Jamie, If you have been working with the Gimp at all, you probably know as much as I do. I have done a few things with layers and layer masks, and some of the plugins. Another interesting set of tools for working with images are the panorama tools with Hugin as the gui. I stitched together 7-images to create a panoramic view from my building lot. I could demo this also. Your problem does sound like a datum thing. I just installed GPSDrive, so once I get it setup, I will see if I have any better luck getting the waypoints to come in to the correct location. My laptop is without a serial port also, so I bought a pcmcia serial adapter. The tech at Juneau Electronics said that the usb/serial adapter or the software for it is kind of kludgy at times. That's why he had the pcmcia adapters in stock. A bit expensive, but it works fine. I would like to get together sometime and compare notes. I will be doing my GPS project at our camp near Ironwood, Michigan. The camp is about a mile inland from Lake Superior and a mile from the Michigan/Wisconsin border. Chuck ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.