GPS software for pocket pc

[PetersDiscovery]

Hi

 

I have a HP6950 PDA with tomtom software allredy instaled. This is not the best software for Geocachers.

 

Do you know any free GPS software for this machine (windows mobile 2005).

 

peter.john@iol.pt

 

Thanks in advance

[+Chuy!]

It's free but do provide a donation if you like the program. I've been using it for a year now and it's the best I have found.

 

There is lots of freeware for PPCs. I downloaded a conversion program; lunar program; and some games.

[+Nachtraaf]

In my opinion: Quality for free does not exists...but it is worth the money ($24 - $34) if you only want to use your pda:

+ GPS Tuner 5.1.

+ BeeLine GPS

 

I have used gpstuner 4 when I only had my pda for geocaching: it was great and I still use it as backup.

 

Greetings,

Hans

[+desync0]

I second GPS Tuner, it's great!

[Evil.2000]

It's free but do provide a donation if you like the program. I've been using it for a year now and it's the best I have found.

 

The Link is dead :-(

 

I think its the best to open a thread to collect all freeware or open source programs.

 

Because i was searching around and spend a lot of time for finding free software, which is very rare.

 

Evil.2000

Edited October 12, 2007 by Evil.2000

[+geoduck.5]

I use BeeLine GPS. Worth every penny, great tech support, the best all in one caching program in my opinion.

[+rayt333]

I use Gpxview on my Ipaq, it may not be the best but it is the best I have found so far since mobipocket no longer will work.

 

http://www.freewareppc.com/travel/gpxview.shtml

 

Forgot to mention, it is free though

 

Also available here:

http://strandberg.org/gpxview/download.asp

Edited October 12, 2007 by rayt333

[+kd4crs]

I use GeoScout with my iPaq 2215 and bluetooth GPSr. It even downloads the logs and the cache details if you want to.

[+Dark_Faerie]

Thankyou for the links! []

 

I've spent most of the past three weeks looking for and trying software.

There seems to be a lot that won't find the correct com port.

 

Last weekend I tried GPS melody from www.pdatopsoft.com and it was great until I got 50m (150 feet) from the cache and it stopped as I was close. Got that down to 12 feet on Friday night.

 

After finding this thread yesterday, I got a demo copy of Beeline which I used this morning to find a cache and I was very impressed. It's also the first one I've found that has an instruction manual. I had problems getting it to connect to my bluetooth GPS last night but no problem today.

 

I'm using a T-mobile MDA Vario II phone with window mobile 2005 (has Internet explorer so I can view cache pages on the move too) and a generic bluetooth GPS receiver with SiRF III chip in it (Should work under trees and in cities). I've managed to download .loc files direct from geocaching.com to my phone and use with Beeline. I just can't work out how to zoom in and out on the map page.

[+Qurius]

Try cachemate for geocaching and http://free.3dtracking.net for tracking puprposes.

 

Morten

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[+RumJungle]

I just can't work out how to zoom in and out on the map page.

 

Zoom may be accomplished using the joystick keys. Push up to zoom in and pull back to zoom out.