Overview
GPS Tuner is an off-road navigation software for Pocket PC devices. While most car navigation software gives you the possibility of planning your route based on a road network, GPS Tuner gives you the ability of navigation where the roads end.
GPS Tuner is an excellent tool for hiking, geocaching, boating, flying, driving and many other sporting activities, where the monitoring of duration, distance and speed can be important.
Features
Offroad navigation
Ideal for Geocaching
Multilingual
Selectable Metric, Imperial or Nautical units
24 National Grids are supported (like WGS-84, British (OSGB36), NAD27, NAD83…)
GPS Tuner supports JPG files as maps
Easy Calibration on Pocket PC or using Desktop Map Calibrator (free) program
Auto map loading feature
Real time rotating compass with big target arrow
38 selectable Compass tools
Trip Computer with 31 selectable tools
NMEA recording and playback
See your friends position displayed in GPS Tuner (GPS Share)
Flexible waypoint management
Google Earth compatible (can Open and Same KML files)
Area Calculation feature is also available in our Geo version
What's new in v5.4
'Open Street Map' has been added as online map source
'Google Topo (Terrain)' has been added as online map source
Suunto X9i data format(.sdf) handling (Import and Export) has been added
Automatic map rotation in 90 degrees has been added (instead of flipping 180 degrees)
Built-in camera photo can be taken and added to waypoint directly
Waypoints can be exported via TXT output module
GPS Tuner v5 installation package
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Two installers are included in this package for the two different
Pocket PC Operation Systems. One of them is for Pocket PC 2003 OS
devices, while the other one is for Windows Mobile 5 or 6 Pocket PCs:
- Pocket PC 2003 installer: GPSTuner_v5_pocketpc2003.exe
- Windows Mobile 5 or 6 installer: GPSTuner_v5_wm5.exe
1.) Connect your PDA to your PC via ActiveSync 4.0 (or later)
2.) Start the installer (according to your Pocket PC OS type)
3.) Follow the steps
Port Splitter application
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If you have trouble with connecting your GPS receiver to GPS Tuner,
please use the free JAL - Port Splitter application:
- For Pocket PC 2003: portsplitter_wm2003_setup.exe
- For Windows Mobile 5 or 6: portsplitter_wm5_setup.exe
Before starting GPS Tuner, please start Port Splitter and set your
input GPS port and an output virtual port.
You are able to type the name of the input port (for example "COM4")
into the textbox, if you could not find/configure the GPS port in the
predefined list.
Then start GPS Tuner and set your GPS port same as Port Splitter's
virtual port.
Please do not let GPS Tuner to Auto-configure your GPS receiver,
please answer 'No' for that question. If you can not start GPS Tuner
(because of freezing), you should delete the GPSTuner.ini file from
GPS Tuner's folder also.
Users' Manual
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A detailed Users' Manual is also included in this package in PDF format.
You need Acrobat Reader to open and read PDF files. If you do not have
Acrobat Reader, you can download it from:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Map Calibrator
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With the help of freeware Map Calibrator you can make calibrated maps
for GPS Tuner on your Desktop PC. Map Calibrator can open and save
waypoint, track, route and area files also.
Map Calibrator installer: MapCalibrator2_install.exe
GPSTuner_v54j.zip [14.48 Mb] (Count: 78)
