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hello,
i want to make an app that has a globe in it. when zoomed into the globe turns to a 2d image that shows continents further zooming into a country then to a state and finally a city. during this zooming process only the names of places should be visible no other bodies like buildings or lakes etc are to be shown. the whole purpose of doing this is to reduce the bandwidth usage of the user using gmaps will result in consuming lot of mbs. i want to make it as minimum as possible. can you guys help me with this?
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Any decent cycling/training GPS software?

Something that records distance, average speed, total height climbed/descended, graphical outputs of speed v distance etc?
I've found a few different programs, but nothing that's amazing.
Anyone have any ideas? Cheers.
Lemme know if you find one u like, k?
Have you tried Memory Map. I use for hill walking and provides everything you ask for. Needs to be on Windows Mobile device.
Have you tried RunGPS?
I tried VisualGPS, TurboGPS and some other free ones and they are all kinda lousy for tracking stats while jogging. But RunGPS looks like it will work well. I downloaded it but I haven't taken it on a test run yet.
Yeah, Memory Map is good, but it doesn't do everything that I'd like. For example, I don't think you can get an graph of your speed v time etc, or elevation v time (like the application on the N95). It is very good for navigation though.
I'll have to try RunGPS.
James, have a look at TerraTrack, it's reasonably good. It gives you a colour coded route depending on speed etc. Not quite perfect for what I'm looking for though, but probably the best so far.
Hi,
Memory Map is okay. It will provide a track of where you have been, average speed, total ascent/descent, distance travelled etc. However, it is fairly limited in that it is not really designed for that. It is primarily a navigation tool.
The best thing I have found and use (only recently though) is RunGPS which Andy suggests. It is specifically designed as a training tool with a bit of navigation bolted on. It basically has a few main screens. They are
Recorder:- this is split into 8 areas where you can display speed, distance, altitude, calories, av speed, max speed etc. There are quite a lot of choices here to display so it is very customisable for your needs.
Navigation:- shows a map with a cursor following your route. You can import Google Maps or use open maps (mainly show roads so not great for off road navigation). Like memory map it will allow you to follow pre planned routes. It also has a compass on this screen.
Map:- basically a full screen map.
When riding you can record laps (ideal for timing yourself up your local favourite hill) and you can even set it up to race yourself over your favourite routes. Each run can be imported into Google Maps if you want to share where you have been with friends. There is even a web site where you can upload your routes.
A good feature of it is that you can produce a training report for each run you do (produced on a web page). It gives you a breakdown of the run based on
Speed
Calories
Altitude
Map of your route
The main recording screen has large buttons for starting and stopping your training and a split/lap button. You can set it to give an audible report of your speed, distance etc every 5, 10, 20 minutes (I use this on the road bike as I have my phone in my pocket).
Certainly for anyone riding competively it gives you most of the info you would ever need to analyse you training. The only thing you don't get is heart rate. However, you can sync you heart rate readings with this software.
Basically this software gives you all the info you would get from a cycle computer or one of the Garmin devices on your phone.
Have a look at their web site, it has screen shots and you can trial the software for 14 days.
Regards
matheprat said:
James, have a look at TerraTrack, it's reasonably good. It gives you a colour coded route depending on speed etc. Not quite perfect for what I'm looking for though, but probably the best so far.
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I'll take a look at it, thanks.
spangelsaregreat said:
Hi,
The best thing I have found and use (only recently though) is RunGPS which Andy suggests.
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I am just floored on how well the GPS works with rungps. I ususally am stuck waiting for a minute at least while in clear view of the sky to connect to GPS with google maps, Microsoft Live, visualgps, turbogps, and a few other free ones I cant remember the names of,,,,,but with RunGPS is connects in a seconds even if I'm not outside............
I cant wait to take it out for a jog tomorrow.
Thanks for the detailed post! I've had a play, and it looks perfect for what I want, thanks for the suggestion! Do you know what the difference between "cycling". "mountainbiking" and "race-biking" is?
matheprat said:
Thanks for the detailed post! I've had a play, and it looks perfect for what I want, thanks for the suggestion! Do you know what the difference between "cycling". "mountainbiking" and "race-biking" is?
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I could pretend to be all knowledgable here however to be honest I had not noticed the other options!!
I would hazard a guess they are linked to the calorie side of things. I was actually thinking about that today when I was out on my mountainbike slogging up a muddy track at 3mph. Obviously riding up a similar hill on the road would expend less calories so I am guessing the formula that works out the categories allows for this.
I guess cycling is perhaps for general leisure riding and race biking is for going a bit harder.
Regards
spangelsaregreat said:
I could pretend to be all knowledgable here however to be honest I had not noticed the other options!!
I would hazard a guess they are linked to the calorie side of things. I was actually thinking about that today when I was out on my mountainbike slogging up a muddy track at 3mph. Obviously riding up a similar hill on the road would expend less calories so I am guessing the formula that works out the categories allows for this.
I guess cycling is perhaps for general leisure riding and race biking is for going a bit harder.
Regards
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I thought this too at first, but surely calorie count is basically very similar regardless of the bike used? Sure, the bike's weight and efficiency will have an effect, but not enough to warrant 3 different cycling settings? You would use more calories pushing harder, but that would be reflected in your speed readings from the GPS?
Either way, cheers for the info about the software. Just what I was looking for
Hi,
Yes between cycling normally and racing on the road their should really be no difference.
However, you go considerably slower off road because of the conditions, so unless the program knows this it will think you are going less hard than on the road. Without a heart rate input (like on a Polar or similar) the program can't really know how hard you are pushing based purely on speed and altitude gained or lost.
Regards
I use Vidaone's (www.vidaone.com) MY Sport Training, this is quite an indepth program, with GPS / Polar HRM plugins also with a Windows Synchable desktop part.
I believe that they also do a diet app that also interfaces with My Sport Training.
SC
Or sportypal, almost the same type as Rungps, but with more options, and easy way for setting up goals.

