Pinta GPS turns your Android phone into an outdoor GPS complete with electronic compass and moving maps. No glitz or gimmicks, Pinta GPS shows clear, reliable, and relevant navigation information. Whether you are hiking, geocaching, exploring cities, traveling by train or bus, or anything else that needs navigation, Pinta GPS shows you the information you need, and only that.
Pinta GPS is designed as a `direct line' GPS: it doesn't do route planning, and the shown directions are always `as the crow files'.
Pinta GPS is not just a moving map. It has more than fifty types of display, and the map display is just one of them. It can also show:
- latitude, longitude and heading
- distance and bearing to a destination
- current altitude and the required climb/descent to a destination.
- Extensive GPS status information
- Compass-like displays for easy navigation
- Magnetic compass function with optional true north correction and warning for strong magnetic field
- Sunrise, sunset, and sidereal time for any place on earth
- Sun azimuth (apparent direction) and elevation
- Raw magnetic, accelerometer, and light-sensor info
See http://keesvr.home.xs4all.nl/pinta/screenshots.html for a guided tour of the screen shots.
Pinta GPS comes with sets of pages for most common uses, but you can add, remove, or modify pages, or design your own pages, and save them for later use.
Features of Pinta GPS:
+ Navigation using built-in GPS
+ Navigation using Bluetooth GPS devices (Only on Android 2.0 and later)
+ Metric and imperial units, and knots/nautical miles
+ Special mode to preserve night vision
+ Extensive manual in the app, see http://keesvr.home.xs4all.nl/pinta/manual.html
+ Offline maps. If parts (tiles) of a map are not available, they can be downloaded immediately or recorded for later downloading
+ Maps can have an overlay with the current destination, route, or a complete GPX file, or use a blank map for just the overlay
+ Quickly switch between multiple pages of information
+ Very flexible page layout, also suitable for tablets of any size
+ Preprogrammed sets of pages for general use, hiking, geocaching, public transport
+ Add, remove, modify, store, and load pages of info, or design a page from scratch
+ Store and load complete page sets
+ Independent page sets for portrait and landscape orientation
+ Supports GPX routes and way points
+ GPX files and map tiles are stored on SD card, and can be backed up to your computer, or even shared via your computer with Pinta GPS on another device
+ Support for following a route, automatically selects next point in route
+ Stale information is shown in red to warn you
+ Electronic compass warns for strong magnetic fields
+ Smart display lighting for longer operation
Pinta GPS supports the following maps: OpenStreetMap Mapnik and Transport, OpenCycleMap, and MapQuest open map.
Although we have tried our very best to make Pinta GPS as reliable as possible, it is always possible that you encounter a problem. Please report any problem to java.instruments@gmail.com, so that we can fix it. Pinta GPS is not a hit-and-run app. We use it on our own trips, and we want a smoothly functioning program, now and next year.
DISCLAIMER
YOU are responsible for your own safety, and like any consumer GPS, Pinta GPS can NOT be your only means of navigation. YOU must make sure that you can also get home safely without Pinta GPS. We do not accept any responsibility for loss of time, material, life, or any other damage, directly or indirectly, due to Pinta GPS.
We mean it. Phones can break, batteries can get empty, GPS fixes can get lost without quick recovery, and yes, our software can contain bugs. If you are hopelessly lost without Pinta GPS, you are doing it wrong.
