Chris Gilmer , Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Spot connects the worldwide GPS positioning with the access to satellite maps. A huge amount of mapping services like: street level maps (e.g. Google maps), geological surveys, altitude profiles, weather and environmental monitoring maps, and much more of them are available on the internet free of charge.

GIS Framework allows the integration of Spot into an existing company GIS.

Using Moving Map Navigation, the map centeres current position and will therefore move with you. This makes it easy for you to navigate visually in your environment. You can either do that with street level maps or in remote areas with maps composed of satellite photos.

Spot includes an integrated Google maps layer which can be used in combination with other WMS layers or just on its own.

You can use Spot’s routing feature for navigation as well. It will guide you to a waypoint and give you information on the distance, estimate time of arrival and so on.

Spot can be used for a wide range of outdoor activities. You can add waypoints/POIs (Point of Interest) to mark you favorite locations or download them from the internet. They will be visualized on the map of your device and simplifies orientation wherever you are.

Spot can perfectly be used for Field Naviation with your Blackberry, you do not need any additional hardware. ou can get field maps from your company GIS or from public map services. The waypoint management system allows you to add additional data in the field.