I hike and mountain bike. Many times when I am out in the wilderness there is just no data, so map information is unavailable. Also trail information is not a part of google maps data.
I was thinking a paid app for this would be great. You could charge for each map! You would need a web site where people could submit map images
Example: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/blueHills.gif
Then some software to sync gps information with the image.
Then sell each map as a single application.
Image data could be stored on sdcard.
If someone wants to do this... I have no $$$ just the idea. I would be willing to do the labor of syncing the map image to gps data when people submit new locations. I am not a programmer, so the coding would be all you
You could also just steel this idea
If you do can you at least give me free versions of what ever location i request
Maverick, RMaps and a few others already do this and allow you to make custom maps, blah blah blah... Oh yeah, they're free too.
I am aware of "custom map" applications, I don't think either has the capability to place an image over the top of the custom map like the trail map above.
I'll play around with TrekBuddy and RMaps and see if it is doable
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
An "image" would be an KML or GPX file that would in face overlay on top of the map. Both Maverick and RMaps both do this.
How do you convert a .jpg or .gif to a KML or GPX file?
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hi,
Can anyone recommend a sw that can log your current GPS position every xx seconds (configurable) to a file that can then be used with google earth or something similar on a PC to show your track? always having a gps with you opens up many possibilities
Have a look at Fransons GPS Gate, you get a free trial period to check it out and make sure it does what you want, to display the files it produces use GPSBabel to convert the data to the correct format to use with Google Earth - its not too difficult to get used to - Mike
TrackMe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340667
Ziggy
Reperion. Offers the most comprehensive set of options for free. You can use every major online map you can imagine to track you or give to your friends and family, or you can even have your family track you live in google earth. Even supports, sound, video, and picture files and will place them on the map or in google earth at the place where you took them.
http://www.reperion.com/
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Hi all,
We're developing a small completely free application named aMetro.
It shows the maps of transit systems all over the world in OFFLINE – subways, buses, trains, and other. You can find the right route between stations and estimate travel time (of course, if map contains appropriate data about travel time between stations).
As data source we're using a collection of maps from pMetro project (it's a desktop application for Win32 systems on Russian language, you can download it from www.pmetro.su). It is a very detailed maps collection of Russian cities, but also contains not-perfect (but still useful) maps of the biggest cities all over the world.
Current features are:
Offline transit system maps of about 180 cities (with different details, of course)
View maps for other kinds of transportation.
Zoom maps.
Find the shortest route between stations.
Support multilanguage interface.
Update maps automatically.
Find the nearest station (currently for Moscow and St. Petersburg only).
Zoom with multitouch.
Nearest future plans:
Get information about stations.
Select station (and create routes) by touching map.
Map editor
Our project site: www.ametro.org
We need help with translation our application from russian+english to other languages. Also, we need help with data collection and map fixing.
Your help will be highly appreciated!
Contact us via this site or our email [email protected]
Others similar app but not android app
Any kind of similarity with imetro? imetro.nanika.net
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Any kind of similarity with imetro? imetro.nanika.net
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Yes, they are both contains metro/subway routing.
But aMetro works completely offline, and contains map views and some other userful information.
This will be perfect for when I go to Japan in October, will keep an eye on this, thanks!
new version released
1.0.8: added French localization, fixed some minor bugs
Brussels Metro. Redesigned and Updated map + GPS
We completely redesigned map of the Brussels Metro. Now it is up to date (Wikipedia), added 2 lines of the tram and GPS-coordinates of the metro stations. Now "Where am I?" function is available in Brussels.
If you configured check for updates and auto-update of the maps, wait for it, or update the online catalog from the menu manually and apply the updated maps.
P.S. If you want to enable "Where am I?" function in your city please contact us. We'll say how to collect and format a file with GPS coordinates to use with this programm.
I like the offline possibility. Very nice project!
Great project!! Very useful indeed.
I loved the app. Until now it works well on my HTC Desire. I liked the way its organized and the features on it. Everything worked out of the box in a pretty simple way.
Maybe you could add an option to show station name in local language so local purple could understand when we show them where I want to go
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Maybe you could add an option to show station name in local language so local purple could understand when we show them where I want to go
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We could add "default language" option in settings, but we don't have enough resources to add native localizations to entire set of maps.
We going to create map editor in future, so people could add native localization by yourself
Vienna U-Bahn
Updated map of Vienna U-Bahn - added 6 new stations.
Hi, I've downloaded the app and it looks very nicely. However, is it possible for users to contribute to the development of maps. For instance the Rotterdam metro map can be expanded with the new names for the different lines (A,B,C,etc), some new metro stations were constructed, but maybe also to include tramlines? The same goes to The Hague and some other cities I know about.
I've downloaded pMetro and pMetroEditor, but the UI-language is - I guess - Russian. Is there a better working English version of the tools, or you want to keep the development of maps limited to the original developers?
