Any Smart Phone App recommendations?

What I am looking for is

1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.

2. continuously updated
ETE or ETA
BRG to way point
Distance to way point

The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.

-Sam

Sam Wormley wrote:
> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>
> What I am looking for is
>
> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.

Hmm... sounds like you're asking for a default Android installation?
>
> 2. continuously updated
> ETE or ETA
> BRG to way point
> Distance to way point

Except for bearing those should be good.
>
> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.

That's your error right there! :-)

Terje
--
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

On 2/6/12 12:10 PM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>>
>> What I am looking for is
>>
>> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
>> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.
>
> Hmm... sounds like you're asking for a default Android installation?
>>
>> 2. continuously updated
>> ETE or ETA
>> BRG to way point
>> Distance to way point
>
> Except for bearing those should be good.
>>
>> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>
> That's your error right there! :-)
>
> Terje

iDevices?

On 2012-02-06 10:30 , Sam Wormley wrote:
> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>
> What I am looking for is
>
> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.
>
> 2. continuously updated
> ETE or ETA
> BRG to way point
> Distance to way point
>
> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.

How will you be using it? For air nav? Car? Walking?

Paid for iPhone Apps that I have.

GPS Motion X - $1.99 (usually $2.99).
GPS Kit $9.99

I have both of these. They both do all the classic straight line nav
functions. They both have learning curves vis-a-vis their UI and
function organization.

They both record tracks.

They both record targets of opportunity (pin drops).

Data can be exported to the PC/Mac and displayed in Google Earth.

(I also have Motion X Drive, but it's not a good GP navigator).


--
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 2/6/12 12:10 PM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>>
>> That's your error right there! :-)
>>
>> Terje
>
> iDevices?

Yeah, I assumed that meant one of the Apple "Walled Garden" devices
where you can get anything you want as long as Apple wants you to do so. :-)

--
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

On 2012-02-07 06:38 , Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> On 2/6/12 12:10 PM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>>> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>>>
>>> That's your error right there! :-)
>>>
>>> Terje
>>
>> iDevices?
>
> Yeah, I assumed that meant one of the Apple "Walled Garden" devices
> where you can get anything you want as long as Apple wants you to do so.
> :-)

Yet, other than a couple cash scams, the idevices have been to date
immune to malware. Not the case with Android.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygree...googles-scans/

I'm not a fan of walled gardens for general computing - but for mobile
phones on which s/w can be installed from a large, international base of
contribution, it's a better model. Esp. as we're heading towards more
personal transactions with our phones.

I do banking with my iPhone, for example, as well as business related
tasks that cannot be exposed to malware. More and more smart phones
will have payment devices integrated into them. A walled garden is a
good thing in such devices.

--
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

On 2/6/12 2:51 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2012-02-06 10:30 , Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>>
>> What I am looking for is
>>
>> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
>> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.
>>
>> 2. continuously updated
>> ETE or ETA
>> BRG to way point
>> Distance to way point
>>
>> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>
> How will you be using it? For air nav? Car? Walking?
>
> Paid for iPhone Apps that I have.
>
> GPS Motion X - $1.99 (usually $2.99).
> GPS Kit $9.99
>
> I have both of these. They both do all the classic straight line nav
> functions. They both have learning curves vis-a-vis their UI and
> function organization.
>
> They both record tracks.
>
> They both record targets of opportunity (pin drops).
>
> Data can be exported to the PC/Mac and displayed in Google Earth.
>
> (I also have Motion X Drive, but it's not a good GP navigator).
>
>

Thanks Alan! The GPS Motion X compass/navigation screen and the
ability to create waypoints from maps, addresses and coordinates
does me well.

Whether walking, cycling, driving or flying, I make use of
SOG, VMG, DIS, BRG, ETE and ETA.

