have any of you extremely clever people found a way to locate someone elses phone?? ( eg..... the misses)
Hey there,
Guess what my friend Google found : http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=phone+locator+uk&meta=&aq=1&oq=phone+loca
There are other apps that can be found on windows marketplace such as glympse, will at the press of a button record your gps co-ords (if your device has gps) and you can text this to another mobile. If that mobile has a data plan etc, they can see your position on a map.
Have fun and use wisely!
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I know TomTom is good at on road navigation. Is there any Decent GPS software that uses OS maps, maybe 1:50000 or 1:25000 off road for hill walking etc.
I've tried most of them, and I reckon the best for O.S. maps is
http://www.memory-map.co.uk
They have a CD with all of them on it.
If you don't mid georeferencing them yourself, you might also try http://www.gpsdash.com or www.oziexplorer.com.
GPSDash is the only one that lets you georeference on your PocketPC. The others make you reference the maps on the PC and export them.
Ozi Explorer is faster, and re-projects maps from other formats into WGS84 (so you can use lat/long on OS maps instad of easings/northings). if you are using a bluetooth GPS, there is an issue with using Ozi on the XDA2 (see http://216.218.220.254/ozice/faq_ppc2003.html) which you can solve using Bluetooth Tools (see the article).
A free (but basic) alternative is www.locbrowser.com
One other thing to bear in mind is that TomTom 2.7 upwards will have messed up your bluetooth stack (unless you're running WM2003SE), so you need to soft-reset your Pocket PC after using TomTom before any other GPS program will work. It happens because Tomtom doesn't release the com port even after it has shut down.
Hope that's useful!
Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look at them. What Would be perfect is a moving 1:25000 map with a cursor where I am. With waypoints and route planning in advance, like real GPS units do.
I have not had any issues with TomTom3 however i dont have any other GPS software to test it with. Yet.
Thanks. M8.
I use Memory-Map and it has all that you mention. 1:25000 is limited at present to National Parks etc but more areas are coming. We've full reviews on our site. You also get both PC and PPC clients so can plan on the PC, upload to the PPC and then copy the actual route you took back to the PC afterwards.
MM2004 has many additional features such as 3D bump mapping on the PC to give a virtual 3D respresentation of an area. Both PC and PPC Clients can be used with a GPS.
yes i like the look of this, will download over the weekend and trial it out in the parks 20 mile away.
Possibly a little late but the trial has no GPS functionality. Just in case you were planning to test this!
Doh, thanks for letting me know, i hadnt downloaded it yet.
Whats the point of a trial that doesnt trial the full software. Its just forces people to look elwhere.
To be fair few offer any trial at all so Memory-Map are to be applauded for offering something.
And as you can only 'trial' it with the small sample map they offer which is unlikley to be of your area then its only purpose is to show you the interface etc.
It is however the best in its field for good reason and I can highly reccomend it.
OK, will take a look at their software, and the maps, for the price it does look good value.
Hi,
Ok, I'm looking for an windows mobile application that can help me with making a city walk that must be viewable by regular computers and most recent mobiles.
So e.g. a camera application that add gps coordinates to the photo , a gps application with which I make/walk routes ...
Anybody has any idea's ?
Rgds,
TreMain
update
After some google research I've found Sunnysoft MapView and PhotoTrackrTM for Digital Camera and robogeo .
If you are interested in updates how it works, let me know then I'll tell
you how the above works together for the city walk I'm busy with.
tremain said:
Hi,
Ok, I'm looking for an windows mobile application that can help me with making a city walk that must be viewable by regular computers and most recent mobiles.
So e.g. a camera application that add gps coordinates to the photo , a gps application with which I make/walk routes ...
Anybody has any idea's ?
Rgds,
TreMain
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GPS nav with photos / guider
Hi Tremain
www.c1mobile.com.au supports GPS Guidance with camera, photos, even video and voice files based on GPS geofencing - The "Museum" guidance module was designed to help tour groups around a city with the full tour-guide experience - It's a full voice-guided nav, despatch and vehicle tracking tool used primarily by tech-service fleets (Eg Telstra) .. Only catch is that it's designed for Microsoft Windows UMPCs and tablets (ie Windows XP) not Windows Mobile currently.
The big issue with Windows Mobile has always been the limited multi-tasking capabilities of WM5/6.. Trying to play a movie and navigate, plus send tracking info back to the C1 Mobile server.. And handle updates to the handheld has simply meant that small UMPC's like the Everun
http://store.pressdigital.com.au/mobile-umpc-c-979.html
.. have become the most popular tools for in-field GPS work with multimedia guidance.
Food for thought!
Cheers
Andy
www.pressdigital.com.au
Press Digital Support Team Lead
(Australia's Windows Mobility Solutions Specialists)
Division of www.c1au.com
I got a T-Mobile SDA and no data plan or edge or any of that. I use Devicescape and wifi and its ok. I am looking to find some free application with map of a city a live in or state I live in.
Is the any free application for it or do I have to buy it and if I must buy it then what am I looking for? (name of application I mean)
Thank you
Microsoft pocket street and trips for smartphone.
take a look at the microsoft website of street and trips, you should find all the info.
How about Microsoft Live Search. It works with my bluetooth GPS and had a ton of other information. I still use TomTom 5.2 for navigation on my phone, but Live Search is a pretty nice product.
Try gpsvp
I use gpsvp. It can download Google maps (both road map and sat imagery) over WiFi and save in the storage card. So I can use it offline. No auto navigation. But shows where I am with great acuracy. Saves the track as I drive, lets me mark POIs, and much more.(I use BT gps reciever). Free download.
-Jole
Hello...
I once heared about a tool which adds the current GPS position as signature to an E-Mail. Does anybody know such software?
Thanks a lot!
Whilst this app won't automatically put the GPS info in the text/ e-mail it can be used to copy the present position to the clip board so it is a simple tap/ hold and Paste to put the data in to the area you want http://www.geoterrestrial.com/ Better still it is free and also allows geo tagging of pictures - Mike
I have some questions about coding specifically, this seems like something to put in the development forum, but its rules seem to specify that it is not.
I am making some GPS applications currently for my phone and would like to have some tips on being "friendly" with other GPS programs.
I have created a program that does GPS tracking and records coordinates and speed while driving. When I run this at the same time as Google Maps, it loses the ability to query the GPS device intermittently. What I would like is to be able to see if the GPS device itself is available. Currently I am using the GPS library provided by the Microsoft Sample with some edits (it was doing some unfortunate thread locking that it had no right to know about for a class library).
My hope is that my GPS app can recognize that another program is using it, OR it can recognize that the GPS device has been disabled by another program and turn it back on. Currently the sample library is either Open or Closed but does not actually seem to query the device to get these device states back.
Does anyone have some good example code for this? I intend to keep coding it, but right now it seems I will have to ignore other software on the phone that might be using it until I can get some help on this.