Odgps is not free any more

Starting November 14, 2009 I only offer Odgps as a licensed software. Odgps was very well received in the past 4 years.

Frequent user feedback tells me that Odgps is a very helpful little program to many people all over the world.

Unfortunately donations did not cover the expenses I have providing Odgps to the public. I had the choice of either taking it off the web or charging at least a small amount of money for it.

Everybody who has either donated to Odgps in the past or contributed to it (like the spanish translation of the manual) get a free license. Please contact me if you donated of contributed otherwise for a free license.

outdoor-gps.de domein moved

The outdoor-gps.de domain was completely moved to a new provider.

I also based the new web site on Ruby on Rails and added German pages.

Unfortunately the German pages don't work on Safari and Internet Explorer, yet. Use Firefox if you want to read the German pages.

Move of domain

I am moving the www.outdoor-gps.de domain to a different provider.
If you encounter problems downloading odgps please let me know.
One can also use www.odgps.de. This domain already points to the new provider.

New Build 268

Some users pointed out that te blue triangle on the tracker view was not moveable in build 264.

This was a mistake which I corrected with build 268. It is available at this moment.

Build 268 will not crash if the track reaches the PDA's memory limits. Instead it will sound an

alarm and show a message. The user should close the track and start a new one if this happens.

Plans for short term enhancements to odgps

I plan to add few enhancements to odgps on an irregular basis. Please feel free to comment on features or fixes you as a user want to have made.

Here is the list:

1. Allow to configure a time zone. Today the GPS time is displayes as it comes in from the GPS receiver - wich is UTC. Many people asked for a local time display. I am not sure if the timestamps in the tracks should be localized as well. Any suggestions?
   
2. Keep odgps from crashing when the track fills up internal memory of the PDA. (This is more a bug fix than an enhacement I guess :-)
   
3. Correct the namespace definition in the GPX file for odgps tracks
   
4. Add support for imperial units
   
5. Make the cockpit view configurable. Choose which data to display and at what size.
   
6. Support UTM coordinates

How to load an odgps track into Google Earth?

I have been asked many times how to view a track that was recorded with odgps in Google Earth.

Simply drag the track file onto the Google Earth map. That's it.

Here is how to do it in detail:

1. record a track using odgps. Please read the docs on www.outdoor-gps.de for details on how to record a track.
2. connect the PDA to your PC
3. start up Google Earth on you PC
4. Maybe download the track to your PC or
5. use your file explorer to locate the track on your PDA - provided that you configured your pda to be seen like an external disk
6. drag the file from explorer directly onto the map of Google Maps.
7. The map will start to swivel to the location of your track and show it
8. Using Google Earth you can also find out details about your track like its length and duration of the trip.

odgps stores its tracks usually in MyDocuments\odgps\tracks. You can change this location easily under System/properties/Tracker in odgps.

odgps 1.2 build 264 NEW

I just published the a new odgps build. It has been over three years since the last publish. I started a new job in 2006 and didn't get to work on odpgs. Also I there were no critical bugs.

Aggregating the downloads on a few freeware sites that I know of suggests that odgps has been downloaded several hundred thousand times since December 2005.

I received a lot of suggestions per email. This new build is the first containing the first of the wishes that seemed to bother users most. 

If you want to download odgps 1.2 build 264 please visit

http://www.outdoor-gps.de