I'm a big fan of the great outdoors and love to go off exploring hills, valleys and streams whenever I can. Unfortunately though, I have no sense of direction, which has led me into a few scrapes in my time.
Step forward Tracky, an application that allows you to plan out routes and track your current position through a highly visual interface. In order to use the program, you need to set your start and finish points, along with any places you want to visit in between.
Using GPS technology you can then take it out with you and get a portable view of your current course and baring at all times. The software downloads maps from Google Maps to provide you with a pretty detailed plan of where you are in the world. The amount of stats and options locked within Tracky are incredible, and you can access all sorts of information about your real-time altitude, speed and distance to the individual marker points.
All this is great and everything, but compared to many Sat Nav systems I've tried, it all seems remarkably fiddly to set up. The zoom control is a trifle cumbersome, GPS configuration can take some messing with, and there is a distinct lack of user help within the program itself.
Although Tracky can certainly help you find your way back down the mountain, the chances are you'll be stuck up there for a while figuring out how to use the darn thing.
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TESTED VIRUS FREE - Softonic GUARANTEEDTracky is a great navigation utility for many outdoor activities, like hiking, (mountain)biking, skiing, driving, sailing, and even golf, city trips, and geo-caching. You have full insight in where you were, where you are, and how to get where you like to be.
Information like altitude, speed, and distance is available at any moment. You can store the location of you favorite Points Of Interest (POIs), e.g., home, nice view points, etc. Tracky draws the track you are traveling, together with previously recorded and downloaded tracks. By projecting the tracks onto your favorite maps from e.g. Google Earth or TerraExplorer, you can follow tracks and navigate to any POI. Most features are already useful without maps.
Tracky computes the distance to your POIs. E.g., golfers can measure the length of there strokes, or the remaining distance to the hole or any of the existing hazards. By the advanced compass and exact insight in your coordinates, you have a powerful tool for geo-caching.
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