Open Source Atlas Creator
By admin on Dec 16, 2010 in mobile, open source
Mobile Atlas Creator (formerly known as TrekBuddy Atlas Creator) is an open source (GPL) program which creates offline atlases for GPS handhelds and cell phone applications like TrekBuddy, AndNav and other Android and WindowsCE based applications.
Additionally individual maps can be exported as one large PNG image with calibration MAP file for OziExplorer. As source for an offline atlas Mobile Atlas Creator can use a large number of different online maps such as OpenStreetMap, Google Maps,Microsoft/Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps and many more online map providers.
Features
- Create offline atlases for a large number of different (mobile) applications and GPS handhelds:
- AFTrack (Symbian)
- AlpineQuest (Android)
- AndNav (Android)
- Big Planet Tracks SQLite format (Android)
- CacheBox (Windows Mobile)
- Cachewolf
- Garmin Custom Map – KMZ (GPS handhelds)
- Glopus (Pocket PC)
- Google Earth
- GPS Sport Tracker
- Magellan RMP (GPS handhelds) & VantagePoint
- Maplorer (Windows CE/Windows Mobile)
- Maverick (Android)
- Mobile Trail Explorer (J2ME) – single tiles and MTECache file
- NaviComputer (Windows Mobile)
- OruxMaps (Android)
- OsmAnd
- OSMtracker (Windows Mobile/Pocket PC)
- OziExplorer (single 24bit PNG image with calibration (MAP) file
- PathAway (Windows Mobile)
- RMaps SQLite format (Android)
- [Nokia] Sports Tracker
- Touratech QV (Windows software, commercial)
- TrekBuddy (J2ME, Android)
- u-blox
- and others
- Prepare atlases consisting of multiple layers, different map sources map resolutions (zoom levels)…
- Save and load your favorite atlas compilation as profile to/from file
- Merge different layers using Drag & Drop
- Create map tiles using custom size and image format (PNG/JPG)
- Fast download of map tiles using simultaneous multithreaded download (number of threads configurable)
- Downloaded tiles are cached locally – avoids multiple downloads of same map tiles
- Download only updated tiles – use locally cached tiles otherwise
- Full support for network connections via HTTP proxy
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