nogago - free outdoor navigation for your BlackBerry.
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nogago is an outdoor navigation system for your Blackberry®.
nogago provides the functionality of stand-alone outdoor navigation systems:
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nogago is a perfect companion for your next weekend activity. Discover tracks for running, hiking, cycling wherever you are. nogago is also a great tool to find running tracks close by while on business trips. Recently moved to a new city? find new ways!
nogago is free. Download Over-the-air (OTA) / ZIP and enjoy the great outdoors !
You need a BlackBerry® smartphone with GPS functionality to run nogago.
Unfortunately due to Verizon policies for GPS use on BlackBerry® nogago does not work on Verizon phones !
With other BlackBerry® smartphones you need to buy an external GPS mouse for around US$/€ 30 that connects to your BlackBerry via Bluetooth. nogago also works fine in this setup.
nogago is reported to work on other smart phones that feature GPS (either internally or externally) and support Java (MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1), such as the Nokia E51 and E71.
There are two main use cases for nogago.
Track and measure where you are going
After opening nogago the instrument view is displayed.
You need to connect to the GPS (press “1″) to detect a signal. This usually takes about one minute or so, after that the red marker starts to move around and shows you where North is. Additionally in the topline of the display you see your current coordinates. The marker for “North” is unreliable until you start moving.
You can create a track log (press “0″) of your movements and share this track with your friends and family when you are back. Press “3″ to reset the odometer, whenever you want to start over with measuring your time and distance. This does not affect your track log but resets display, so when back home you can analyze how far, fast and long you went for what was recorded.
You can see your traces in the map mode pressing “9″ (always facing north) and return to the instrument view by pressing “9″ again.
In map mode your current position is displayed as a red dot. Your current track log is displayed as a red line and shows you where you went.
When you are back home, you can view your track on the map, and do all kinds of fun things (example fly along your track in Google Earth. Share your favorite tracks with the world, such as this fellow shared his round trip on Cook island (map provided by OpenCycleMap):
Navigate along a pre-recorded track.
You can download tracks from Internet communities such as gpsies and store these tracks on your mobile. You can even do this over the air (access m.gpsies.com from your BlackBerry® browser). You can load the track by pressing “2″. Tracks must be in GPX format. As nogago track logs are also in GPX formats, you can also follow one of your previous track logs.
nogago will then enter the navigation mode. Two additional markers appear in the instrument view to give you directions to your next waypoint. The black bar shows you the direction for the next waypoint.
In the example you need to go right. The waypoint after next (depicted in grey) also is found in that direction.
The bar on the right hand side shows you the distance to the next waypoint and – as you get closer – this bar will shrink.
Below the bar you see the estimated distance to your next waypoint.
Just in case, you loose your track, press “5″ to find the closest waypoint and get directions there. Pressing “4″ and “6″ allows you to select the previous and next waypoint respectively. By pressing “7″ you can reverse your direction and turn around and go back along the track.
Depending where you are the GPS signal has a certain precision (between 10 and 100m). We accomodate for this and recognize that you have arrived at a certain waypoint if you came close enough to the waypoint. This is triggered by distance. Press “8″ to alter the trigger distance between 25m, 50m, 75m and 100m. Once you arrive at a a waypoint nogago will beep.
Key Commands (also available via the command button)
| Key | Function | Description |
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| 0 | New Tracklog | Records your tracks as a GPX file. Before first use set data directory, where nogago should store these track logs. |
| 1 | Connect to GPS | Connects to the GPS unit of your BlackBerry. |
| 2 | Read Waypoints | Read a GPX file from the data directory. |
| 3 | Reset Odometer | Resets metrics recorded by nogago back to zero (speed, distance, elapsed time). |
| 4 | Previous Waypoint | Choose previous waypoint as the navigation target. |
| 5 | Closest Waypoint | Choose closest waypoint as navigation target. |
| 6 | Next Waypoint | Choose next waypoint as navigation target. |
| 7 | Reverse Direction | Navigate into reverse direction of the track. |
| 8 | Trigger Distance | Change sensitivity of waypoint detection (100m, 75m, 50m, 25m) |
| 9 | Toggle View | Display your track as a path. |
| Set Data Directory | Set the standard directory in which nogago looks for yor files. | |
| Exit | Quit nogago application. |
Find tracks
Equipment
Your BlackBerry® loaded with nogago has just one short coming when compared to a dedicated outdoor navigation device: it is not weatherproof and cannot be mounted on a bike. Don’t worry, there are things to help you out:
So,save yourself € 200 and the hassle of keeping yet another gadget charged. Save the environment another piece of toxic electronic trash (as you will certainly dispose your outdoor GPS in a couple of years, once GALILEO will give you 1m precision).
nogago is copyright (c) 2009, Volz Innovation GmbH, Loffenau, Germany.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of nogago (”The software”) and associated documentation files to install the
Software on one ore more smart phones from the download location provided by
Volz Innovation (www.nogago.com).
It is not permitted to copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicence, reengineer, decompile
and/or sell the software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
IN THE SOFTWARE.
External libraries used by nogago:
- XMLPull Parser by Stefan Haustein and Aleksander Slominski available from xmlpull.org
- KXML2 Parser by Stefan Haustein available from http://kxml.sourceforge.net/kxml2/
KXML2Parser is copyright (c) 2002,2003, Stefan Haustein, Oberhausen, Rhld., Germany and has separate licencing terms.
If there are questions please don’t hesitate to ask:
Raphael Volz
Volz Innovation GmbH
Kirchhaldenweg 10
76597 Loffenau
Germany
Mail: info@volzinnovation.com
Homepage: www.volzinnovation.com
Phone: +49 (0)721 35 27 665
Fax: +49 180 355 185 1075
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Imprint
Volz Innovation GmbH
Kirchhaldenweg 10
76597 Loffenau
Germany
Other offices:
Waldhornstraße 51
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
Managing director:
Dr. Raphael Volz, CEO
Additional information about the company:
Handelsregisternummer/ Register number:
HRB 70 44 18
Zuständiges Registergericht/ Register court:
Amtsgericht Mannheim
Umsatzsteuer-ID/ European VAT ID:
DE 25 99 68 336
D-U-N-S Nummer/ Number:
340784101
