Pda gps map software

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Multiple tracks can be displayed at a time, and using the Overlay properties you can toggle the track display on and off. AutoTrack is a feature that allows you to draw, either freehand or by point and click, a path on a map. Strange you say we already have routes so why would we want this. Well there is a subtle difference.

The Memory-Map tracks are stored as a sequence of trackpoints all in one track. A route is stored as a list of linked waypoints, the waypoints need to exist to create the route. Essentially if you do not need navigation instructions then the AutoTrack feature is for you. This allows you to draw your planned path and then follow it using your GPS. This saves a lot of space, but more importantly you don't need a waypoint for each section of your journey.

The image to the left is a track downloaded from the Garmin Geko Unfortunately the batteries failed during the return journey. When I imported the track to the desktop I used AutoTrack to add a new track to complete the trip log. Click on the map for a full sized image. Other Features Memory-Map Navigator has many other features but these are not related to its use for the PocketPC, it can interface to traditional GPS units such as Garmin and many others, you can create picture or other file attachments to waypoints, you can change the icons displayed with way points, etc.

This review has focused on the features used to create, communicate and analyse data used with Pocket Navigator. Memory-Map is targeted at the recreational user. This software is useful for and used world-wide by hikers, bikers, off-roaders, sailors, and pilots, plus many more.

Memory-Map can license the software for commercial applications. PC ActiveSync connection including 3. You have to acquire commercially calibrated maps a good selection is supplied by Memory-Map or create and calibrate your own maps then download them to the Pocket PC. Installation is a little unusual in that it is started from within the PC Navigator application. It is a really simple process. If you own MM then Memory-Map is installed as a separate application. However they seem to share the same drivers and you cannot run both together.

The Pocket Navigator application does not need any licensing as it takes the registration details from the PC application. Once installed all you need to do is download a map and off you go. As you can see from the graphic above This is used to send maps, database items, and to transfer tracks, routes and waypoints to and from your PDA. These are created by Navigator either by using them natively, or by converting different formats when downloading to the PDA.

You do not have to worry about these conversions the Navigator software handles all the intricacies. All you need to do is select the area you need to transfer. You can send either the visible display window to the PDA, or the entire chart.

Memory-Map like other applications of this type use raster image maps. Unlike vector maps raster maps are scanned bitmap images and therefore will look identical to traditional paper maps.

Because of this the maps and charts can be extremely large, particularly the full OS map sections. So it would be quite reasonable to store a number of the Nautical charts on a storage card, but impractical to store whole OS map sections. The trick is to be selective about which areas you need map detail for and load the OS GB Route Planner giving full coverage of the country, and where you need , scale maps select the area you require.

I have 3 Mb CF cards which I use to store my maps on. I can see that I will n eed to buy some more cards soon for the k maps. Of course you can organise all your maps on a PC and just copy the ones you need onto a storage cards as you need them. If you are planning an extended trip then you must ensure that you have the maps for the regions you are visiting loaded on your PDA or storage cards as to transfer additional maps you need access to you PC with Navigator on it.

Using the software When you start the last map or chart you had opened is displayed. If the map you last used is not available then the map selection screen is shown as displayed on the left. Pocket Navigator uses a combination of toolbar buttons, menus and tap and hold context sensitive menus to control it's functionality. This can be quite confusing at times as it is not always intuitive and can sometimes be difficult to select the appropriate item when you have a waypoint, track and route all located at the same point.

In fact the user interface is not very intuitive and takes a little time to get used to. After a little usage it becomes much easier, and is worth the effort. The Toolbar There are a number of icons on the screen which provide status information, or allow fast control of the application. This toolbar is permanently displayed and docked to the bottom of the display.

The next two buttons control the zoom function of the display. The zoom works by doubling or halving the information shown on the screen. The next button is the Alternative View toggle button. The alternative view allows you to quickly toggle between two different zoom levels of the same map or chart.

The padlock button at first was confusing, but after a quick scan of the help file it turns out to be a GPS lock. When pressed it will have a white background and the GPS location will be locked in position on the screen, the map will move to keep the GPS position visible. If you drag the map then the lock will retain the current relative position on the screen.

If you do not have a GPS fix then the padlock will be greyed out. The next icon is the data button. When this is toggled and the display is tapped a small data popup is displayed. This shows the co-ordinates of the tapped location, and if the GPS is active the distance and bearing to the point is shown.

The final button is an information symbol. This is normally greyed out and only becomes active when there is a problem with the GPS communications. Tapping on this button displays the error message from the GPS interface. This will display the settings dialogue shown to the far right. From this display you can set the main options for the software. There are not many items selectable the main ones being the Units, and the position display.

The units can be set to either Nautical, Statute, or Metric. This will affect the way that distances, and heights are reported. You can also assign hardware buttons to zoom in and out. There are options to show the map scale and altitude where available. Click on the picture for a full size image In Use The system is a little difficult to use initially and it takes a little getting used to.

On the first impression there is not much functionality in the application. This is not the case, there may be just a single menu with a few items on it but most of the features are accessed by tap and hold context sensitive menus. As with similar applications you need to ensure that the map s covering the area s you are traveling to are loaded into the PocketPC, or storage card, and off you go.

