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GPS Tuner v5.0 final and a new website at www.gpstuner.com has been released. New version of desktop Map Calibrator is also available, which helps you to calibrate maps on your PC.

Overview

GPS Tuner is an off-road navigation software for PocketPC devices. While most car navigation software gives you the possibility of planning your route based on a road network, GPS Tuner gives you the ability of navigation where the roads end.
GPS Tuner is an excellent tool for hiking, geocaching, boating, flying, driving and many other sporting activities, where the monitoring of duration, distance and speed can be important.

What’s new in v5.0

99% rewritten code
New User Interface
Improved speed
Trip Computer
Large JPG file is supported now
Supports landscape and square screen type

Features

Offroad navigation
Ideal for Geocaching
Multilingual
Selectable Metric, Imperial or Nautical units
24 National Grids are supported (like WGS-84, British (OSGB36), NAD27, NAD83…)
GPS Tuner supports JPG files as maps
Easy Calibration on Pocket PC or using Desktop Map Calibrator (free) program
Auto map loading feature
Real time rotating compass with big target arrow
38 selectable Compass tools
Trip Computer with 31 selectable tools
NMEA recording and playback
See your friends position displayed in GPS Tuner (GPS Share)
Flexible waypoint management
Google Earth compatible (can Open and Save KML files)
Area Calculation feature is also available in our Geo version

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