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A few years ago, one of the first geocaching apps I used (successfully, I might add…) on my pocket PCs was BeeLineGPS by VisualGPS.  Now updated to version 1.90, this handy piece of software can be a geocacher’s all-in-one outdoor tool and is perfect for hikers, fishermen, hunters  and other outdoor enthusiasts, providing a convenient paperless solution to managing waypoints. Feature-rich, BeeLineGPS  offers the following:

• Tracks
• Export Tracks to Google Earth KML files (learn more…)
• Map Modes: Course Up and North Up
• Programmable navigation fields (Map and Trip screens) (Bearing, Bearing Symbolic, Cross Track Error, Distance to Waypoint, ETE, ETA. Heading, Heading Symbolic, Odometer,  Speed, Max Speed, Maximum Altitude, Minimum Altitude, Average Speed, Trip Duration and Altitude Difference (max-min), gradient (min,max and average), altitude total ascent/decent and more)
• Altitude, speed and acceleration profiling
• Waypoint management – thousands of waypoints (PDA memory limitations apply)
• Waypoint Averaging (Programmable Dilution of Precision (DOP) threshold to enhance average calculation / Standard deviation of the position to show the position accuracy)
• Waypoint Projection
• Support for GPX and CSV files
• Active waypoints – Trigger message events
• Setup active waypoints to play a sound file when they are within a programmable range
• BeeLineGPS can alert when you are near a geocache, safety camera.
• Multiple screens (Analog gauge panel – Altitude, speed, compass and vertical speed  / GPS Status – Position, Azimuth/Elevation, Satellite Signal Quality / Trip/Digital Panel / Map / Analysis)
• NMEA logging – recording and playback
• Differential mode indication
• Over 120 waypoint icons to choose from
• Support for any screen resolution
• Support for VGA screen resolution (any resolution)
• Support for landscape and square screens

• User configurable screens

For more information, navigate over to http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/default.htm 

Price: US$29.95 (with free updates): http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/Purchase/Purchase.html

Free 30 day evaluation version: http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/Download/Download.html

Bryan Eley (40 Posts) - Website | Twitter | Facebook

Bryan is a software tester and network admin for a small multimedia company that deals primarily with the network/PC technology sector, despite the fact that his background is actually in the biological sciences. His first PDA was a Palm m100 back in 2001 and has been fiddling with Pocket PCs and Smartphones for several years now. In 2008 he was a Software Judge for SmartPhone and PocketPC Magazine.