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I've downloaded pMetro and pMetroEditor, but the UI-language is - I guess - Russian. Is there a better working English version of the tools, or you want to keep the development of maps limited to the original developers?
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You could send us detailed change list or link to information about it. Or you could send it directly to author of pMetro.
Or, if changes are simple enough - you could make they in simple text editor.
These maps have very simple text format. We have an instruction on russian and its english draft, so we can publish it if anyone could help us to complete it.
We're going to create map editor in near future, after we add multitouch and selection stations on map in aMetro application.
If anybody wants to create editor - we'll give any information required about the map format
P.S. We sent an email to Boris, author of pMetro, about english localization of map editor.
Version 1.1.0 released.
Changelog:
Multitouch zooming;
Zooming using volume controls;
Move application to SD supported;
Trackball speed setting;
Added resources for WVGA/QVGA screens;
Find and Auto-Complete take into consideration with diacritics and ligatures;
Trackball scroll speed settings
does it have singapore maps?
Yes, there's a map of Singapore.
It may be outdated because we don't have resources to support maps, all of them created by different people outside of our team.
If you find any errors - please send us a description, and we forward they to the developer of map
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Yes, there's a map of Singapore.
It may be outdated because we don't have resources to support maps, all of them created by different people outside of our team.
If you find any errors - please send us a description, and we forward they to the developer of map
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great. downloading it and will try... weird but it only sized 400kb and everything is offline?
400kb - this is application, without a maps.
You could download maps from app, or you could download they from pmetro.su site (but it's on russian ^__^)
in future we plan to create a map editor, so anyone could update or create new maps
p.s. these maps - isn't maps like google maps. they contains only transport lines and stations
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Would like to see a map editor to edit / update some maps. Tried the original version, but unable to do anything with it.
Used to work on maps for a WM-project called CityAdvisor (http://www.cityadvisor.net/) but unfortunately it seems this project is dead (at least still no android version).
So if i can waste some of my time on aMetro.. great
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Would like to see a map editor to edit / update some maps. Tried the original version, but unable to do anything with it.
Used to work on maps for a WM-project called CityAdvisor (http://www.cityadvisor.net/) but unfortunately it seems this project is dead (at least still no android version).
So if i can waste some of my time on aMetro.. great
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If you would take part in creating map editor - please write to our email [email protected], any help will be very appreciated
What's the best app for finding and navigating hiking trails?
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Search the market for everytrail. A lot of trails posted but of course could always depend on your area. Its pretty nice because it can just pull your location and show the nearest hikes to you.
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You might also look into mapping programs that will let you load arbitrary maps into the phone, such as scanned trail maps or topo maps. None of the options are particularly quick to set up, as you'll have to get maps into them.
If OSM has good enough maps, you could use something that'll cache offline maps of it. Often there are decent trail maps there, although I honestly don't see how people have the time to create them given the tools OSM gives.... Anywho.
Backcountry Navigator, Maverick and Orux are a few I found googling.
BackCountry Navigator is damn nice, I've been playing with it all day.. You can pre-cache maps from a bunch of different sources and it has a specific offline mode to use the maps later, all very easy to do. I have a question out to them about calibrating and importing a custom map, something that I'm not seeing in the program but maybe I'm overlooking it.. Like there's an area where I mountain bike and the topo maps are REALLY hard to read the trails as they seem to blend right in with the contour lines, but I have several great high level trail maps that I'd love to be able to use.
OruxMaps is the most useful up to date. The essential feature is offline navigation, i.e. maps can be seen when there is no cell tower in sight. It is essential in the mountains (too high) in the forest (too far) and in high sea. Additionally one can switch the cell receiver completely off that gives more juice to GPS and actual navigation without recharge.
The tracks can be uploaded to pop track sites including google maps. The only deficiencies I know of: UI requires some learning, stats charts can't be exported (particularly important for high profiles)
On my Windows CE PND, I use oziexplorer.
Using Mobile atlas creator I can use Google or OSM maps, and at the same time it has features like "as the crow flies navigation" to a waypoint, or load upto 5gpx tracks and show on screen, and navigate by gpx track.
It also writes tracks, with a new track for every day(useful over multi day trips).
I was looking at similar android apps.
I came across the following
1. Locus
This is the most popular, but gpx writing etc., has just been added, and is basic
2. Trekbuddy - Very old app, I am not sure if any current dev is going on
3. Big Planet tracks - Looks very promising, and feature set advertises "waypoint navigation etc,m'
4. Oruxmaps - Again very popular, can load gpx track
All the above maps do not split tracks by day.
I also found some quirks. For example in oruxmaps, there is no way of telling whether its writing a track or not. the button does not change shape on pressing play pause etc.,
All the above are great apps, but from an offroad navigation standpoint, I am not aware which is the best.
Of course there are paid apps like Maverick etc., but currently I am looking only at free apps.
Oziexplorer for android is under alpha stage, and many features are missing, but since I have already purchased a license long time back, I presume, I should be able to use it once it comes(nobody knows when), if the licensing terms are same.
