Handy GPS

Description:

The perfect companion for your next outdoor adventure. Seek, find, record and return home with Handy GPS. This app is a powerful navigation tool designed for outdoors sports like hiking, bushwalking, tramping, mountain biking, kayaking, boating, horse trail riding, and geocaching. It is also useful for surveying, mining, archaeology, and forestry applications. Handy GPS is simple to use and works even in the remotest backcountry since it doesn't require network connectivity. It allows you to work in UTM or lat/lon coordinates so you can even use it with your paper maps.

Base Features:

• Shows your current coordinates, altitude, speed, direction of travel, and distance travelled in metric, imperial/US, or nautical units.


• Can store your current location as a waypoint and record a track log to show where you've been on a map.


• Data can be imported from and exported to KML and GPX files.


• Allows manual entry of waypoints in UTM, MGRS, and lat/lon coords.


• Can guide you to a waypoint using the "Goto" screen and sound an alert when you're getting close.


• Has a compass page which works on devices with magnetic field sensors.


• Automatically computes the local geoid offset to improve altitude accuracy.


• Supports the world-wide WGS84 datum along with common Australian datums and map grids.


• Shows GPS satellite locations and signal strengths graphically.


• Can compute waypoint-to-waypoint distance and direction.


• Includes an optional timer line to record walk duration and compute your average speed.

Extra Features:

• No ads, no subscriptions, and nothing more to pay after your initial purchase.


• Unlimited number of waypoints and track log points.


• Email or SMS your location to a friend as a clickable map link.


• Email your waypoints and tracklogs as KML or GPX file.


• Supports common datums and even custom datums.


• Elevation profile, GPS averaging mode, and sunrise and sunset times.


• Export data to CSV file, compute calories, and optional background image.


• Optional location sharing on the web and spoken distance and direction guidance.

Permissions:

• GPS - to show your location.


• Network access - to load maps.


• SD card access - to load and store waypoints.


• Camera access - for taking pictures.


• Prevent phone from sleeping - so proximity alarm works.


• Control flashlight - to allow flashlight use.


• Record audio - for voice memos.

Disclaimer: You use this app at your own risk. The developer accepts no responsibility for you getting lost or injured as a result of using this app. Batteries in mobile devices can go flat. For extended and remote hikes, a battery bank and an alternative method of navigation such as a paper map and compass are recommended for safety.