TrackMyJourney v0.6.0 (Beta) - Live GPS Tracking updated

13 Jul

Posted by mfs in Free mobile cell phone applications |

TrackMyJourney v0.6.0 (Beta) - Live GPS Tracking *updated* Introduction
TMJ-Mobile is a Java mobile phone application that uses GPS data to provide a number of functions, including navigation, location tracking, map display and route plotting. It receives its location coordinates by communicating via Bluetooth with a separate GPS receiver, or via the phones internal GPS if supported. The phones built-in GPRS/3G/GSM data connection is then used to send its location over the internet to the TrackMyJourney website where you can then share your location and recorded tracks with your friends.

Requirements
The program is written in Java (J2ME) and works on a number of mobile phones, in particular most new Sony Ericsson, Nokia and BlackBerry models. As a minimum requirement, the phone should have Bluetooth or an Internal GPS Device, be able to run Java applications (often listed in phone literature as J2ME or ‘3D Java Games’), and support the MIDP-2.0/CLDC-1.1 Java device configuration (this should include most mid- to high-end phones bought in the last couple of years).

v0.6.0 Released

This version contains a number of extra small features and bug fixes.

Changes

- New option on various screens to Send Location/Waypoint by SMS

- Added new Speed unit options: Metres per Second (m/s) and Minutes per km (shown as mm:ss /km)

- Plan/Map/Nav View menu option to ‘Hide Clutter when Scrolling’.

- Route Page ‘Edit routepoint’ context menu option

- Can now add waypoint by directly entering lat/lng.

- Exact display Scale now given on Plan/Map pages (eg 1:25000 etc). This needs the phones physical screen height to be entered into Settings to work correctly

- Distance to Selected Waypoint from highlighted waypoint now shown on Waypoints page. (Allows the distance to be measured between two arbitrary waypoints)

- Text/TRACK page shows stats for Calories used Walking, Cycling & Running

- Improved waypoint display on Plan/Map pages - if ‘Waypoint Names’ are hidden, then scrolling around highlights the name of the nearest waypoint to the centre of the screen. Context menu then allows direct selection of that waypoint.

- New Main Menu/Display option to define what action the 0 (zero) key performs, eg Display Main Menu (original behaviour), Create New Waypoint, Pause Track Recording, etc.

- Main Menu/GPS option to Pause Track Recording, plus an ‘Auto-Unpause’ function which begins recording again after a certain distance has been reached (defined in Settings).

- Settings option to split Route page vertically (new default is now horizontally split - looks better on portrait screens)

- Settings option to display current location of Sun and its path across the sky (the ecliptic) on the Gauges page. Can be used as a simple ’sundial-in-reverse’ to find the direction of true north when stationary (normal GPS only allows compass points to be estimated from direction of travel).

- Settings option to ‘Apply Extra Altitude Smoothing’, reducing the ’spikiness’ of the altitude graph.

- New GPS Logging option ‘Raw GPX File’ - generates a GPX file of the unfiltered data from the GPS device.

- File/Export Waypoints to OSM format allows waypoints to be opened directly for editing in JOSM for upload to OpenStreetMap

- Creating a new waypoint from Plan/Nav/Map page now allows the waypoint type to be defined at the point of creation

- Waypoint types now sorted by name

- Fixed bug whereby the Waypoints Context Menu was inaccessible when no Waypoints were being displayed in the list.

- Some long menus (eg Waypoint types) now accept ‘multi-tap’ alphabetic key entry (ie, key3 = D, key6 twice = N, etc) indicated by the letters ‘Abc’ at the top of the menu.

- Settings option ‘Larger Selection Box’ increases the distance from the centre of the screen for displaying Waypoint names.

- Settings option to prompt for Confirmation when Clearing the Track/Route etc to prevent accidental usage

BlackBerry Specific…
- Blackberry ‘menu’ key can now be used as a shortcut for displaying the Main menu and Context menu.

- Fixed BlackBerry bug whereby the APN Settings weren’t being saved properly between restarts.

- (Hopefully) fixed weird effect due to a BlackBerry bug whereby some icons were being drawn in the wrong position on screen.

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Stephen

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http://www.trackmyjourney.co.uk/index.php?page=register&

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