What do you guys suggest? Any offroad navigators here?
any other apps which I may have missed?
thank u very much
Have you tried Brut Maps?
Brut maps are good for offline mapping. For this purpose orux/locus etc., all are excellent solutions. I am looking for a good off road gpx and navigation system. similar to oziexplorer. All the apps I mentioned are somewhat capable of what I need, but not every feature is available.
I think the Big Planet tracks is the most promising, since source is open, and with more developers joining in, things can get better!
I'm on the same hunt, a good off road gps navigator. I go off road a lot (have jeep, will travel) and the trails i go on do not exist on conventional maps. they are on topo maps as dotted lines or "jeep trails". I used to use GPS Tuner when i was on windows mobile. Loved that program. best thing out there in terms of off road navigation. hopefully they'll port it to android soon.
I'm currently trying Maverick, OruxMap, and Gaia GPS to see how they compare.
Maverick seems to be the best so far. Easy to learn and use. And has a lot of map options. Plus with the newest version they finally allow custom mapping, which means you can use a program like MapMaker to create a downloaded map with your choice of a source. I also like its interface and how it responds. Also love the one click ablity to drop a waypoint.
OruxMap seems like a good program, but it gets on my nerves a bit when you can not search around on the map, by dragging it, without it doing that "distance to target" crap. My other complaint about it is that it seems you can't just load a bunch of waypoints in without a track. wtf? hopefully i'm just missing something, but so far i can not load my already existing kml file (and yes, tried as gpx as well) full of waypoint markers without a track in progress or from the past. I do not like that. When I go off roading, i would like to load the markers, and have it track where i go. mainly because my "markers" are more like virtual notes to me on forks in the trail and what each one does. plus some of my markers are POI along the trail, like a nice rock climb or deep mud bogg, and I'd like to be able to just click that and have it point me in the direction of it without having to already be on my way.
Gaia GPS is nice and simple. nothing really fancy about it, except the price you pay for such a simple app. It is great if you want access to the old topo maps that it seems no other gps program can get without importing them via MapMaker. Its very easy to use, simple to follow and does its main job perfectly. show where you are ontop of topo maps. this is good for someone like me that wants to see where the old jeep trails are because like i said earlier, seems no mapping company marks these anymore.
And I've tried testing these all as best as i can. Right now I'm grounded to roads only due to the fact my off road ability is shot due to a bad transfer case. but hopefully i'll be able to do a true middle of no where, no cell service, off road test off these apps and any others i can remember to install before leaving the network.
But right now, if i had to pay for one, it'd be Maverick.
I am finding androzic quite nice too. Currently trying orux and androzic, will finalize about one of them
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I am finding androzic quite nice too. Currently trying orux and androzic, will finalize about one of them
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I on a similar hunt - how did u get on?
Androzic is the way to go!
Oruxmap is almost there, but Androzic is totally Oziexplorer like. And guess what, Oziexplorer truly rocks.
I think orux maps would be close if it auto saved waypoints you created manually, and did not have so much confusing screen clutter.
I love androzic for the "look ahead feature", where I can look ahead a set percentage towards the direction I am travelling.
If you do try androzic, do not forget to download img2ozf from the project page(version 2) as newer version of img2ozf from oziexplorer website will create ozfx3 format maps from mobile atlas downloaded maps, which is not supported by androzic.
Awesome!
Thank you!!
I too have GPS units that I get in for myself & friends and we all go 4x4ing deep in the aussie bush.
Since the tablets have come along way I have been thinking about trying one with off-roading to compare to our current GPS units. However, if I can get a good tablet with GPS, and GPS software that I can port my 6gig worth of oziexplorer maps... I am set!!
I am going to look in to Androzic asap - currently I have masses of CD's with rooftops maps & that is the main thing I want on the droid tablets!
Thanks again for this thread!!
Guys, no question...
I mean it seriously. Menion (the dev of Locus) spends several hours a day in making Locus the best offline map app ever. If you have some suggestions or missing features, why don't you put it on his wishlist?
I looked at locus, but as things currently stand, oruxmaps has kind of come out on top for me.
It can write tracks, read tracks, navigate as a crow flies to a waypoint, or navigate a track.
Now I need to ask the devs to work on the trip computers.
For example, multiple odometers, with individual reset etc.,
This morning on the ABC morning show they were taking about how Android and specifically iOS are tracking location information. Google gives you the option to opt out of it but not iOS.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/go...location-information/story?id=13436330&page=1
Anyway they found some software online that pulls the location information from your phone and them overlays it to a map. I would really like to find out what the program is as it would be interesting to see everywhere I've been. I drive a truck so that would be really cool.
I did find this but I'm not sure how I would use it.
https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump
Thanks for any help anyone can give.
Search for "Location Cache" in the market.
Google latitude can plot your locations on a map. You can specify a date-range and it will give you where you supposedly have been according to latitude.