maemo.org - Talk - [Fremantle Maemo5+Harmattan Maemo6] [Announce] Track@Way (trackaway) 2.1.x - GPS Tracking for your mobile

"Track@Way is an Open-Source (released under GPLv3 license) application for mobile phones which lets you track your way using the embedded GPS in your mobile phone (or, where supported by the phone, an external GPS antenna).

Many use Track@Way (spelled "track-a-way") during their sport activities, some uses it during their travel to geoference their photos, some use Track@Way just for fun! Myself, i use Track@Way for my sport activities and leisure vacation.

Suppose, for example, that you go out for trekking in the mountains: Track@Way in its most basic usage can record where you have been so that you can review later your path, project it on a map (check gpsvisualizer.com for a free converter tool for Google Maps and Google Earth) or even reuse it as a guide for your next trekking in the same area!"

Usage examples:
- import your old oziexplorer maps (ozfx2/ozfx3)
- load one jpg/png from your scanner and geo reference it with the internal calibrator tool
- load your offline piece of map and view that placed above the OSM Cycle Map to complete the missing areas.
- create your tracks, view statistics and export to gpx or upload to gobreadcrumbs.com
- navigate using a saved track
- while offline, search a place or a city on your map using one GNS database (development).
- the application is available for symbian, maemo and meego

Homepage:
http://www.trackaway.org

Forum:
http://forums.trackaway.org/

Trac:
http://trac.trackaway.org/trackaway

N9 Harmattan version:
http://trackaway.org/index.php/downl...armattan-meego

MAEMO / FREMANTLE:
UPDATED!

Changes:
trackawayfree (2.1.3rev542x)
* Added pixel zoom setting in configuration menu
* Fixed pixel zoom behavior

trackawayfree (2.1.3rev536x)
[2.1.3]
* Added European 1950 datum support
* Fixed map redraw after track show/hide switch
* Changed the smoothness of map scrolling
* Fix crash on unsupported map formats
* Fix UTC mismatch on some phones
* Fix scale lengths: now coherent with UTM grid!
* Moved new waypoint button to top
* Can hide the icon bar to maximize screen area
* Maemo specific: 2x pixelzoom, increased jpg import quality to 95%, minimize button.

[2.1.1]
- Added Rome 1940 support. You can load maps calibrated with Rome 1940 datum
- Better format for local maps, reduced number of files
- Fixed .desktop file
[2.1.0]
- Added map sets. You can load maps into sets
- Fixed minor bugs
- Added Live Track color setup!

UPDATED DOWNLOAD:
DEB of version 2.1.3 r542x (2014.01.05) for maemo.
http://www.trackaway.org/index.php/download-for-maemo
http://ge.tt/8PNZBTC1/v/0

DEB of version 2.1.3 r536x (2013.09.20) for maemo.
http://ge.tt/3bvetns/v/0

Release page:
http://trackaway.org/index.php/downl...armattan-meego

Attached you can find the file extra_map_sources.tar.gz to add some online map source (gmaps, terrain, hybrid, sat, cloudmade and wanderreitkarte...)

Feel free to contact the author (Willy) for requests, bugs or suggestions.
There is also a "supporter version" with a few more features and an bigger number of maps loadable at the same time.
You can request this version to the author giving him a little donation.
http://trackaway.org/index.php/supporter-edition

Maemo version contains has also a little addon to run an external script to jump to a location on the map.
With one click near the coordinates in the lower part of the screen, a new window appears with the "Custom search" button.
Pressing it, you could enter a string to search that will be passed as argument to the script "/opt/trackaway/custom.sh"
In this way:
/opt/trackaway/custom.sh" $CURRENT_LAT $CURRENT_LONG $STRING

The result of that script is expected to be in the form of:

LAT
LONG
DESCRIPTION

(separated by \n)

After this, the map will jump to that place.
I have also prepared i script that using an sqlite db filled of city/coordinates returns a list of places ordered by distance.
A good source for this kind of data is GNS:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm

Previous versions:

DEB of version 2.1.1 r523 (2013.08.09) for maemo.
http://ge.tt/4fVS7ro/v/0

DEB of lversion 2.0.0 r502 (2013.03.15) for maemo
- bugfix version
- minor improvements creating tracks
- added some translation
- added north cross
- synced with android version 2.0.0
http://ge.tt/4aXKwBb/v/0

DEB of version 1.9.9 build r494 (2012.07.31) for Maemo
http://ge.tt/api/1/files/4YlzPNL/0/blob?download

Version 1.9.8 rev487a for Maemo (bin):

http://ge.tt/api/1/files/9A6GnyK/0/blob?download

(unpack in /opt/trackaway and copy the .desktop file in/usr/share/applications/hildon )

A great app by a great developer!! :D Many thanks Willy!!