The LocBrowser Basic Edition assists mobile people in finding their route.

It is especially well suited for traveling or outdoor activities like hiking or cycling.

The LocBrowser Basic Edition is a comfortable and flexible viewer for digital maps. Additionally, it supports real-time navigation - when combined with a GPS receiver.

In particular, it has the following features:

- Supports all common formats for raster maps such as BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG

- Integrates multiple maps

- Has powerful and flexible scrolling and zooming operations

- Real-time positioning

- Full-screen mode

- Auto-follow mode

- Easy on-device calibration

- Supports all GPS receivers with NMEA 0183 output (external or integrated)

- Available for Windows CE 3.0 (Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002).

Update Description:

v1.20:

- Support for PPC2003 (Windows Mobile 2003).

- Finally the GPS receiver can be configured interactively.

- Profiles can be changed using the new "load profile" menu entry.

- Profiles receive the extension lbs; the default profile is now locbrowser.lbs.

- Profile format is now XML based.

- Improved installation procedure.

- Exchanged zoom keys/buttons (due to several requests).

v1.10:

- Avatar icon now transparent.

- Course indicator added (enter the auto-follow mode to see it).

- GPS (port) auto-configuration supported (cf. the documentation).

- Simulation mode added: you can log GPS data and play it back (cf. the documentation).

- A couple of other (internal) changes.

v1.00:

- MIPS and XScale PocketPCs now fully supported.

- Clarified name of application.

- New installation procedure.

- Now clean shutdown (especially regarding the used COM port) even when init is failing; made failure message somewhat more informative.

- Fixed filename issue related to use of commas.

- Fixed help for PPC2000: now PegHelp is used (PIE in PPC2000 has problems with inner jumps).

- Fixed memory leak when switching back from calibration.

- Increased stripe for scrolling.

- Fixed selection problem in sequential view.

- Reduced load for processing NMEA data.

- Fixed bug related to file name length.

- Increased trigger time for menu invocation.

- Redesign of scale control: cf. the documentation.

- Display of position now with minutes.