Quick App: Go To Tool 9
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:29 am EDT
[ sideways YouTube video for proper mobile viewing ]
If you’re at all into geocaching, chances are you’ve already check out the options for wayfinding on webOS. If you haven’t already looked at the demo version of Go To Tool, we’re going to point you that way now, and then to the full version of Go To Tool ($4.99) As the video above from developer Long Beach IT demonstrates, Go To Tool is chock full of useful features for geocachers, location loggers, and those who happen to suffer from chronic forgot-where-I-parked-my-car-itis.
Not only can you plug in a location or address and find your way there with Google Maps, you can do the same with a virtual GPS compass (plots your heading from your movement) and maps from open-source mapping project OpenStreetMap. With Go To Tool you can import and navigate to locations in GPX and LOC files, find nearby caches, save locations for later reference, and much much more. Really, just watch the video, there’s far more happening in those 324 seconds than you might expect.
Go To Tool is available from the Palm App Catalog for $4.99, a demo version and lite version are both available free of charge.
9 Comments
I liked the original go to tool when it was put on preware. I went out all day looking for stuff. back then the compass wasn't extremely accurate so i would get in a geocache general area and then kinda stumble around for an hour until i found it. lol. Still awesome tool though. I could never figure out though how to add stuff.
Watch the video!
Do it run in the background?
If you leave tracking active it will still do alerts and notifications when not the foreground app. It does not currently run in a 'headless' state without a visible card. It's in the roadmap but issues w/ webOS 1.4.0 and headless apps moved it down the list.
I love the ability to send your location to an email or another user. I have been stuck on a dirt road with no real way to describe my location and this gave a map so I could get help right to me.
Come on, the combination of Geocaching for WebOS and MapTool is a much powerful and cheaper solution: direct access to Geocaching.com entries, mapping all entries on an OSM map, compass from GPS or using the sun, send you location by email or SMS, offline maps...
Sour grapes from the dev of Map Tool? Thanks! I'll chime in.
Cheaper than FREE to download 2 different apps? So I show my caches in Map Tool and I want details on a nearby cache... What do I do? Switch apps and find it in the list... Maybe re-load caches from the web in GC for webOS? Not easy, not as intehrated as it sounds.
Isn't scraping Geocaching.com a violation of their Terms of Service? They don't seem to care right now but it is a violation.
What hoops does one go through to get off-line maps?
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