Description:
MobileTraveler enables you when you are traveling abroad (e.g. Japan) to find your way around there. It uses Google to find routes and enables pre-fetching parts of Googles/Microsoft, OpenStreet maps and satellite images at home or any where you have WiFi or cheap datarates of your mobile telephone provider.

Besides this it is especially usefull when you are visiting Japan. Traveling in Japan with the public transport is very safe and a fast way to move around. MobileTraveler contains almost all Japans Honsu area trainlines and all shinkansen tracks.

And best of all it's freeware.

Visit http://www.mobiletraveler.nl to download the MapConverter too that helps you to create large maps at the WinXP, WindowsVista & Windows7 PC. These maps can be used by MobileTraveler which speeds-up the performance of MobileTraveler and decreases tile downloads (money payed to your mobile internet provider).

If you find this tool useful, please donate to the developer.

Known issues MobileTraveler v1.4:
It is known that the storage card the MobileTraveler1.4 application is installed on should not be locked (write protected). This is because when saving tracks or adding/editing POI values are saved on this storage card.

The MobileTraveler1.4 application must be restarted in case a new map is added in the maps directory. This because MobileTraveler1.4 checks the available maps at startup.

The installation directory of the MapFileConverter application on your PC is of importance if you are running Windows Vista. It is not allowed to install it in the "Program Files" directory because Windows Vista does not allow the MapFileConverter application to store files in this directory. And that is just was MapFileConverter does. It stores the created maps in the Output sub directory. Using the default directory that is sugested by the msi install program works however fine.

Update Description:
v2.3.3763:
- Clear voice guidance is now included.
- Maps of major cities can be downloaded.
- Zoom interpolation added.
- Pixels are doubled to increase readability incase full map is switched off.
- Map drawing is now done parallel to receiving and handling user input enabling faster response.

v2.2:
- New version with performance improvements and bug fixes.

v2.1:
- New in this release is the finger friendly POI list and zoom option in the photo linked to these POI's.

v1.2:
- Use of non 320x240 screens is now improved.
- Maximum of 768x768 map size is used.
- It now also support non-US-English systems.

v1.1:
- Now supports not only Google Maps but also Microsoft Maps and Openstreet Maps.