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Updated May 06, 2008 by law.skynet
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User Guide for Mobile Trail Explorer

1. Introduction

This is a small user guide for Mobile Trail Explorer application.

2. Requirements

Mobile Trail Explorer requires the following to work:

You can check that you have all of the above APIs using the JavaME API Checker

3. Installation

3.1 Installing over the air

You can install the latest release over-the-air to your phone by downloading the application file from http://www.substanceofcode.com/software/mobile-trail-explorer. Point your phone browser to JAR file using the following URL address: http://www.substanceofcode.com/downloads/midlets/TrailExplorer.jar

3.2 Installing locally from JAR file

Another way to install the application is to download the JAR and JAD files to your local disk and use the phone manufacturer software to upload and install the files to your phone. You can download the latest release here.

4. Setup GPS

After you have installed the software to your phone you can configure the GPS unit like this:

5. Record your first trail

Now that you have configured the GPS device you are ready to record your first trail.

How to start

How to stop

6. Key-Pad shorcuts

Function Primary Key Secondary Key
Zoom In 1
Zoom Out 3
Pan View Left Left Key 4
Pan View Right Right Key 6
Pan View Up Up Key 2
Pan View Down Down Key 8
Centre View Fire Key 5
Change View 0

7. Settings

You can change application settings by selecting a "Settings" menu item from the main screen.

7.1 Settings / GPS

7.2 Settings / Export folder

Export folder is used when trail is exported to a file. Export folder can be located in the phone's memory card or in the internal memory. Some phones allow only specific folders to be used with Java applications.

7.3 Settings / Recording

Recording settings are used for defining what sort of location data is recorded to your trail. There are following options:

7.4 Settings / Web Recording

Web recording can be used to send current location to a web server. Options are:

Tag Description
@LAT@ Latitude
@LON@ Longitude
@ALT@ Altitude
@TRAILID@ Trail identifier (date stamp)

E.g. Following URL 'http://server/record.php?lat=@LAT@&lon=@LON@&alt=@ALT@&id=@TRAILID@'

Would be converted to this: 'http://server/record.php?lat=43.1432&lon=20.124&alt=89&id=200805062130'


Comment by bigbu...@web.de, Mar 17, 2008

How can one set a waypoint?

Comment by ManlyJack, Mar 29, 2008

Select Waypoints from the menu, then Add new waypoint and it will already have the coords in for the current viewing position

Comment by bhanu2951983, Apr 22, 2008

can raster image of map is used in place of osm.

Comment by diegorodriguezperegrin, May 14, 2008

Hello. I must be idiot, but I can't find the JAR file anywhere on this site. The link supposedly there to link it sends you to a zip file containing lots of source files I don't know how to handle. Thanks for your help.

Comment by diegorodriguezperegrin, May 14, 2008

Hello again. I found the idiot here. It wasn't me, fortunately. Microsoft Explorer itself changes jar extensions into zip. I may change it back manually, because how to 'force' IE to respect the extension is something you can do in several ways. For today, I simply dropped IE and used Firefox instead. Everything fixed!

Comment by diegorodriguezperegrin, May 14, 2008

Ok, now I could start the application. I granted it full data access, first.

Trying to save the trail into my microSD card, I always get a message asking permission to add and edit data into the memory card. When I say YES, it throws an ugly java/lang/OutOfMemoryError? message. The memory card has 2GB free space... what can it be?

Comment by Saydujjaman, May 18, 2008

how to get source code for download for this nice application and how to get be part of this team if i want be. there is option for SVN but i donlt have svn tools


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