Guest squall Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 In recent weeks and months there have been a number of GPS navigation applications released for the smarthone platform, but so far these have been aimed at drivers, not people who enjoy outdoor pursuits. The first application set to challenge this trend is called Outdoor Navigator. Outdoor Navigator for Smartphone will be released in early 2005 (January or February). If you are interested in obtaining a pre-release version for your Smartphone, please send an email to [email protected] and provide contact information along with the Smartphone and GPS models that you'd like to use the product with. For more information about Outdoor Navigator, go to www.outdoornavigator.com or www.maptech.com. Initially it seems this application will only be available for users in the United States. More information, pictures and a detailed guide can be found at activemap.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 I have spoken to Activmap and initially their application will only be for the US market but they hope to expand later. :lol: This is one app that would be very useful for taking my scout troop on hikes etc. Hopefully if released in the Europe it will be a decent price as maps on the PPC format are not cheap :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 I wonder if Memorymap are looking at this? Heres hoping :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serendipity Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 a uk version would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Papa Smurf Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Now what would be good is a GPS system that can be used in the car or when walking off road, with both modes having voice directions. I would find this handy for mountain biking as I don't want to carry maps but always have my phone on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Now what would be good is a GPS system that can be used in the car or when walking off road, with both modes having voice directions. I would find this handy for mountain biking as I don't want to carry maps but always have my phone on me. Fortuna BT Clip-on is a good one with Xtrac V.2 mode this allows you go deep under foliage and bridges n stuff and still pick up a signal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abatis Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Thanks for the heads up on this program. I use CoPilot for street navigation but this is nicely priced for a Topo navigation resource. I downloaded and installed OutDoor Navigation on my PDA2K today. It works fine with my Copilot Bluetooth GPS receiver. Just set the GPS to NMEA and find the correct BT Serial Port. Nice program and it seems to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Papa Smurf Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 But are there any off road packages/maps for the UK market yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Im not aware of any for smartphones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 There are available for PPC but they are not cheap at around £40+ for regional maps. So if you want UK coverage at a decent scale 1:25000 it works out quite expensive. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffrey.siegel@activ Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Hey - just saw the comments about Outdoor Navigator. I'm the developer of the product. I'm always interested in hearing ideas and suggestions. Maptech and I are very aware of the need for international maps. We're having a joint meeting on Tuesday for the sole purpose of planning the next stage of our Smartphone offerings. The product is a couple of months ahead of schedule which puts me in a very nice position right now! Anyway, the issue is that we'd like to have a map set offering that is low priced and complete like we do for the United States. We could easily allow the product to work with the existing Ordinance Survey, et. al. CD's on the market, but I don't really think that is what people want (paying for each CD at 3-10 times the cost of the Outdoor Navigator application). We'd like to get to a place where we can offer a complete mapping set for a single low price. That model has been working great in the US. So please! Keep making suggestions, public or private. I'll do my best to respond. Cheers! ...Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Hey - just saw the comments about Outdoor Navigator. I'm the developer of the product. I'm always interested in hearing ideas and suggestions. Maptech and I are very aware of the need for international maps. We're having a joint meeting on Tuesday for the sole purpose of planning the next stage of our Smartphone offerings. The product is a couple of months ahead of schedule which puts me in a very nice position right now! Anyway, the issue is that we'd like to have a map set offering that is low priced and complete like we do for the United States. We could easily allow the product to work with the existing Ordinance Survey, et. al. CD's on the market, but I don't really think that is what people want (paying for each CD at 3-10 times the cost of the Outdoor Navigator application). We'd like to get to a place where we can offer a complete mapping set for a single low price. That model has been working great in the US. So please! Keep making suggestions, public or private. I'll do my best to respond. Cheers! ...Jeff Great 1st post Jeff. Nice to see you in the forum. I think you said what we all wanty to hear Complete package at a cheap price :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 Logging and route planning would be a must for me. At the moment I would be happy just to be able to use a map for hiking reference on the move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest judgey Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 It would be nice to have an app that offered simple waypointing and GPS compass capabilities to start with. I use GPSDash on my iPAQ and this is a great little application, that allows you to load in and reference your own maps and gives you a nice Dashboard interface with all the info you need. I am surprised something similar isn't available for SmartPhone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffrey.siegel@activ Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 A couple of responses: - Route planning is in the product today. When you activate a route, it will assist you with navigating each waypoint to waypoint. - Logging (we call it tracks) isn't implemented. It's high on the list of things to be added. It is needed. - It is nice to have a compass-like display ala GPSDash - I have that on one of my Pocket PC's. A map can often be a better display. For one pretty low price, we provide all of the maps (US). You're right in that we should have some better GPS status displays. I hate to sound like a broken record but it is on the list too - we've gotten that same feedback for the Palm and Pocket PC version. Since Outdoor Navigator was released, we've been making "horizontal" changes to it - getting it onto different platforms. The development is now shifting to become more "vertical" as we add features and capabilities based on the feedback on the thousand of users of the product. It is still a very new product and trust me, it isn't done being developed at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Papa Smurf Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 So when can we have some UK maps? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 I am sure they are working on it as they just have to sort out the copyright issues etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fruitneck Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 The guys over at memory map are developing a client for the smartphone as we speak. They didnt give me a predicted release date though. If it is as good on the smartphone as it is on the PPC then it will be another killer app for this platform. The only thing that might let it down is the ridiculous price for the OS maps (not memory maps fault--ordnance surveys). Looking forward to it anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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