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TopoSports

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TopoSports offers fully offline, GPS accurate, high quality Topo maps covering entire USA(Alaska coming soon), and Canada(NEW!!) for outdoor sports enthusiasts - bikers, hikers etc. The app gives you access to 65000+ quads that cover almost all of USA and Canada. US data is derived from USGS 1:24K DRGs . Canada data is derived from NRCan 1:50K Toporama DRGs. The app also provides offline access to Geographic Names data for downloaded quads imported from GNIS/NRCan.

Demo video at: http://www.toposports.com/main/allvideos (Verizon users - GPS features work on BlackBerry® Tour™, Bold™ and Storm™).

WIFI / 3G recommended. If you have WIFI support in your phone, use the WIFI network option of app to download maps quickly. From our app use (Network Options / Select Wifi. Click Diagnose.). Each map is 5MB to 10 MB in download size. Download tips at: http://www.toposports.com/main/downloadtips

• Download topo maps of any quad in USA/Canada for offline usage.

  • Download 1:24K scale maps for US. For Canada the maps have 1:50K scale.
  • Maps projected for WGS84 datum and are GPS accurate for all mobile devices.
  • Search for maps by feature name.
  • Search for nearby Quads(NEW!).
  • Popular quads are also provided as featured quads for your convenience.

• Seamless mosaicing of quads

• Distance/Bearing tool

• Create custom way points either using your current location or via manual selection.

• Geographic names layer for each quad

  • Search POIs/Way points offline.
  • Search for created way points/POIs by name.

• Pan/zoom/locate yourself

• Record GPS tracks

  • Supports both built in GPS and BlueTooth

• View tracks overlay

  • Bird’s eye overview for your tracks.

• Live track animation

• Track analytics/stats

  • Distance covered
  • Avg speed
  • Max speed
  • Time taken
  • Pace (time taken to cover a mile/km)
  • Calories burned
  • Vertical ascent/descent

• Export tracks in GPX format to SDCard.

  • Viewable on Google earth.

Milestones

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Screenshots

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Above: Distance Bearing Tool
Uploaded: 10/8/10

Above: Map Screen
Uploaded: 10/8/10

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