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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Wow Tom you are blazing fast !! :D

I had a quick look and I love what I've seen ! I will test further this evening. :)

Could you confirm that this version is only "trail up" or I didn't find the way to switch between "trail up" and "north up" ?

In the final release it would be nice to have in the "GPS Trail" menu an option to Clear trail and maybe another to limit the trail to the last few seconds : my GPS always have some random "brownian motion" around the nominal position so the trail is quickly full of zigzags.

Also as you appreciated my previous ideas here is a new one for you :p : add a smoothing algorithm to average a little the brownian motion of GPS :cool::D

Personally I would adopt the following method :

- always keep the last N values received from the GPS in a "sliding window"

- ignore the 10% lowest and 10% highest values

- make an average of the 80% of remaining values

This would be useful for position and also for direction as the compass is madly turning around in all directions :rolleyes:

Of course if you decide to implement it, this is a very low priority feature ... otherwise other users will lynch me as they are (or may I say we are) all waiting eagerly for a version with geocaching features enabled :D:D

Thanks so much !!

Cheers,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
It works, but I also was a little confused before finding the solution :

You must divide the target in 4 quarters : the up-left quarter is for zoom in, the down-left for zoom out, and up-right and down-right (both) for displaying GPS info :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Thank you, I'll try. And automatic mode? Because I think the default is automatic scaling (as it was in previous builds) and that's what doesn't work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
I didn't find the automatic scaling neither ... but I suppose that in this release Tom only added the new features so we could test them. He will put back together all the features and option to modify preferences in next releases :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alx6ths:
new idea:

- implement screen lock. Small feature which allows you to lock the screen while navigating s oyu can possibly put the device into the pocket etc. Similar feature has Ozi Explorer nowadays.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Do you know S2U2 ? It is very handy : you just have to press power button when you put the phone into your pocket, then to unlock you just slide your finger on the slider at the bottom of the screen :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alx6ths:
Yes, you are right, this is also solution and iam already using this software, but i was comparing this feature to the OziExplorer's feature where i found it very usefull as included inside the application itself ;)

But yeah, this is not the big issue of course and it is minor thing in the light of all others :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I finally got a chance to try it last night.. I found it did scale.. My target was one of my caches near the road on the way home and it originally scaled out to .25 miles, and as I got closer it got as low as 500 feet. However, I think 500 feet is still too large because on the target screen I was nearly on top of the dot because the cache itself is only about 90 feet off the road. I haven't done any very close approaches of a cache yet, perhaps it scales down further.

The track view is interesting. Not sure I'll use it, but I can see it being useful to some folks. :)

I was a bit confused about the "GPS Accuracy" menu option but I eventually came to the conclusion that it'll be set by the PDOP automatically at some point in order to display the accuracy in the bottom-right corner of the screen. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GinoAMelone:
The problem with this is that some units wonk out the GPS when they go into standby.

Mine (Eten X600) does this. Almost no software properly deals with standby and the GPS. If the software has the GPS port open when the unit goes into standby, the port will never provide any updates when the unit wakes up. I have to tell the software to close the GPS port then reopen it. In GCz, this means hitting back, then returning to the GPS screen.

Especially since it looks like GCz is getting some kind of trails functionality, it would be great to have a some way to lock the screen while keeping the unit out of standby. I'll need to check if S2U2 can somehow watch for GCz...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I suppose I did implement all features for GPS Monitor. (not sure. ;D

Please try new test version.

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Gzh/20090416#1239810818

GCzII_20090416_0030_0233g.cab

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fredisco:
Thank you so much.

I have noticed one two new things directly here.

You fixed so the screen doesn't go black. Excellent.

And the Solar Azimuth feature is brilliant! Especially if the sun is near the horizon.

I attached some some instructions for other users.

P.S. On the main start-screen, bottom left where it has the version information. If I click there then nothing happens, could that button be linked to the GPS Monitor. Then you can easily toggle to the GPS Monitor and back, by clicking bottom left (or pressing left softkey).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Hi Tom,

thank you for this new release :)

I found a little issue with the trail when zooming.

Please have a look at the attached image.

View attachment 176734

Also could you please consider to remap keys as following :

up key : switch between "heading up" and "north up"

left key : zoom out + auto-scaling off if auto-scaling was on

right key : zoom in + auto-scaling off if auto-scaling was on

down key : auto-scaling on / off

I think that the functions above are those that one always use and help people while navigating, so they would be interesting to have them at hand mapped on the buttons. The "GPS Informations" and "Satellite view" accessing by taping on screen is enough from my point of view.

Also could you please consider to add a menu to auto limit the trail length to last 10,20,30,40,50,100 positions or "no limit".

Thank you.

Cheers,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] surface320:
Setup on Stripped Down Device

I'm really excited about getting GCz II working on my PND.

