This is CourseLogV2, an EWE application that runs under Windows Mobile 2005, WM 6 using your GPS receiver to tell you where you are, how long and how far you go and where you have been. This version 2 provides a great improvement : it displays your position on a map. You can insert as many maps as your device can handle, provided each one is small enough to be handled in memory. The software uses a concept of calibrated "tiled maps", only a set of tiles is in memory at a time and switching between tiles is automatic.
The software also displays your track on the map and you can set waypoints to check your direction, distance, time to arrival. You can also re-use your track as waypoints and even reverse it so that you can find your way back ;-))
Note : if, by chance, you have been using the version 1 of this software (without map), please switch to V2. I will no longer support version 1 because of too many bugs. Version 2 has all features of version 1.
First CourseLog is a freeware, open source (see CPL down) programmed in java on a specific virtual machine name "ewe". The virtual machine is freeware too so there is no licence fee required to use CourseLog. You need a GPS receiver connected to your Windows Mobile device. This is usually done using a serial port (COM6: on my QTEK 9100), possibly mapping a Bluetooth connection to a serial port using Windows pocket Bluetooth . If you have a device with a builtin GPS receiver, it should also be mapped to a serial port so that you can access it. CourseLogV2 reads in NMEA sentences to determine your position.
Second, you need a map to display your position on. I personally use several sources such as
http://maps.google.com
http://www.geoportail.fr (french maps)
(if you know about other sources, send me links)
These web sites provides only pictures coded as bitmaps without any associated geographic information. If you want to use that picture to locate yourself, you need to give the software some points to use as references. This is done by providing a small text file with longitude and latitude values, associated to (x,y) positions on the picture. You need only 2 points per picture.
