com and GpsGate.com location servers. GooPs can also upload your location to the GpsGate.com server.

GooPs Features:
GooPs comes in three versions, Free, Plus, and Pro. GooPs Free is the free version that contains all of the core features that have made GooPs so popular. GooPs Plus has all of the great core features plus some of the most popular advanced features like AutoView and SpeedTrack. GooPs Pro gives you all of the advanced features and unlimited tracking.

Basic Features (included in all versions):

Classic 3D Cursors - make it easy to see your current position and heading from any angle.
Custom Image Cursors – see your own car in Google Earth (supports most image formats).
Real-time Tracks - see where you and your friends have been (tracks can be saved to kml or kmz).
Track your friends - track up to two other GooPs, Mologogo, or GpsGate users
Full Native Google Earth View Navigation - adjust your zoom, rotation, and tilt from Google Earth - no need for secondary interfaces.
Integrated FTP client - allows you to share your trips with friends and family in real-time.
Save your trips to Google Earth or a file (kml) - allows you to easily archive your trips with the press of a button.

GooPs Plus Features:

More Tracking - track up to five GooPs users
SpeedTrack - track color shows how fast you are going any place on your trip.
AutoView - hands free tilt, rotation, and zoom based on speed – no more fussing with controls while driving.
TimeStamps - shows when you were where you were.
Floating GPS Data Window - for easy viewing of your current speed, altitidue, and heading.
Tracking Device Support - for Sanav GC101 and Laipac S-911 tracking devices.

GooPs Pro Features:

Unlimited tracking - track as many GooPs users as you like.
Lifelike 3D Model Cursors - Model your own car or use one of the thousands of models available at the Google 3D warehouse.
NMEA log record and playback - record and playback a log of your trip
Fully configurable AutoView - configure AutoView to your own preferences via the GooPs configuration file.
PointMarkers - make your path a known width.

Note on tracking:
If you need to track a large fleet of vehicles you don't need to buy GooPs Pro for each vehicle. You can run GooPs Pro on just the system that is doing the tracking. and run GooPs Free or GooPs Plus in the vehicles being tracked.

Realistic 3D Model Cursors

GooPs Feature Comparison
	GooPs Free	GooPs Plus	GooPs Pro
Fast real-time tracking	*	*	*
Remote Tracking	Two vehicles	Five vehicles	Unlimited
Mologogo/GpsGate Tracking	*	*	*
Tracking Device Support		*	*
Floating GPS Data WIndow		*	*
SpeedTrack		*	*
AutoView		Pre-configured	Fully Configurable
Classic 3D Cursors	*	*	*
Image Cursors	*	*	*
Lifelike 3D Model Cursors			*
Real-time tracks	*	*	*
TimeStamps		*	*
PointMarkers			*
Record/Playback NMEA Log			*
Native Google Earth View Control	*	*	*
Integrated FTP Client	*	*	*
Save trip to Google Earth	*	*	*

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System Requirements:

Tested on Windows Vista, XP Pro and Home editions (may work on others).
Google Earth - (not required for server only capability)
No network connection required (except of course if you want to track other GooPs users).
TCP/IP network capability is required although the network does not have to be connected.
NMEA GPS (most) - works with RS232, USB, Bluetooth.

Use Franson GpsGate to expand GooPs connectivity options in two ways:

Use the built-in GooPs/GpsGate.com location server integration - details here.

Run the Franson GpsGate software directly on your system:

Run GpsGate on your PDA or cell phone and have it forward your GPS data to GooPs/GpsGate running on your home computer.
Use GpsGate as a server based position sharing solution for GooPs - no need for a VPN or static IP address.
GpsGate allows you to run GooPs and other GPS applications at the same time from a single GPS.
Get Franson GpsGate here!