When I try to install it, it says Setup Failed - NICQUE Freeware GCzII was not installed successfully. Please run Setup again.

I think the problem this that my PND is running a stripped down version of WINCE 5.0 and doesn't have all the DLLs.

This is the device I am using:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23569

I unlocked it using instructions here:

http://wiki.dealextreme.com/(X(1)S(rebcaw55cw3nzh55ccb1j155))/Default.aspx?Page=GPS info (sku.19609 and similar)

I then installed Miopocket 3.0 Release 53.

The Miopocket installation says:

Apps supporting "Pocket PC 2000/2002/2003" (PPC) or "Windows Mobile 5" ("WM5") have a fairly good chance of working (as long as they have the required DLLs), but there may be some odd display behavior (like menu bar issues and dialog boxes with options off of the screen).

Do you know what DLLs GCz II is using or have any suggestions for what I should try next?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
Just curious how difficult it would be to be able to display the GPS coordinates in other format conversions via menu selection?

For example, my car PNA only accepts coordinated in decimal format (XX.YYYYYY) or degrees-minutes-seconds format (DD XX YY.ZZZZ) and not the "normal" Degrees-Min.Dec format. Would it be possible to have a menu option in the cache display to showing the cache target (and maybe waypoints too) coordinates in other conversions?

Thanks again for this great software!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZzetT:
What do you think about adding Geocaching Live to GCzII ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mandragore:
This GPS Driver is modified for geocaching and compensates speed lag for navigation. Maybe it can help you?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
That mentioned Driver only has an Effect when moving in the same direction, as it calculates (and therefore lies!) a position where you will be in a few seconds, assumed you don't change direction or speed.

It will reduce effect, when you don't stay in an +-22.5° range, and cease lying when you leave a ~60° sector.

Psyberdude's problem clearly is StatNav, and if his phone is not-SirfStar, only a Bluetooth-GPSr can help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mandragore:
Actually, I think it could very well be that Mach2003 'only' had geocaching in mind when he developed the driver in the first place. It should make GPS more accurate and more responsive. The lag compensation calculation you refer to, was added at a later time and is optional. You can stop the driver 'lying' and only have it tell the 'truth' for geocaching. Some quotes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Batistuta88:
Some more quotes from Mach2003:

I havent tried it yet, but I belive it should work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
I went out today to test it. And for me it worked well. I was walking and stopping, and the GPS'r showed correctly if i was moving mor then 2 meters.:):):)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Daemonicus73:
This new driver interests me very much. I have a SE X1 and it suffers bad with the static nav problem. Usually if I go geocaching I pair my phone with my GlobalSat Bluetooth GPS unit but it would be nice to have it all native in the phone.

Can anyone confirm if this works with the X1?

Thanks

D.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
calculated waypoint - too many decimal places

Hello Tom,

today I checked out the new "calculate waypoint" function (based on azimuth and distance) and have to say it worked like a charm - the projected waypoint was totally accurate (well, this also depends on the cache owner who prepared it, I know :) )

Just a very small "bug" - the image says it all. :)

Thanks for GCzII - I use it nearly every day!

Good luck, pal
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
@Mandragore:

yes, you are possibly right. A try would not harm anything...:)

I usually have seen the use of this driver in applications where the navigation tells you to turn too late...

@Tom: Feature Request:

would it be possible to move the GPS Settings to the Settings menu and then add the possibility to preset two (or even more) GPS Receivers. Each should have a Name, Port & Speed. In the screens where GPS is used the menu should have extra Items which are named "Use <Name>" to easily switch between different GPSrs.

This is a Feature for People which StatNav-Problems on NonSirf Devices. They can preset the internal Receiver and an additional Bluetooth GPS and switch quite easily.

Or does anybody know a driver to do this???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Master Darko:
SirfTechIII vs gpsOne

Here are more finding I can report on. My HTC TyTNII (Kaiser) has the Mach GPS Mod Driver installed and the lag setting was adjusted with iGo navigation software. There is no question about it, mod driver fixes the display lag when driving. I had the setting set to 5000 and on the screen I was shown hundred metres in front of the actual position. Then I changed the setting to 500 and all of a sudden I was driving on the par with the passing side streets. No phone restart was necessary. Then came the geocaching and walking test with the 'new' driver.

My old phone/GPS devide, Mio A701 was pulled out for this test too. A701 uses SirfTechIII chip and has static navigation turned off. The latest version of GCzII was loaded onto both Mio and HTC and I set out to find a cache using both receivers.

At first I focussed on Mio. It was very reponsive, updating and recalculating all the time, even at the slow pace. Quiet quickly I homed to within 2 metres of the GZ and found the cache. I simply forgot how easy it was to cache with the old Mio.

Then I took the same slow paced route with the Kaiser, with Mio in the other hand. When I stopped at the GZ (as i knew where it was), Kaiser was pointing 19 metres away while Mio was saying 2m metres. Kaiser was clearly stuck on the same distance for 20 or so metres and has not changed at all.

