We are looking for GPS Tuner users who can write articles, reviews, case studies, tutorials about how to use GPS Tuner in real life. Please also attach some photos/screenshots. Short videos are also welcomed!
The articles must be written in English, because we would like to publish them in our website. There is only one limitation: it must be related to GPS Tuner!
In return we will send a quality off-road Hat or T-Shirt (or both of them - depending the long and quality of your article) with embroidered GPS Tuner logo and an additional full GPS Tuner license.
We are especially looking for tutorial articles in the following themes:
Creating and using maps
Using Map Calibrator (exporting maps for GPS Tuner)
NMEA logging and replaying
Area Calculation
Track logging
Using Trip Computer
Geocaching
Please send your article in e-mail to: info@gpstuner.com
We are waiting for your material and it would be greatly appreciated, because it would help a lot for other users also!
GPS Tuner Review - Neil Brown
TomTom is a great voice-guided road navigation solution. But, there is far more to GPS than simply finding out which exit to take on a motorway. I enjoy hiking and orienteering, and decided that it would be interesting to look at an application enabling me to use a GPS system in this context. Enter GPSTuner…
Before I look at the application for real, a word of caution. I would advise you spend some time with the application before you first need to use it, so that you can be sure of what you are doing. I say this not because it is particularly complicated to work (it is not!), but, simply because I first decided to give it a go when I was reasonably lost in a large forest near my home, and ended up sat on a woody bank searching for the correct COM port. This was less than ideal, and I’d heartily recommend against it. GPSTuner is not complicated to set up (indeed, the automatic setup option worked perfectly, selecting COM 6 as the correct port), but it does make sense to sort it in the comfort of your own home.
Read the whole review...
GPS Tuner against Crime - Adrian Freiberger
In November of 2007, the GPS Tuner was fundamental to prison of a burglar
and recovery of the stolen vehicle. The motorcycle belonged to a company of
games, and was collecting the money when it was taken by two armed men. What
they did not know was that the motorcycle had a tracking system, and few
minutes after the robbery the police already have the latest coordinates of
the vehicle.
It triggered the police helicopter, which has GPS,
to locate the
motorcycle. But the accuracy of the helicopter was two blocks (red circle of
the image), preventing the action of the police because of the large number
of homes. The tactical response group (n ° 01 of the image) knowing that I
have a pocket pc with gps, asked my help to locate the motorcycle.
It was past me the coordinates (26 º 12 '27.10 "South, 48 49' 47.71" West).
Put digital compass in the GPS Tuner, which revealed with extreme precision
the location of the vehicle (n ° 02 of the image) where the Tactical
Response Group, made the arrest of a burglar and recovered the motorcycle.
Guide to Geocaching and GPS Photography - Turgan
I’ll try to create a simple guide on how to geotag your photos. This way you can create neat maps with embedded photos on them.
Example here
I am in no way an expert in any of these fields. Also English is my second language. Please excuse and alert me, on any errors I might have below.
Tools:
First we’re going to load a custom map (an actual geospatial image of the location) off the net to our GPS Tuner Map Calibrator on our desktop computer.
Then we’re going to calibrate and break this map into parts so Gpstuner can give us a high quality map covering a large area.
We are going to load these into our Pocket PC, preferable to our memory card.
Once in the pocket pc we’ll make sure our camera’s and our pocket pc’s time is synced. Then we are ready to start taking photos.
Once our trip is complete we’ll transfer the photos and the logs and if needed, convert them to a GPX format. (especially required for GpicSync)
Then we’ll use GPicSync or RoboGeo to tag the exif’s of our photos and generate google maps enabled photo gallery of our trip using either one of these software or the awesome Google Picasa.
Read the whole tutorial...
