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How I Can to make my city Map for GPS ?

Hello
How I Can to make my city Map for GPS ?

Short answer: you can't.

why my friend?

You say that you want to map your city, well it is possible but it can take quite some time, you will need a GPS device and some software to log where you have been, this information is then combined with road names (manually entered) before producing an elctronic map - it is possible, for more ideas have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - Mike

Mike thanks a alot but please guidance me more pleeeeeeeease

There is a way you can do it though, depends of your city available documentation...
If you can find a very detailed map of your city, with latitud and longitud lines on it, you're living in the right place, don't move away!
;-)
With that map, u can use GPS tuner. All you have to do, is calibrating it on your PC (easier than doing it directly on the PPC).
The calibration is about giving the exact position of 3 points on the map...
It works pretty well, and is not that complicated, it's just about, whether or not, there is a detailed map of the city where you live.
Of course you could do the same thing, as said in the other post, by:
- go on the ground and write down the exact location of three spots in your city.
Like the city hall, a stadium or whatever.
- then you just point out those place on your map, tell the calibration software what is their geographical location et voila, the sofware will do the rest!

GPS Tracking Software Recommendations?

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
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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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Maps app for hiking trails?

What's the best app for finding and navigating hiking trails?
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

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.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

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)

[Q] Downloading Large Google Maps Areas on Android

Google Maps will not allow me to download a large enough area to be useful. It's something like 10 miles across. In places like southern Oregon, your nearest neighbor may be more than 10 miles away, and cell towers are often nonexistent.
How can I download a larger map area under Android?
I'm currently frustrated because under iOS, xGPS allowed me to easily download any size area I wanted from Google Maps. I could even use my desktop to download and transfer the map to my phone via WiFi.
Is there any option to do this under Android? What about another mapping platform?
Note, I don't need offline routing or anything. Just a clear, high resolution map, preferably with terrain features, and a GPS dot for where I am.

blueandwhiteg3 said:
Google Maps will not allow me to download a large enough area to be useful. It's something like 10 miles across. In places like southern Oregon, your nearest neighbor may be more than 10 miles away, and cell towers are often nonexistent.
How can I download a larger map area under Android?
I'm currently frustrated because under iOS, xGPS allowed me to easily download any size area I wanted from Google Maps. I could even use my desktop to download and transfer the map to my phone via WiFi.
Is there any option to do this under Android? What about another mapping platform?
Note, I don't need offline routing or anything. Just a clear, high resolution map, preferably with terrain features, and a GPS dot for where I am.
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I've downloaded maps with me. It looks good for some things. Will be testing it out more on my weekend trip through southern Oregon.
Any thoughts on topo maps to go? That was another feature I really liked about xGPS but can't seem to replicate.

Google maps is pretty useless except for getting the most direct route
I Personaly Like Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic or Scout GPS Navigation & Traffic

Does the perfect GPS app really exist?

Hey XDA'ers - I recently drove an awful trip from Connecticut the South Carolina last weekend, and I have to go back tomorrow. What I used on the way down was Google Maps/Navigation on my phone, and Waze on my tablet. My experience:
Google maps didn't route me around a ton of various traffic jams.
Twice it asked if I wanted to select a better route, which I chose, and both times it landed me in very heavy traffic that HAD to be worse than orginal route. It asked me a 3rd time, I declined, and still landed in traffic.
Google maps appears to have no route avoidance - i.e. avoid next 5 miles, or avoid this highway.
I primarily used Waze for traffic and cop notification, Waze seemed to work well for that purpose .I didn't turn on a route in Waze until almost at my destination. I heard it's navigation can take you too much off main roads though.
Google maps did seem to reflect traffic jams in red on the map, but did nothing to get me around them.
I say all this with the understanding that sometimes there are no good alternative routes around traffic, accidents, etc.
I'd be willing to pay good money for a GPS app that works well, and has good route avoidance features. I should note that I've paid for CoPilot which is supposed to do avoidance, and I've had and used for some time, but they updated their interface and I can't figure out how to do route avoidance anymore. Any guidance on CoPilot route avoidance, or another solid GPS app, would be SO very much appreciated.
Thanks a ton in advance for any feedback!!!!