Handy gps (free) app for android description: The perfect companion for your next outdoor adventure.
Seek find record and return home with handy gps.
Important!
You must enable the high accuracy (gps) location mode to use this app.
To get a gps fix make sure you are outside and wait.
It will not work indoorsthis app is a real navigation tool designed for outdoors sports like hiking bushwalking mountain biking kayaking and trail riding.
Its simple to use and works even in the remotest back country since it doesn 39 t need network connectivity.
It allows you to work in utm or lat lon coordinates so you can use it with your paper topographic maps.
Waypoints and track logs recorded in the field can be be viewed later in google earth.
Note: this is a free trial version and is limited to storing only 3 waypoints and 40 track log points.
You can use the trial version for as long as you want but if you like this app please install the paid version of handy gps to get an unlimited version with lots more features.
Thanks!
Base features: shows your current location in easting northing (utm) or lat lon shows your speed direction of travel and total distance travelled in either metric or imperial us units can store your current location as a waypoint and can store a track log to show where you 39 ve been waypoints and track logs can be imported from and exported to google earth kml and gpx files allows manual entry of waypoints in utm mgrs or lat lon coords can guide you to a waypoint with the goto screen using true or compass bearings optional audible proximity alarm on goto page has a magnetic compass page (on devices with mag sensors only) computes the local magnetic declination at startup using the igrf 12 model for use on the goto page.
Automatically computes geoid correction at startup to improve altitude accuracy can display either a simple map of your current location and the stored waypoints or a google map if a data connection is available supports the world wid
