GPSToday: Killer GPS app for WM

At that place are a few true killer apps on Windows Mobile and GeoTerrestrial's GPSToday is certainly a contender (Live Search is the other).

What is GPSToday?

As far every bit I can tell, it fills in the gaps that other GPS programs get out open up. From my experience, its main function is to only tell you lot where you are in the world. But unlike Google Maps/Live Search, which just shows your physical location on a map, GPSToday goes one pace farther past getting your coordinates, translating that into a real street address and displaying it straight on your Today screen (via the plugin).

All of this happens within about fifteen seconds and a unproblematic bear upon of an icon.

In that location is besides the ability to adhere your GPS coordinates automatically to photos, come across your location of your contacts automatically and become directions to and from places. Plus the new feature: GPS weather, where it volition bear witness your conditions straight based on your GPS coordinates. All wrapped up in a prissy, simple (and currently gratuitous) program.

Read on for the feature breakdown and cursory review!

Breakup

There are two main parts to the plan: the Today plugin and the Maps application. There is also a useful configuration screen for setting up and modifying the settings.

Plugin: This is the principal interface for the app and it'southward pretty simple, it's also "affect friendly" so your stylus need not use. To the left is the Cherry icon with a footling satellite icon—it turns green when trying to pull your GPS bespeak and displays the number of satellites establish. In the middle is the "display" section which shows your street accost (or optionally coordinates).

The little person/icon is "Save to Contacts" which allows you to directly re-create the current info to a electric current or new contact.

The "stopwatch" icon is the option to automatically lookup your current location at timed intervals (1 minutes, 5, x, 30, ane 60 minutes, Car or Off) so in theory you could have your current location updated every 30 minutes automatically, all you have to practise is glance downwardly at your screen and you'll know your street address.

Finally the Map icon brings upwards the mapping portion. Tapping the Map will download mapping information of your electric current location and will optionally show points of interest (POI) and/or Contacts, which is very absurd.

For those concerned with battery life, GPSToday can do a one-fourth dimension Quick Fix: it will turn on, exercise the lookup, display the street address and then turn off the GPS system meaning yous only have GPS/data activated for most 20-30 seconds—all the work is done for you! This is probably my favorite office every bit nothing beats finding our current street address. What good is there in knowing your visual location on a map or your coordinates when trying to meet upward with some friends? It'south much easier to tell someone "Yeah, I'm at…435 Motts Street right now". (Annotation: due to GPS sensitive, the exact location lookup is sometimes off by a few houses, and then YMMV. But for the nearly part, this will get your address inside a few stops.)

Maps: the Map is accessed via the Today plugin and has your usual assortment of options: display POI, contacts, zoom in/out, refresh, atmospheric condition and geocaching/geotagging of pictures options.

Weather: the weather option was merely added to the latest version and is pretty simple just very cracking. Basically information technology pulls downward your current temperature and bones atmospheric condition based on your GPS location. It can brandish this on the today plugin as the temperature or on the maps:

Geotagging of photos: here's another very useful feature. Simply enable it via the add on freeware program (it'll prompt you to download) and whenever yous snap a photograph, the GPS coordinates volition be tagged to the picture. This of course tin then be used for stuff like Flickr, where built in mapping of your photos can add a cool twist to your collection.

Conclusion and the future

GPSToday is but a fantastic awarding. Information technology was apace updated by the developers for 320x320 resolution devices (Samsung i780, Treo 800w/Pro), has new features being added all the fourth dimension (e.g. GPS Conditions) and I've heard we can expect some more than features in later versions (remember "friend finder/social networking" abilities).

If you accept GPS built in, this is one of the almost useful programs available every bit knowing your electric current street address, seeing your contacts in relation to you lot, existence aware of the current weather condition, geotagging your photos, etc. are all things we tin use in our daily lives.

In short, programs like GPSToday are what make "smarpthones" truly smarpthones—they do the piece of work for you, seamlessly and provide actually useful information in an instant.

Any downsides? Probably just these two major limitations:

• Only WM Pro devices (WM Standard is not currently supported)
• Mapping information is U.S. based merely

Hopefully some of that volition be addressed in subsequently versions.

Download Here and read their FAQ with some tips and tricks right here.

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/gpstoday-killer-gps-app-wm

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