TomTom US Canada

I'm just downloading it right now. Really excited about TomTom app. This was the only app I really missed on my Infuse 4G
Great app. Offline maps finally.
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I got Navigon on iOS and now I am switching to Android I still like it. TomTom is alright.
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I haven't used TomTom.
Hope you don't mind me jumping in. Off-line navigation is a subject of great interest to me as I do have a cross country road trip coming up in January. As a result I've been trying out programs.
I have three programs installed in my phone and I have been testing/comparing all three to try to settle on which one I will stick with for off-line use. I've got a spreadsheet of notes... might post it as a review at some time. The three programs are:
Locus Pro (paid $7.00 )
OsmAnd (free)
NavFree (free)
Locus Pro has a ton of features. Complicated but useable. Requires you to be on-line only for as long as it takes to calculate the route (the other two don't require on-line at all). Road labels are small. Road labels disappear when zoom out using vector maps. You can overcome that by downloading tile maps for specific area down to a high zoom level... but if you're looking to cover a wide area such as you night encounter during a cross country trip the tile files would be ridiculously huge.
OsmAnd has somewhat of an elegant interface with lots of features (not as many as Locus, but they're easier to access). But it chokes when you ask it to calculate a route more than 200 miles or so. And road labels are small also.
NavFree is somewhat bare bones. It has the fewest features of the three and missing some features I'd really like.
And yet it is my favorite because of 2 great features:
1 - most readable display. Really striking and easy to read, in both day and night mode.
2 - When zooming out to use the program as a map (for example to see what's 20 miles down the road), the names of the most important roads remain easily visible no matter what zoom level. And you can tap any road to see it's name label. (Locus and OsmAnd don't show most road names if you zoom out to level 13 or beyond... so you can see city names and highways without any names.. and no tap to see name feature.). As a result I can very easily/quickly scroll around while zooming in/out to get a feel for a route/trip/area with NavFree... that's much too frustrating with the other two programs where the road labels disappear when zoomed out.
NavFree has some major missing features:
1 - no ability to force north=up while navigating !!??!! The only choice is that "up" corresopnds to the direction you're driving.
2 - no compass displayed while navigating in the only available mode (up=forward).
Combine 1 and 2 and you are at the mercy of the program while navigating. Tough to get your bearings.
3 - When not navigating, we can force north up. But in this case there is no feature to use the phones compass to tell you which way the car is aligned. I really need that feature when getting started in a strange city from a large parking lot with several entrances... need to orient myself with respect to the map. No tools to do that in NavFree. It only uses car movement and route to orient the car on the screen.
4 - No display of "scale" (one inch = how many miles). Kind of a basic feature for a map.
I have actually built myself a program in Tasker (call it "floating pointer) that displays a pointer floating over the screen to somewhat compensate for deficiencies 1 thru 3 above of NavFree.
The pointer has two user-selectable modes
A - it can point in the direction that my car is pointing on a north-up map (to help me find my way out of parking lots for example). A useful feature same as provided in the other two programs.
B - When navigating in up=north mode, it can figure out which direction is north on that map and point that way (like a compass rose on a rotated map). This compensates slightly for 1 and 2... at least I can mentally figure out what direction I'm traveling in when the phone is navigating in the up=forward mode. If the N arrow points to 9:00 direction, that mean I'm traveling East. If N points to 3:00, I'm traveling West. If N points to 6:00, I'm headed south. Or else just look at the screen and mentally rotate the whole thing so that north arrow is pointing up. Then again it might just be easier to use compass mode (A) as a direct indicator of which direction I'm headed. Then I don't have to mentally rotate the map or reverse East and West... I just have to remember that the direction the compass is pointing acts like a compass indicator of heading and not a compass rose on a rotated map. Either way works. Neither is as good as being able to force north=up.
My floating pointer program is similar to the "floating battery monitor" app that I posted about in the sense that it floats on top of the screen of another program. Unfortunately this one would be tough to turn into an APK for sharing because it uses Python and SL4A which don't get captured in the APK generated by Tasker. So user would need to have Tasker, Python and SL4A installed to run this. (and I'm not sure it's worth all the trouble... still a little clunky... a program that only it's mother would love).
have you looked at sygic, its a good offline gps program. the one thing i dont agree with is the initial app download from the store is free. then you have to buy a license from thier website.