Thanks!
-Sam

On Feb 7, 5:22*pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/6/12 2:51 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
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>
>
>
>
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> > On 2012-02-06 10:30 , Sam Wormley wrote:
> >> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>
> >> What I am looking for is
>
> >> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
> >> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.
>
> >> 2. continuously updated
> >> ETE or ETA
> >> BRG to way point
> >> Distance to way point
>
> >> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>
> > How will you be using it? For air nav? Car? Walking?
>
> > Paid for iPhone Apps that I have.
>
> > GPS Motion X - $1.99 (usually $2.99).
> > GPS Kit $9.99
>
> > I have both of these. They both do all the classic straight line nav
> > functions. They both have learning curves vis-a-vis their UI and
> > function organization.
>
> > They both record tracks.
>
> > They both record targets of opportunity (pin drops).
>
> > Data can be exported to the PC/Mac and displayed in Google Earth.
>
> > (I also have Motion X Drive, but it's not a good GP navigator).
>
> * *Thanks Alan! The GPS Motion X compass/navigation screen and the
> * *ability to create waypoints from maps, addresses and coordinates
> * *does me well.
>
> * *Whether walking, cycling, driving or flying, I make use of
> * *SOG, VMG, DIS, BRG, ETE and ETA.
>
> * *Thanks!
> * -Sam

These gadget guys are nearly as fascinating as their gadgets,can't say
they know so much outside their chosen subject though which amounts to
a moving gadget and the surface of the Earth.We use to use atomic
clocks to fill in the gaps in the GPS system way back when yet for
some unknown reason they projected the Earth's rotational
characteristics out into the celestial arena even though it doesn't
fit.

Now,I had this project going on since 2005 where I work with an uneven
rotational gradient of internal fluid dynamics between equatorial and
polar latitudes acting on the surface crust,it is called plate
tectonics and the evolution and motion of the surface crust is
dependent on a maximum equatorial speed reflecting 15 degrees of
geographical separation with 1037.5 miles,it also reflects 1 hour time
difference.

I would have asked that these dummies come up with a system which
treats daily rotation as an independent motion from its orbital motion
and reflecting an equatorial speed of 1037.5 miles per hour and a full
rotation of the 24901 mile equatorial circumference in 24 hours but
discover that they are entirely stupid when it comes to a moving
Earth,sorry to say.

You do know the Earth is round and rotating ?.

On 2/7/12 11:36 AM, oriel36 wrote:
> I would have asked that these dummies come up with a system which
> treats daily rotation as an independent motion from its orbital motion

You don't get it Gerald--the earth's rotation (changing over epochs)
*is independent* of the earth's orbital period. There are currently
366.242199 rotation of the earth every astronomical year. This is
easy to measure with a gyro, or even 5th grade kids siting a prominent
star with two sticks, and a timer.

On 2012-02-07 12:22 , Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 2/6/12 2:51 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>> On 2012-02-06 10:30 , Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> Any Smart Phone App recommendations?
>>>
>>> What I am looking for is
>>>
>>> 1. A way to drop a pin or otherwise create a way point on,
>>> say Google maps as opposed to typing in coordinates.
>>>
>>> 2. continuously updated
>>> ETE or ETA
>>> BRG to way point
>>> Distance to way point
>>>
>>> The closest I've found for the iDevices is Air Nav Pro.
>>
>> How will you be using it? For air nav? Car? Walking?
>>
>> Paid for iPhone Apps that I have.
>>
>> GPS Motion X - $1.99 (usually $2.99).
>> GPS Kit $9.99
>>
>> I have both of these. They both do all the classic straight line nav
>> functions. They both have learning curves vis-a-vis their UI and
>> function organization.
>>
>> They both record tracks.
>>
>> They both record targets of opportunity (pin drops).
>>
>> Data can be exported to the PC/Mac and displayed in Google Earth.
>>
>> (I also have Motion X Drive, but it's not a good GP navigator).
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Alan! The GPS Motion X compass/navigation screen and the
> ability to create waypoints from maps, addresses and coordinates
> does me well.
>
> Whether walking, cycling, driving or flying, I make use of
> SOG, VMG, DIS, BRG, ETE and ETA.
>
> Thanks!
> -Sam

Glad I could help.

--
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).