BlueSky GPS - Personal Locator and Navigator

Brief summary of features:

• show GPS satellites and coordinates
• add, edit, import and export waypoints
• sending your position by SMS
• history of sent and received SMS
• navigation to selected point or to the nearest point
• speedometer with two ranges
• blank map with points and track
• trip computer
• logging NMEA sentences
• settings

Localization. Using coordinates from Bluetooth GPS receiver program continuosly searches for the nearest point in your surroundings and calculates your distance and direction to the point. You can create your database of waypoints by collecting waypoints from your current position or you can prepare them in PC and export them to the phone.

Sending position by SMS. BlueSky GPS is able to send your position and distance and direction to the nearest point in SMS message (e.g. "16 m NW to Museum of Art"). You can send this SMS manually and also automatically in specified interval. Moreover you can request position from another BlueSky GPS user by sending SMS (you can request position also from phone without BlueSky GPS - syntax is "BLUESKY PASSWORD"). To protect you from abusing this service by another people, you should select your password - it will answer only to SMS with correct password. Received SMS with position are saved as new point in database. This enables you to keep track of someone else (or you can let BlueSky GPS to navigate you to him/her). SMS with position can be received also by stock GSM phone (without BlueSky GPS), but without this program you have much less comfort.

User interface. It has five pages for displaying information from GPS, you can change them by pressing left and right arrows. All pages have their own context menu, which you can open by pressing OK key.

Satellites

• coordinates (latitude, longitude)
• altitude
• dillution of position
• graphical view of satellites and signal strength

Map

• blank map with current position
• shows track and waypoints
• zooming and scrolling on the map

Speedometer

• speedometer with two ranges of speed

Navigation

• compass
• navigation to selected point or to the nearest point
• distance and bearing to the point

Trip computer

• trip time, moving and pause time
• maximal and average speed
• distance
• GMT (universal time)

Some features have allocated hotkeys:
(1) - Add waypoint
(2) - Send SMS with position
(3) - Request position from another BlueSky user


Settings:

• units - metric/imperial
• coordinates format
• backlight on/off
• SMS responding on/off
• SMS sending interval
• more...