TrackyPro (online GoogleMaps with GPS) 3.3.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Tracky is an off-road navigation utility. Use it for hiking, (mountain)biking, skiing, driving, sailing, scuba diving, golf, city trips, or geo-caching. You know where you were, where you are, and how to get where you like to be.

If you’ve taken your car navigation system into the woods you probably realized that it becomes more of a paper weight than a navigation device. Without roads most can’t function. That’s why you may need off-road navigation software.

Tracky gives insight in your current situation by means of a large compass, a speed, altitude, slope and even a G-force meter. You can record the track you are walking and edit your favorite Points Of Interest (POIs). You can navigate along a track or to POIs assisted by spoken voice, while getting hints about your performance compared to the time you recorded the track. You can analyse the track you are traveling and/or travelled before. Many internet sites exists on which tracks can be up- and downloaded, so that you can share your favorite tracks with others. You can convert any location to the many supported Grids, Zones, and/or Datums for cartographic purposes.

Tracky supports online GoogleMaps so that you have full and free access to satellite, street, and hybrid maps, everywhere you go! Maps will be dynamically downloaded if your PocketPC has internet access. You can also cache these maps offline at home while still enjoying them when you are out. Finally, Tracky also allows you to import and calibrate maps of your own.

With TrackMe, you can follow your buddies on your PDA and chat with them. You can also follow them on your PC, just check out TrackMe to see who is online right now!

Tracky supports address-to-address navigation. It is not as fancy as in TomTom or Garmin, but it works, while you can still enjoy the many features these systems lack! You have access to various online databases to search for nearby businesses, geo-caches, Wikipedia entries, photos, and weather stations.

Many more features exist: just download the free trial version, and start using them right away!

Tracky runs on any PDA or mobile phone with Microsoft® PocketPC 2003 or higher, e.g. Windows Mobile 5 or 6. It requires an NMEA-0183 compatible GPS receiver: wired, BlueTooth?, or built-in. It supports several de facto standards for tracks, POIs, and maps. You can share these with your friends, down- and upload them to many existing internet sites, and profit from the wide availability of tools for editing and analysis. "Try before you buy" : download Tracky for free!

New features in version 3.3:

• online look-up address-2-address routes
• Trip computer
• Searching online geocaches improved:
  • specific icons for each geocache
  • better readable POI details
• improved Accurator tool:
  • position shown
  • spread and precision visualized
  • position of target visualized
  • distance and relative speed to target
  • angle to target shown in compass
• more intuitive follow modes
• GoogleMaps improved:
  • min/max zoom levels match GoogleMap resolution, so maps better readable
  • terrain type added
• better support of scroll wheel
• performance improvements

New features in version 3.2:

• Big Button Menu: control Tracky with your fingers
• support for hardware keys (including the WM5 softkeys): pan and zoom main screen and navigate through menus and dialogues
• added menu option to jump to current position without enabling any of the follow modes
• added menu option to directly see Map details
• concept of OnlineServices eased in case of internet problems
• better user feedback when track recording completed
• newly created POIs inherit attributes of selected POI

New features in version 3.1:

• Yahoo Local Search integrated in Search tool
• POIs can now be given a phone number, and you can call this phone number
• Yahoo and Google Local Search results properly store found phone numbers
• option to choose in which GPX file to record a track, GPX files with multiple tracks allowed
• color wheel to select color for e.g. tracks
• data folders can be re-read without having to restart Tracky
• user can choose to take heading and/or speed from GPS or to compute it
• visual feedback of speed violation in SpeedAlert tool
• many small improvements

New features in version 3.0:

• Directions tool: address-to-address-navigation! (internet connection required, based on Google Directions)
• Stopwatch tool: comparable to a normal stopwatch, but this one also triggers on a configurable speed and/or distance
• SpeedAlert tool: get signals when driving too fast/slow
• Search tool for POIs, direct access to several very useful databases on internet to search for:
  • businesses (Google Local Search)
  • photos (Panoramio.com)
  • Wikipedia entries (Wikipedia.org)
  • geo-caches (Geocaching.com)
  • weather stations
• many improvements in main screen:
  • full-screen mode
  • on-screen buttons for direct access to the most commonly used tools
  • different move option: ‘follow marker’
  • configurable background color
  • menu entry to directly access POI details
  • choice to have big or small icons
• bigger buttons in dialogues
• a POI can now also be associated with a picture and/or a web address (URL)
• export button in locator tool to copy position to clipboard

New features in version 2.3:

• track navigation enhanced with virtual trainer
• zoom bar extended with + and - buttons

New features in version 2.2:

• support for 繁體中文(Traditional Chinese) and 简体中文 (Simple Chinese)
• improved TrackMe: see the positions of your buddies live in Tracky and chat with them!
• Geocoder tool for address look-up
• objects like tracks and POIs are selectable in main screen for easy editing
• easy computation of distance and angle between 2 points
• autodial GPRS connection on internet usage and ability to disable internet usage
• improved support for GoogleMaps (configurable north/east offset to compensate for misplaced maps, added option for high resolution maps, improved caching mechanism)
• configurable icon for target
• GPX files can be renamed
• added option to register for Online services (TrackMe, Geocoder)
• current heading shown in compass

New features in version 2.1:

• full integration with online GoogleMaps (satellite, street, and hybrid maps)
• hyperzoom shows world-level overview of tracks and POIs
• 'auto follow' temporarily disabled when dragging screen
• user can choose to save GPX files in ASCII or UNICODE format
• tickmarks in menus show if GPS, license, language, TrackMe, and/or GoogleMaps are enabled/configured
• 'Internet' tab in config->settings menu shows up/download statistics and allows to configure download cache

New features in version 2.0:

• GPX support: direct compatibility with e.g. GoogleEarth
• configurable icons and other attributes for POIs and tracks
• track compression: much smaller file sizes, based on time, distance, and/or deviation
• manually create/edit tracks due to unified POI/track concept
• tracks, POIs and maps can individually be shown/hidden
• GPS quality, PDOP, HDOP, and VDOP are shown
• major performance improvements
• configurable user icon, resizable direction arrow
• auto-hide grid if zoomed-out far

New features in version 1.6:

• multi-language: English, Deutsch (German), Nederlands (Dutch), Francais (French), Espanol (Spanish), Italiano (Italian), Portugues (Portuguese), 日本語 (Japanese), Ελληνικά (Greek), Русский (Russian), Dansk (Danish), Svenska (Swedish)
• navigate feature for tracks
• screen rotation: align to current direction or to target position
• higher redraw frequency and smooth zooming/translating
• optimized map calibration by aligning it to any of the available grids
• accurator tool (TrackyPro only): more accurate position information by advanced forward reckoning and averaging techniques (configurable)
• support for dd°mm.mmm' format, as widely used for geo-caching
• support for two configurable data folders
• support for many distance and speed units: km, miles, yards, etc.
• support for 2 point map calibration next to current calibration methods
• locator tool fully integrated, now also provided in TrackyLite
• improved boot performance
• configurable style of grid and tracks
• support for VGA screens (640x480px)
• optimized layout for square screens (next to portrait and landscape)