Next time around I took a lot faster paced approach with the Kaiser. This time Kaiser was more responsive and as I walked right past the GZ, Kaiser showed less than 2 metres. As I continued fast walking past the GZ, distance increased. I repeated the same test again and same sort distance was displayed.

Hence, it seems to me that Kaiser still suffers from the slow motion tracking. However, once you pick up bit of speed it tracks OK and the display lag is gone with the mod driver installed.

Therefore, for me, mod driver improves the things for Qualcomm chipset Kaiser when geocaching but does not completely solve the slow motion tracking.

If you are serious about geocaching and/or being tracked when bushwalking, Qualcomm chipset PDAs may not be for you, SirfTech chipset is the way to go if you ask me! Unfortunately, not many manfactureres use SirfTech chips any more...:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Thanks for the feedback on that, I had it installed today but I was so busy fighting with programs exiting randomly on me I was happy just to find a cache. Turns out my new phone, Tilt 2, had 27 processes running at a clean startup. Add on gpsgate, launch a few things, blam, something gets killed because of the max 32 processes. I've tinkered a bit now, hopefully it'll be better now. Out of curiousity I've booted my Kaiser, which I never recall having such problems on, and it has 23 processes at boot time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
@MasterDarko:

Thanks for the info.

Where is this information from?

Which Software shows you this? I am looking for something similar...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4268137#post4268137

I don't understand half of it, but it verifies what I'd sworn I'd read a while back in terms of 32 max processes.

I'm using MemMaid, I'm sure there are others.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I would second this. I have a bluetooth GPSr that works much better than my built in QualCOMM GPSOne. But to change back and forth requires a regestry edit. If GCz could do this for me with a simple menu option, I would be in love!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Personally I just leave GCZ set like this (sorry, don't have my phone available, so wording is probably wrong):

Com 9, 4800

[ ] Use Windows GPS

This means I'm using bluetooth

Com 9, 4800

[X] Use Windows GPS

Just selecting the box, I switch to internal GPS.

I don't personally see it as a big deal to switch.... options->gps->gps options->tap box.

I'm still trying to make a Bluetooth GPS behave on my Tilt 2. The phone asks to connect to the Serial port EVERY TIME, doesn't matter what software.. GPSGate, GCZ, TomTom, etc... As long as it stays connected it's fine, but the initial attempt to use the bluetooth always pops up a window to ask to connect. I wish I could get rid of that stupid dialog, sometimes it pops up under the application making it even more difficult to deal with. I've tried all sorts of kooky or sneaky things, but I always get this silly dialog.

Unfortunately GPSGate can't seem to talk directly to the GPS, always get a "10030" error about the service, so I have to use a serial connection.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Aha?!

This method doesn't work on my MDA, it resets the Port Information when i check the Box.

Maybe because the program has to force open the BT-Port, there is no COM when no program uses the BT-GPSr. So even some 'intelligent' programs cannot connect, they probe Windows for existant Ports, BT is not connected, so no port and no possibility to use BTGPS.

To your 'behaving': maybe try another GPS. Mine needed no PIN on my old P5x5s, P750 with WM6.1 needed a manual connect like you do, and my MDA (6.5) even opens the COM-Port in the background when needed. Another GPS behaved totally different on my MDA (i tried a few because of my unability to see the automatic behind it). So maybe it is a compatibility problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Unfortunately it's not the PIN, they are paired.. It's the serial port that it's prompting to re-connect. If I had another BT GPS to try I'd certainly do it. I've been wanting another one for a while, but maybe the fat old man will bring it to me at the end of the year. Wife says I already spent too much on the Tilt 2 itself ;-)

By the way, this is the same BT GPS I used on my Tilt with zero problems, although I could use it "directly" in GPSGate. Seems in Win 6.5 GPSGate either isn't working quite right, or doesn't like the BT Stack or something perhaps. I have to use a serial port.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've just noticed that when I save a waypoint, using "Add from GPS" under the waypoints menu, the single digit min has a "-" sign in front of it instead of either nothing or a leading 0.

Has anyone else seen this?

funnily enough, if you go to the GPS Monitor and select "Set Target Location", the result is correct and does not display the "-" sign.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Yes. This seems to be a bug. I get something like W-114 -05.3215. Of course this should be W114 05.3215.

have you tired doing some registry edits? That is how I got my Bluetooth GPS to work. I actualy couldn't get the Bluetooth GPS to work at all before doing some registry work. See here

I just did your COM port method and works great. Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Ya know, I have not tried that... For a long time on my Tilt I had fiddled with the registry so that COM4 was actually my bluetooth device so anything using the internal GPS actually got GPSGate's output from my Bluetooth GPS, which worked out rather well for most things, except I couldn't use the internal GPS in times when I would maybe need to, like RT (Remote Tracker, program to track down your phone if it walks off).

