Skobbler Introduces GPS Navigation and Maps App for Android
The Berlin-based software company skobbler introduces GPS Navigation & Maps for Android. Available starting today, Skobbler’s Android app is the first on-and offline-enabled mapping and navigation app for Android smartphones and tablets. Skobblertypisch is offered at a competitive price. For only one euro customers receive the full global online functionality and a whole country of choice for offline installation, which it is available without an Internet connection. Owners of the full version can expand additional areas offline at any time. OpenStreetMap maps used in the app can be stored locally on the smartphone or deleted and available online after purchase – depending on requirements and storage capacity of the mobile device.
The features of GPS Navigation & Maps at a glance:
– Fully-fledged navigation with voice guidance for car navigation (turn-by-turn)
– Fully interactive OpenStreetMap Map
– A single card with worldwide coverage
– Hybrid: Full functionality with and (after installation) without internet connection (online + offline)
– Installability whole countries included the City Maps (WiFi recommended)
– super fast reloading the map – zoom, rotate, etc. without reloading
– Continuous free map updates
– Powerful card technology (NGx)
– route display (cars, pedestrians)
– Convenient route options for adequate routing (fastest, shortest, most efficient route )
– Multiple map styles (day, night, outdoor) for the best possible user experience in any situation
– 2D and 3D view (with navigation)
– Various search options (address search, category search, proximity search)
– IdeaLog for feedback to the developers
– Comfortable favorites lists
– Optional Synchronization of favorites with the web portal maps.skobbler.com
– “avoid highway” function
– “Avoid toll roads” function
– App works in portrait and landscape format
– Full compatibility with smart phones and tablets
– one land card with purchase already included
“Our users can rejoice: Instead of having to fumble around with annoying hundreds of individual maps, GPS Navigation & Maps offers the whole world as a map and navigation from within an app,” said Marcus Thiel King of skobbler.
Photos: Skobbler
About the Author: Eric Gakstatter
Eric Gakstatter has been involved in the GPS/GNSS industry for more than 20 years. For 10 years, he held several product management positions in the GPS/GNSS industry, managing the development of several medium- and high-precision GNSS products along with associated data-collection and post-processing software. Since 2000, he's been a power user of GPS/GNSS technology as well as consulted with capital management companies; federal, state and local government agencies; and private companies on the application and/or development of GPS technology. Since 2006, he's been a contributor to GPS World magazine, serving as editor of the monthly Survey Scene newsletter until 2015, and as editor of Geospatial Solutions monthly newsletter for GPS World's sister site Geospatial Solutions, which focuses on GIS and geospatial technologies.
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