GeoTours Mobile
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GeoTours Mobile is the newest addition to the GeoTours family. GeoTours Mobile turns your Smartphone or PDA into a personal digital tour guide. The software allows you to load tours created with GeoTours Web into your mobile device and displays the associated media (audio, image, or text) when you reach each tour location. While taking your tour, all locations will be displayed along with each's distance and direction. Tours can be previewed without a GPS receiver, but a GPS receiver is required for taking the tour. Cost: $19.99 or Download Free Trial |
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Features
- Displays audio, image, and text information at specified geographic locations
- Reads tours created through GeoTours Web and standard GPX files
- Ability to preview each tour location which lets you see and hear all media for a tour location without being there!
- Ability to remove tour locations from a tour that you don't want to visit
- Plays audio alerts for locations without associated audio
- Prevents device from going into standby during a tour
- Displays general tour information such as author name, tour type, and number of locations
- Displays relative direction and distance to each tour location
- Displays GPS information including latitude, longitude, heading, speed, and number of satellites
- Automatically loads last good tour when opening program
- Ability to specifiy units, location proximity, media directory, GPS connectivity settings, and other tour options
- Program layout adapts to various screen sizes (great for Smartphones!)
- Next menu lets you cycle through program screens with one push of a button
- Store and select from multiple tours
- GeoTours Web makes it simple to create, share, and download your own tours
Supported Devices
Any compatible Smartphone or PDA with a GPS receiver*
* Note that a GPS receiver is not needed to preview tour locations in GeoTours Mobile.
Recommended Device
The HP iPaq 6945 Smart Phone comes equipped with an integrated GPS receiver and Windows Mobile 5.0. This devices makes it easy to take GeoTours Mobile on the road and simplifies your life by allowing you to use one device for your phone AND GPS system! To learn more about the HP iPaq 6945 or to purchase one, click here.
Requirements
Software
- Operating System: Pocket PC 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional and Classic
- Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 or Pocket PC 2003
- .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (download here)
Hardware
- PDA/Smartphone: Touch screen is required
- GPS Receiver: Integrated or attached* via Bluetooth or Serial Port
* Attached GPS receivers must communicate with the device through NMEA sentences.
More Information
For a detailed review of GeoTours Mobile by Travel By GPS, click here.
Screenshots
| Main screen which displays the loaded tour and other tour information. |  |
After clicking Start Tour, GeoTours Mobile connects to your GPS receiver and displays the distance and direction to each tour location. |  |
| When you reach a tour location, the associated media (audio, image, and text) is displayed and the audio starts to play automatically. |  |
If there is a text description for the tour location, it can be viewed by clicking the more button. |  |
| You can choose your units, location radius (proximity), media directory, if you want the device to prevent going into standby during a tour, if you'd like an audio alert to be played upon arriving at a non-audio tour location, and your GPS receiver settings. |  |
During a tour, you can view your GPS information on the GPS screen. |  |
Documentation
Free Trial
The trial version is fully-functional with the following restrictions:
- Only 5 tour locations will be loaded from each tour.
- Tour location audio will only play for 15 seconds.
Purchase Full Version
When downloading the full version of GeoTours Mobile, you will be provided with a license key and a URL to download the latest version of the software. Note that if you already have the trial version installed, you can simply input the license key you're given into the trial version to unlock the restricted features and turn it into the full version.
Latest Version: 1.0.4 (6/20/2007) Release Notes
Cost: $19.99