If you have a GPS configured then as soon as you start the application the GPS interface is started and you position is displayed. You must tap the padlock button to ensure that the current location is on screen. All routes, tracks and waypoints are grouped together and referred to as Overlays. Waypoints are called 'Marks' in Navigator. The menus allow you to hide or show either all groups or individual groups. Individual items such as routes or tracks can be hidden, but to show them again you need to show all again.

The other group shown in the menu is charts, this shows an outline on the screen when other maps overlap the currently displayed map. New in Pocket Navigator is a List option. This goes a long way to help the management of overlays. It allows access to all the different types of overlay and to the associated property pages. This makes the management and modification of waypoints, marks, routes, and textnotes easy. I would still like to see more of a tree structure so that all waypoints for a particular area can be grouped together under say Langdales, and those for other areas in another folder or group.

This displays the screen shown on the left. New in Memory-map is the SiRF protocol. Although there is a Model listbox this is fixed for all options of Manufacturer.

You then select the comms port and speed and off you go. Depending on the type of GPS manufacturer selected options are enabled to either import or export your tracks, routes and mark to the GPS unit. This is not documented in the help. Out of curiosity I connected the Garmin Geko to the iPaq and managed to successfully transfer waypoints, routes and tracks between the two devices. The other GPS related displays provide information about your position and the number and strength of signal being received.

The image to the left shows your current position speed, altitude, and average speed. The picture to the right shows the satellite status. This is the only status display in the system. There are no NMEA output, or traditional sky view displays. One of the properties of the position is a "velocity vector", this shows how far you will travel if you keep on the same course and speed.

Marks or Waypoints Pocket Navigator uses the term Mark for traditional waypoints. I am not really sure where "Mark" originated, but Garmin use it on their handheld GPS devices, I guess it probably came from creating a pencil mark on a map. These marks can be assigned different symbols to indicate what the waypoint actually is. Waypoints can be associated with files making them hotspots.

Waypoints can also define a radius around a waypoint making a proximity alarm. Creating a waypoint is done from the Overlay menu using "Create Mark". Once you have selected this you tap on the screen at the point where you want the waypoint placed. Waypoints are created with default settings.

To change them you need to tap and hold on the waypoint which will bring up a context sensitive menu giving options for: Navigating to the mark, Opening a file, Hiding it, locking it, sending it to the GPS Garmin or Magellan , removing it, or displaying it's properties.

Click for full size Image. The properties display shown above right enables various aspects of the waypoint to be configured. Firstly you can name it the default name is "Mark". There appears to be no restriction insisting on unique names so if you are not careful you will end up with lots of waypoints called Mark.

The tick box Label indicates if the waypoint name is to be displayed on the map. This is great for primary waypoints such as Mountain peaks, or for naming buoys. A little further don the display is the GPS Name this is separate to the Name because the handheld GPS receivers are more restrictive in their naming conventions.

The position is displayed and editable using the co-ordinate system specified in the options setup. This is one way of moving the waypoint to a precise location, another is to simply tap and drag the waypoint to it's new position.

You can associate a file with the waypoint. This makes the waypoint a Hot Spot. You can browse to the required file and select it. A nice, and sometimes confusing, feature is that whenever a file is created in the "my documents" folder whilst Pocket Navigator is running will create a hotspot with the icon set to the icon of the application. As can be seen in the image to the right a screen shot had been taken a few seconds before this one leaving a picture in the my documents folder.

The icon for the viewing application is an eye. It took us quite a while to figure out what was going on. You can also make voice recordings, or notes which attach themselves to your maps. The alarm setting creates a proximity alarm for the waypoint. A proximity alarm waypoint is entered in meters radius from the waypoint, and is shown as a hatched red circle surrounding the waypoint as in the picture to the left.

When you enter the area of the alarm the PDA default alarm is sounded. The proximity alarm can be configured in one of two ways a Proximity Alarm as described above, or an Anchor Alarm.

The Anchor Alarm sounds when you leave the proximity circle and continues until you are one nautical mile from the waypoint. The final configuration option is the Icon to be displayed on the map.

This can be selected from a small selection of images, or can be the icon associated with the attached file. Setting the default tick box will make this the default icon to be displayed when creating additional waypoints. Tracks Tracks are recorded points on your journey. OziExplorerCE is not automatic route planning software , you cannot request the best way to get from point A to point B, the types of maps OziExplorerCE uses do not allow this.

However OziExplorerCE will allow you to create your own routes on the map and navigate along those. The unregistered OziExplorerCE will work with the unregistered OziExplorer but the limitations of both packages will apply. There is a detailed list of features here. Map Requirements Maps of your particular area of the world which you can scan or purchase in digital format which can be converted to the ozf4 format. Map images in the ECW format can be used without conversion.

See the " Using Maps in CE " page for more information. To convert maps to the ozf4 format, a conversion utility called Img2Ozf is available for download from this web site. The format allows paging of the image from disk and therefore requires little memory for image display. Vector Maps. OziExplorerCE Version 2. If you are upgrading from a previous version please read "History of Changes" link below. Any issues found with program operation please report them to info oziexplorer.

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