But I might try it.. I back up nightly, not a big deal to do.. Plus I could export the keyset before fiddling around.

So far it seems like it's not that it doesn't work, but rather it prompts when I connect to the serial port that the bluetooth prefs set up. If it didn't prompt all the time it wouldn't be too big a deal.

BTW, when you say my com port method worked for you, was that letting the bluetooth app create a serial port to the BT device, or the more complicated method of fiddling with the regsitry? :) Curious.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Thanks, I tried this driver and there does seem to be an improvement.

Now, another question. There is often talk of making registry edits here. Can anyone recommend a good free editor that they use for WM 6.1?

Similarly, can anyone recommend an app for backing up my phone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Thanks. I wasn't sure if this was a pre-existing problem, or something to do with the gps driver I've just installed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Feature Request

Thanks for the recently added "Remove Caches" option. This has been great for keeping a check on data that is no longer required. I do however have 2 suggestions...

1. When a cache folder is deleted, it would be useful if the cache is also removed from any lists automatically. This way I think we then have the best of both. From within the lists we can remove a cache but keep it's data (useful for temporarily disabled caches). But when removing the cache folder, we would no longer need to then edit the lists manually.

2. When using the sort feature under Remove Caches, can the list be sorted with the chosen sort at the top? Currently when I choose sort by "found it/DNF", my most common sort method, they appear at the bottom and I have to scroll through the whole list of caches to reach them.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I use a program called "Registry Editor" Version 0.9 beta by Schap's. It runs on the phone, not on your PC via USB. It doesn't have anything fancy like favorets or search etc, but it does edit the registry from your phone.

I was just saying that seting the BT device to COM 9 (I am using 8) and leaving the internal one to Windows Managed. However, I am having the same problem where I have to go into Windows BlueTooth Settings and re-set the device to COM 8 each time I run GCzII. I do not know were the registry values for this are, but I suspect when I have some time to do some googleing, I will be able to figure that out. Not sure if that is the solution or not, but maybe. The problem with this meathod is that Google maps, and any other app (GPSed, OziExplorer etc) that I may be using at the same time will be stuck with the internal GPS. The other day, my internal GPS wouldn't even get a lock. I was in a light treed area in the foothills. Should have been fine. Had to do a registry edit in the wilderness to switch to the BlueTooth GPS. The COM port setting in GCz would have worked, exept that the other apps would have been hung out to dry. What would be best is if windows could properly switch back and forth, or if someone smarter than me could make a script to do it. (see link in my previous post on why windows wont switch between my GPSes).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Ah, yes, I did the same thing.. Last fall I was doing two caches in an area, one I pulled up in front of, the other I knew was a mile down the trail. About halfway there I went to pull out the bluetooth GPS and...... it was in the car. So I spent 15 minutes in the woods fiddling with settings to try to wake up the internal GPS. I hadn't used it in a while, and had no cell service so it took forever to warm up.

Glad the toggling of the checkbox works for you, seems to be fine for me. I have to remember to do it, based on what GPS I'm using, but it's a trade off I'm fine with in order to get a better GPS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've just tried this one, but it gave me the same string of error that his other app (Advanced Config) did, even with the latest .net. I wonder if these are for touch screen only.

Anyway, any others anyone can suggest for a non-touch smartphone?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Hi Tom,

today I was exploring the averaging function. Works nicely but one doesn't have any control over coordinates coming into the process. How about to add some visualisation?

- Pic 1: acquired points would be displayed in the circle with dynamically changing zoom ratio so they are spreaded all over the black circle. One could quickly see if there are some abnormalities.

- Pic 2: using tap&drag user could select points which would only be taken into account (the gray circle). Tap would indicate the center of the circle and dragging would specify the radius. The averaged coordinates on the left would be updated right after releasing the stylus. He could repeat drawing the gray circle if he didn't make it the way he wanted for the first time.

This is just an idea. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I'd second this, I think it would be very useful. One suggestion though would be that rather than the tab and drag scaling, rather the facility to move the cluster towards the centre (using either touch or nav buttons) and zoom in or out so that the outer circle encompasses the wanted points. This would make it easier to use on both touch and non-touch devices.... unless of course you don't mind coding two seperate versions :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Yep, I would agree with this, it's better than my original idea.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pahejl:
First of all, I want to thank for this awesome piece of software, I use it every day! My question following:

Is it possible to export logged GPS data as a gpx? I need it for geotagging my photos, which was taken by my "normal" digital camera. I want to use Geosetter.

I don't know, how to convert "..\GPS_Log\xxx.txt" file to any file compatible with Geosetter - I tried gpsbabel, but it did not work. When I used GCzII-tools and convert it to "KML", all "date and time" data disappear.

Thx for answer