Looking for: An app. that will turn my Pocket PC into a GPS

ryd1976 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 22, 2004 Posts: 6

Hi,

I'm new in this Forum so please excuse me if I posted the following in a wrong room.

I have an iPAQ h2210 which came with a Bluetooth GPS (Leadtek) and navigation app. covering Skandinavia (Route66). That all works great, but...

Now that I have a GPS I would like to take advantage of ALL what such wonderfull piece of equipment can offer.
Basically I'm looking for an app. that can show the same information as a "normal" GPS (Garmin for example):
- Position in various systems (MGRS-New, Latitude/Longitude etc.)
- Altimeter (meters/feet)
- Compas (which direction I'm moving)
- Make and save own waypoints
- Maybe even showing a simple drawing of the world (coastline only). But with no fancy road maps and navigation system since I allready have that.

I know that Garmin offers an app. for Pocket PC's wich covers the above. But then you of course have to buy the Garmin CF card GPS ($268) as well. Since I allready have the GPS, this purchase would be....well, insane!
I have downloaded and tried the shareware "GPSDash". This program pretty much covers my needs. But I still think $19 for full funktionality is too much since I don't need the map funktion that GPSDash provides (all ready got Route66 with navigator).

Do you know where to get a "simple" and cheap GPS software for my Pocket PC?
Thanks!

Thomas
Denmark

Darren · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

You have $600+ worth of hardware and think $19 is too much to spend on software to make use of all this?

Vito Technology's Vito Navigator is a popular app that has full handheld GPS functionality but then that's $16. To be honest, apart from a utility that gives you your Lat/Lon there are no applications that provide the sort of functionality you're after for free.
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ryd1976 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 22, 2004 Posts: 6

Relax Darren!

First of all - I bought my equipment (iPAQ, GPS and Route66) on sale for little over $500. You can of course still compare that amount to $19 if that gets your blood pumping, but just to set things straight.
Second - Comparred (if I really have to!) to all other kinds of brilliant FREE applications you can find if you give it a try, I really don't think what I'm asking for is anything near too much.
Third - $1 or $50 doesn't really matter. I'm the type of person who don't just buy stuff right away without checking if it comes cheaper or better some where else.

Maybe you're right that I was aiming too high here, but you don't win if you don't gamble...

Now, are there others who have any (constructive) suggestions?

Darren · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:42 pm Post subject:

Sorry, that wasn't meant to come across so harshly! Vito Navigator is a constructive answer to your query as is possibly OziExplorer, GPS is still a niche market, the functionality you search for is an even smaller subset so there is little incentive to authors to produce such apps so the choice is still limited.
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ryd1976 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 22, 2004 Posts: 6

I know that Vito Navigator was a constructive suggestion (forgot to give you credit for that), and I will have a closer look at OziExplorer.

You are probably right about the niche market, and therefor the lack of authors. I just thought - the brilliance of the GPS concept lies in sattelites 20.000 kilometres above and in the reciever devices. The applications (I'm looking for) just transforms the information to position in various formats, altitude, bearing, speed and time.

Thank you for the two suggestions and for the reminder on "demand and supply".

Thomas
Denmark

craigaucott · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 28

ryd1976 - Check your PM. 8O

RumJungle · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 1

Try:
VisualGPSce: http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPSce/default.htm (it's free)

BeeLineGPS: http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/default.htm Makes your PPC look like a hand held GPS -- supports waypoints and tracks. Blurb: http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/npa.htm

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