Client sw; moving bookmarks

[David Lesher]

{Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}

So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
for an outboard receiver.

But what kind of stand-alone mapping clients are available for
Android, and how can he convert his bookmarks/notes to it?
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[miso]

On 11/6/2012 4:43 PM, David Lesher wrote:
> {Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}
>
> So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
> some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
> for an outboard receiver.
>
> But what kind of stand-alone mapping clients are available for
> Android, and how can he convert his bookmarks/notes to it?
>

Other than google is your friend, I am stumped. But these tablets have
GPSs in them. Isn't that good enough?

Personally, if you want mapping and a GPS, buy a GPS with maps. Thanks
to smartphones, GPSs with lifetime maps are pretty cheap these days. If
you are using it in your car, you don't have to deal with some cop that
thinks you are using your phone while driving.

There is gpsd for android, so I guess that is half your battle. But I
thought it is only to run the internal GPS.

[isw]

In article <k7cas2$22$1...@reader1.panix.com>,

David Lesher <wb8...@panix.com> wrote:

> {Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}
>
> So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
> some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
> for an outboard receiver.

It takes a bit of work to get it going, but I've been using gpsmid:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gpsmid/index.php?title=Main_Page

for quite a while. I'm pretty sure versions are available for Android
too. One thing I like about it is that it keeps the map database on the
phone, so there are no network charges just to find out where you are.

Isaac

[miso]

I don't know every brand, but it looks to me like the GPS receivers in
the list are all bluetooth. The original poster wanted to use a usb GPS.

[isw]

In article <k7d0o3$hj4$1...@speranza.aioe.org>, miso <mi...@sushi.com>
wrote:

That's mostly because older phones didn't have a BT connector to hook a
GPS to. gpsmid can also work with phones having built-in GPS -- provided
the carrier wants to allow access to it.

Anyhow, it's an open source project, so it's likely that something could
be worked out.

Isaac

[Craig Wallace]

On 07/11/2012 00:43, David Lesher wrote:
> {Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}
>
> So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
> some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
> for an outboard receiver.
>
> But what kind of stand-alone mapping clients are available for
> Android, and how can he convert his bookmarks/notes to it?

What sort of maps do you want? What will you be using it for?

There's a variety of software based on OpenStreetMap, see this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
Much of it is free, and has an options for downloading maps to use offline.

For bookmarks, I assume you mean some sort of waypoints? If so, probably
best to export them as GPX format. This is a standard format, which a
lot of other software supports. So you should be able to open it in some
Android software.
If Delorme can't export as GPX, you could probably use GPSBabel to
convert from some other format.

Craig

[David Lesher]

Craig Wallace <craigw84@fast_NOSPAM_mail.fm> writes:

>On 07/11/2012 00:43, David Lesher wrote:
>> {Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}
>>
>> So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
>> some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
>> for an outboard receiver.
>>
>> But what kind of stand-alone mapping clients are available for
>> Android, and how can he convert his bookmarks/notes to it?

>What sort of maps do you want? What will you be using it for?

He's changing platforms, not goals. He's seeking an equivalent
to his Delorme program, for use in a car. Ones that depend on
cell phone data are not in the picture.

[miso]

On 11/9/2012 11:01 AM, David Lesher wrote:
> Craig Wallace <craigw84@fast_NOSPAM_mail.fm> writes:
>
>> On 07/11/2012 00:43, David Lesher wrote:
>>> {Wish I saw a better newsgroup for this...}
>>>
>>> So a friend has Delorme on a laptop, and would like to move to
>>> some kind of Android tablet. He'd get one with a USB port
>>> for an outboard receiver.
>>>
>>> But what kind of stand-alone mapping clients are available for
>>> Android, and how can he convert his bookmarks/notes to it?
>
>> What sort of maps do you want? What will you be using it for?
>
> He's changing platforms, not goals. He's seeking an equivalent
> to his Delorme program, for use in a car. Ones that depend on
> cell phone data are not in the picture.
>

For the Delorme Inreach, Delorme provides a free program on Google Play
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.delorme.earthmate&hl=en

It has been too long since I set it up, but once it knows you paid for
the Inreach, you can download maps from Delorme for free. Just topo
maps. It still isn't as good as a real GPS, which is far better in my
opinion. I downloaded about 1.5Gbytes of maps, but found it kind of
redundant since I had a Garmin GPS. I have no idea if Delorme monitors
this, but if you can get a hold of an Inreach, you could just download
the maps. The Earthmate program works fine with the built in GPS, or as
well as a built-in tablet/phone GPS works.