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Off-Road Navigation with GPS Fugawi Global Navigator 3.3.1(4)
By admin | May 14, 2007
Fugawi on the PPC
Once you have some maps downloaded to your PPC, you’re ready to roll. As mentioned earlier, functionality on the PPC is limited to a subset of the PC-based version.
Figure 5: Main screen of Global Navigator with a local topographic map loaded.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the interface is built on the PPC2002/PC2003 o/s style, with most of the functionality built into the menu options at the bottom of the screen. From the File menu, the Maps/Open function provides a list of maps available for loading.
Figure 6: List of maps available in both program and storage memory. Unfortunately, only one can be loaded at a time, and there is no ‘automatic’ loading of the adjacent map once you hit the map boundary.
Moving around on the map is accomplished by tapping and dragging in the opposite direction to where you want to see – much like sliding a paper map under a glass viewing window. (I know, it sounds weird, but it’s quite intuitive, actually.) Zooming in or out of the map is accomplished using the top or bottom buttons (or up/down if it’s a joystick) of the PPC’s D-pad.
Figure 7: Depiction of the special functions of the D-pad keys when in Fugawi Global Navigator (from the Help file).
…to be continued…
Source: pocketpcthoughts.com
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