Description:
The LocBrowser Basic Edition assists mobile people in finding their route.
It is especially well suited for traveling or outdoor activities like hiking or cycling.
The LocBrowser Basic Edition is a comfortable and flexible viewer for digital maps.
Additionally, it supports real-time navigation - when combined with a GPS receiver.
In particular, it has the following features:
- Supports all common formats for raster maps such as BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG
- Integrates multiple maps
- Has powerful and flexible scrolling and zooming operations
- Real-time positioning
- Full-screen mode
- Auto-follow mode
- Easy on-device calibration
- Supports all GPS receivers with NMEA 0183 output (external or integrated)
- Available for Windows CE 3.0 (Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002).
Update Description:
v1.20:
- Support for PPC2003 (Windows Mobile 2003).
- Finally the GPS receiver can be configured interactively.
- Profiles can be changed using the new "load profile" menu entry.
- Profiles receive the extension lbs; the default profile is now locbrowser.lbs.
- Profile format is now XML based.
- Improved installation procedure.
- Exchanged zoom keys/buttons (due to several requests).
v1.10:
- Avatar icon now transparent.
- Course indicator added (enter the auto-follow mode to see it).
- GPS (port) auto-configuration supported (cf. the documentation).
- Simulation mode added: you can log GPS data and play it back (cf. the documentation).
- A couple of other (internal) changes.
v1.00:
- MIPS and XScale PocketPCs now fully supported.
- Clarified name of application.
- New installation procedure.
- Now clean shutdown (especially regarding the used COM port) even when init is failing; made failure message somewhat more informative.
- Fixed filename issue related to use of commas.
- Fixed help for PPC2000: now PegHelp is used (PIE in PPC2000 has problems with inner jumps).
- Fixed memory leak when switching back from calibration.
- Increased stripe for scrolling.
- Fixed selection problem in sequential view.
- Reduced load for processing NMEA data.
- Fixed bug related to file name length.
- Increased trigger time for menu invocation.
- Redesign of scale control: cf. the documentation.
- Display of position now with minutes.
