Free Android GPS apps?

For the Viewsonic G-Tablet, not a phone. I have a nifty little Garmin
GPS unit that plugs into the USB port on my windows machine and can use
some application (sorry, it's been over a year since I used it last)that
processes the output of the GPS, which is relatively useless since my
house doesn't really move around a lot. It would be super-neat if there
were equivalent software for the tablet, which DOES move around quite a
bit...

Not ready to root the thing quite yet, so it has to be 'legal'.

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Sorry, it's a Delorme, not a Garmin. Probably makes the problem
insoluble :-(

On 01/02/11 21:12, The Real Bev wrote:


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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:14:39 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:


I cannot imagine anybody writing a GPS program for Android that
doesn't use the standard GPS API for the standard GPS chips that
are in practically all Android smartphones.

You need a smartphone anyway, because they use Internet data to
kick-start the GPS. That's why they are so quick.

Apart from Google Maps I like Google's My Tracks and the
independently made GPS Status. I also like Latitude, carefully
and sparingly used.

Hans-Georg

On 01/04/11 08:14, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:


Not quite. I have a prepaid ordinary phone which costs me $10/year and
I have something like 12 hours of unused minutes which will last as long
as I keep renewing at $10/year. Some people need (or want) smartphones.
Not me :-)


I'll look. Maybe I'll get lucky.

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Am 04.01.2011 17:14, schrieb Hans-Georg Michna:

It suffices to load these correction data about once a week, what you
can do via WLAN at home. No need to be online all the time.

But I'm not shure if any program on Android can make use of these data,
when an external USB (Delorme) is source of the GPS data.
All these use online maps.

If you don't use a smartphone with flatrate data, as the original poster
did, its necessary to use an offline map. These can be bought from
Navigon ... with routing ... and all at prices of 90€ or so.

Just to use a "moving map" OSM data will do and the most compressed data
with a very fine user interface for Android comes from "MapDroyd".

Wolfgang