AFTrack is the display for your navigation and activates the world of hiking, biking, sailing, geocaching or more for your phone. The program handles tracking with smart and fixed logging features. If needed it sends reports online or via SMS, it receives SMS position messages and show it as a waypoint. It exports tracks and waypoints. Uses maps online and offline and more.

Features

GPS and other input

– different gps sources: internal gps, internal with NMEA, bluetooth gps direct, USB gps, online gps over Wifi/3G, NMEA file
– read NMEA, GpsD json, Signal K json
– work as gps daemon (nmea or json, port 2947 only)
– share position (replaces standard gps provider)
– connection with AIS server (NMEA format)
– altitude correction (automatic or manual) and Kalman filter
– pressure usable for altitude (if available)
– pressure start altitude editable
– automatic correction over weather server (needs net connection)

Tracking

– collect track data
– show routes or tracks in up/down hill colors
– export tracks to GPX, KML, OVL, IGC format and send or upload it
– import route data – GPX, TCX or KML format
– import, export way points – GPX or KML format
– import areas from KML format
– use a kml.txt format to send exports direct via bluetooth
– design a route or an area on the map
– design a route using BRouter offline data, with Inland waterway
– design a route using wind information and polar data
– edit a route or an area on the map
– merge some routes
– copy way points to route
– get new way point from bearing, map or position
– add predefined way point collection to map
– revers routes
– Routing in a corridor
– off road routing along the line

Maps

– online maps – pool editable, tile or WMS based
– offline maps – OSZ format build by MobileAtlasCreator
– offline maps – SQLite formats mbtiles and sqlitedb build by MobileAtlasCreator and/or Maperitive
– offline maps – BSB3 format for marine navigation
– offline maps – NV digital for marine navigation
– offline maps – mapsforge vector format – with extra xml layouts usable (V4)
– offline maps – mph/mpr format
– use offline maps from jpg, png or bmp files
– use offline maps with calibration file map, gmi, kml, kal, cal, pwm, tfw or jpr format
– make own calibration for a bitmap
– seamless maps display when using OSZ or SQLite tile container
– map selector to have quick access to maps
– map scan for a defined folder and sub folder
– map overlays – online pool editable
– map offline overlays – in mbtiles ‘overlay’ format
– scaling charts 2x/4x

View

– wind indicator for the map or position center
– display depth – if available
– display AIS information – if available
– display ADS-B (air plane) information – if available
– vario display
– vario sound
– alarm on reached POIs
– set anchor alarm for the current position
– set anchor alarm for a way point that receives positions from a gps tracker
– save and restore settings
– send waypoint or anchor alarm to Android Wear

Online

– Online position sending for live tracking
– Online receive way point positions from a GpsGate server
– works as SMS provider (needs a plugin)
– short message position sending
– short message position receiving
– short message from GPS tracker TK102, TK102-2, TK102 clones, TK-Star, DNT, ELRO, GEODOG, Benefon ESC, Benefon Trackkeeper NT, WondeProud spt10, Tracker from tracker.fi, Wo-ist-Lilly or SmartcomGps
– text storage for short messages e.g. for Xexun tracker
– set position from short message
– send sms note to other AFTrack instance and get position back
– collect short messages to a track, single and multi-tracking
– getting way point positions from a GpsGate server

Notice: the SMS features are removed by Google.

Please send remarks to afischer@dbserv.de

The lite version differences

– no automatic position sending
– no template sending via short message
– loads only three offline maps in automatic mode
– has a start screen
– has inside advertising
– limited export
– no multi track colors