[APP][2.3+] BACK.HOME - The easiest way to find back home

BACK.HOME can be found on Google Play!
BACK.HOME is an easy, GPS based application with whose help one can relocate a stored GPS location through displaying direction- and distance-information. The app does not use a internet or Wifi connection, it uses exclusively the Smartphone's internal Global-Positioning-System (GPS). To ease the use of this application neither road-maps nor satellite images are used for guidance. Everywhere on earth where a GPS signal is available, the stored location can be relocated with an estimated accuracy of 15m.
This application is manifold! You can relocate your place of departure for almost any kind activities like hiking, boating, fishing, geo-caching, camping, sailing, mountain-biking, no matter where your outdoor activity takes place. Another example of application could be finding back to a train station in a foreign city or finding the anchorage ground of you boat in foreign harbor. Also finding your parked car on an large outdoor parkingspace. Wherever you need to find the way back to an previously visited location, BACK.HOME helps you the easy way.

Shamworld. Your reality.

Hello !
To change the world around you, to make it a better place—everybody dreams about that. This is why a new Shamworld app is now available on Google Play to let you create your version of the augmented reality at particular locations in just few taps! Now not pokemons decide where to appear but you make your ideas real in an augmented world.
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How to work with this app
If you feel that this lovely courtyard nearby really lacks the magic of tenants and some sculptures that you chanced to be passing will really look good with a little twist, then now you can do it right on the spot via your smartphone with the installed Shamworld app. A little left to do—to open the app and wait until your location has been found on the map using Google Maps data. A cute green ant will mark your location. All you need to do is to choose an object you would like to see here and to superimpose it into the camera image. When saving your version of the reality for a particular place, you may also share it with all or some of your friends. They will see your work in the Recommended section and will be able to check it out via the app. Various objects can be selected. There are plenty of ready images and even animated GIFs available in this app! You may choose your image in Gallery or add your own photos, emojis and texts.
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The opportunities for real creators are unlimited! Also, to understand how the app works, you can watch this video
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Shamworld. Changing the reality
To make sure that the object has been tagged to a specific place, you need to choose an object that does not change its place, shape or color over time. That being said, it is unlikely that you can tag something to a backpack forgotten on a bench or to a cute cat sitting nearby. But it can be done easily with the bench itself. However, the tag might be lost if the bench gets changed or repainted one day but this happens not so often.
Shamworld and the world around you
When walking around the Shamworld map you must have already spotted yellow circles with numbers in it here and there. It indicates the number of objects placed by other app users. You may enjoy their arts and get some inspiration for new objects. There are several practical ways to use the Shamworld app. For example, when you go out of some cafe, you may leave your feedback right on its wall—without getting charged with vandalism. The cafe owner himself may place a creative ad in the app to make sure that no one misses it... 4-inch screen or above, RAM—at least 512 kB, camera—3MP or above, and Android 4.2 or above are required for app users. The better phone you have, the better it will all work for you. You may install the app by clicking Google Play :
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English version is available !
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Where i can upload my app apart from play store

I want to upload below app to app store other then goole play please suggest
Live Location and Address Finder
https:// play.google.com /store /apps/details?id=com.livelocation.addressfinder
Live Location helps user find the address of your neighbourhood; user can also locate the places by using longitude and latitude. User can search for location; save them as a favourite. User can add images of their favourite location. User can share their current location with their friends and family. User can check the history of places the user has visited. The app lets user know the weather of the place user want to visit along with the air quality of the place user is visiting. User can use the inbuilt speedometer to track the speed of their journey and also set the alarm for safe speed. If a user is going above the safe limit user will get the alarm. User can set distance alarm so that when a user is near their destination they will be made aware of it.
Live address:
==>Provide live address where you are standing and you can post to any social media.
==>You can find any place.
==>You can mark places as favourite, inorder to reduce time to search it everytime.
==>App will save you last 10 search so you don't have to search every time.
Photo:
==>Take photo and video with time stamp , place, temperature and date.
==>you can also add description to you photo.
Compass:
==>Use compass with place, temperature, wind speed.
==>You can also take photo with compass.
Speedometer:
==>No need to worry to take photo when you drive vehicle just add limit and it will take photo and video automatically.
==>Both analog and digital speedo meter available.
Distance alarm:
==>No need to worry while travelling just set destination and when you will reach near to your destination app will automatically notify you.
Weather:
==>App will give you current temperature, Wind speed,humidity
==>App will also give you sunrise and sunset timing.
==>App will also give you prediction of weather of upcoming days.
==>You can search any city in world and app will give weather for that area.
AQI:
==>Air quality index of your current location also provide O2, PM, SO2,NO2,CO.
==>You can search any place and app will give AQI of that place.
==>You can also compare AQI of 3 cities

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