“Navigation and cartography by mobile phone”
Review:-
Trek Buddy: – into Symbian smartphones with GPS sensor a navigation device. The freeware displays created cards as mobile Atlas and helps with prefabricated routes for navigation.
After the TrekBuddy a simple world map shows and hides the current location using a GPS sensor. Using internally produced cards to use the software as Atlas or navigation device. TrekBuddy processes resulted maps in image formats like PNG and JPG to spatial data. Article on the Developer to create individual cards in high quality royalty-free sources such as Open Street Map.
Depending on the installed maps TrekBuddy uses different zoom levels and routes data navigation. On request, the software sends current location data than SMS.
Conclusion
TrekBuddy Symbian smartphones into powerful atlases with GPS function. Individual cards ideal freeware for special purposes such as expeditions. Unfortunately, the software comes with a simple world map and remains interesting only for experienced users.
TrekBuddy requires:
- Operating system: Symbian OS
What’s new in TrekBuddy 0.9.99
- new: Android bluetooth GPS support (only paired devices)
- fixed some Android repaint issues
- fixed: “No profiles found” issue on some devices
- smoother midlet start (on some devices)
- lowmem I/O tar maps mode should perform better in forward direction (more or less Samsung specific)
- There is a single Android build that should work on all versions.
- This is hopefully the last time Blackberry users loose their TrekBuddy configuration during upgrade (known BB issue): beginning with this version, TB, in addition to using RMS, also dumps its settings to resources/settings.dat file whenever Settings are saved. Then, when TB does not find its configuration in RMS, it will use this file as fallback. And on BB devices, TB also saves datadir location into BB-specific persistent storage which survives midlet upgrade.
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