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With some vacation time coming up, you sit on your comfortable couch and ponder some of the possible destinations. After some deliberation, you decide to head to the beautiful Trinity Alps in northern California for a hiking and camping adventure.
Now that you know where you're going, it's time to plan your trip, which means it's time to grab your iPad and open the Trimble Outdoors MyTopo Maps app.
Once you've launched the app, select the Search from the Tools button in the lower right hand corner.
From the Search bar, you can find over 10-million locations from around the world. Type in your destination and select it from the results. You can change the map types at any time by using the Layers button along the bottom bar.
Now it's time to drop waypoints. Simply drag and drop from the bottom bar to note locations such as your campsite, a trailhead, viewpoint or peak. Once you drop a point, you can edit the name and add any pertinent notes that you wish.
Once completed, it's time to save the trip and send it to the Trimble Outdoors Trip Cloud. Select My Trips in the upper-left corner. This screen will provide several options. You can view and edit the waypoints, delete the trip or fit the screen to the geographic extents of the trip. Tapping Edit will allow you to edit the trip name and add notes. Once the trip is ready, tap on Sync. This sends the trip to the Trip Cloud, which means...
...that whether you are on your iPad, TrimbleOutdoors.com or out on the trial using Trimble Outdoors Navigator on your iPhone or Android device, the trip's data will be there.
When you are out in the Trinity Alps, launch Navigator and select My Trips, then your pre-planned trip and finally Use as Guide. Your are all set to enjoy the wild and have a fantastic outdoor adventure.
For more a detailed tutorial of how to use Trimble Outdoors Navigator for accurate navigation while on the trail, click here.
You are out on the trail in the beautiful Trinity Alps, located within the Klamath National Forest in northern California. Surrounded by breathtaking scenery, you set up camp along Emerald Lake, one of the many alpine lakes in the area.
The next morning you embark on a hike to view many of these amazing lakes. You gather your gear and then launch the Trimble Outdoors Navigator app iPhone or Android device, which means that your trip is off to a great start. You mark your campsite with a waypoint and set off on your adventure.
After a great hike and some off-trail travel, you arrive at a snowfield above Mirror Lake and take in this awesome view:
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| Sliding your way to Mirror Lake |
But now it's time to head back to camp. But during the hike you got a little turned around and aren't sure of which way to go...
Thankfully, you read this blog post so you know that navigation to any point on your outdoor adventure is extremely simple with Trimble Outdoors Navigator.
There a few ways you can do this.
First, go to the Map screen to view your trip and tap on the "Camp" waypoint you marked earlier. Then tap on the blue arrow, select Goto Waypoint, which then sets the point as your destination. A straight-as-the-crow-flies line will be drawn on the Map screen from your current location (the blue dot) to your goto waypoint (Camp).
You can also select Goto from either the Map or the Compass screens. This will bring up a list of every point that has been marked on your trip and simply select the one that you want as your destination.
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| The Goto screen |
You're now ready to navigate. Go to the home screen and select Compass. You will see a compass directing you towards your camp, including the distance, bearing and your current position. Now it's simply a matter of conquering the alps between you and your campsite.
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| Now you're navigating like a pro |
Pretty soon, you'll have arrived. Now it's on to the next point on your journey. Happy trails!
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| Welcome back to camp |
Check out the the full trip to Emerald Lake, as assembled by Backpacker Magazine.
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You've got your boots on, your backpack is loaded with the essentials and your CamelBak is filled. You're almost ready to hit the trail...
No outdoor adventure is complete without the Trimble Outdoors Navigator app to chart your position using GPS technology, view topos and aerial maps, track stats, take geotagged photos and so much more.
While you can use Trimble Outdoors Navigator several ways in the field, let's walk through how this powerful tool can record an awesome, interactive trip report that you can showoff to your friends and family.
1) Upon launching the app, there are a number of ways to begin your trip. From either the Compass, Map or Stats screen, tap the Track button to begin the trip.
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| Select either TRACK or MARK |
2) You will be prompted to name and categorize the your trip. By default, the trip will be named with the activity and the date. There are 30 activities from which to choose plus a "General Navigation". Choosing the activity helps organize all your trips.
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| Naming your trip |
3) Your trip is now being recorded. While you move about, the app will track your path, as seen on the Map screen, and you can now mark waypoints or capture photos, video or audio tracks that are automatically geotagged to the location you took them. Simply tap the Mark button and then select the desired point type. Selecting Photo, Video or Audio will immediately open your phone's built-in utility, and once you are finished, you will then name the point and you can see the point's latitude and longitude.
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| Selecting your point type |
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| A trip with many waypoints |
4) While your trip is in progress, the app tracks 17 different outdoor stats, including speed, elevation change pace and more. To view, simply select the Stats button from the home page, which displays seven of the stats. To change which are displayed, just tap on any of the white boxes and select the desired stat.
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| Your Stats |
5) When you have finished your trip, go to the home screen and tap the red STOP button. After that, you'll have the option to share the trip with Facebook friends, and the trip will automatically be synchronized to your Trimble Outdoors account. All previous trips will be stored under the My Trips tab.
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| View your previous adventures |
You can also write a more complete trip report and add more photos and videos by viewing your trip report at trimbleoutdoors.com. Keep the trip private or share it with the trimbleoutdoors.com community. Learn more about all of the amazing features of Trimble Outdoors Navigator now.
We are excited to launch MYTOPO MAPS BETA, a tablet app designed specifically for the
Kindle Fire. View thousands of detailed topo maps and aerial photos to
plan your next outdoor adventure. This app is FREE to download from the
Amazon AppStore.
APP FEATURES
 Search for more than 10-million locations. Find trails, peaks, lakes, rivers, ghost towns and more.
 View
five different map types: streets, hybrid, aerial, topo and terrain.
Access more than 68,000 topo maps in U.S. and Canada that are seamlessly
stitched together for fast and easy viewing. Topos scales are 1:24K in
the Lower 48, 1:63K in Alaska and 1:50K in Canada.
Use the ruler tool to measure the distance between two points.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD
Hit the Apps tab from the Kindle Fire homescreen. Select the Store
button in the upper right corner. Search for MYTOPO MAPS. Download the free app.
COMING SOON
This is our inital beta release for the Kindle Fire. Watch for free updates coming soon, including these trip planning features.
* Drop waypoints on to the map. Name them and add descriptions.
* Save trips to the Trimble Outdoors Trip Cloud.
* Send pre-planned trips to your mobile phone or GPS unit.
APP FEEDBACK
This is an open beta release, so please tell us what features you want.
What tools will help you plan backcountry and offroad adventures?
Provide feedback, talk with the developers and vote on new features.
Just click the INFO button within the app and hit BETA FEEDBACK. Thanks!
Trimble Outdoors Navigator has a wealth of powerful tools and features at your disposal, making it the premier outdoor navigation app for iPhone and Android.
Two of the features—Active Trip and Guide Trip—could be a source of confusion for some users, so let’s examine them in greater detail.
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| An Active Trip |
Active Trip simply refers to the current trip that’s in progress. To start a trip, just tap the “Track” button located on the lower center of the screen, or tap “Mark” to lay down a starting waypoint or collecting a photo. You’ll see the track indication turn from a red “Off” indicator to a green “On” and the app will then be tracking your movements, allow you to drop waypoints or capture geo-tagged photos and videos. To end a trip, go to the main screen and click the "Stop" button.
Once a trip is saved, it will become available for subsequent viewing and use under the Guide Trips or My Trips section of the app.
Guide Trip: Think of a guide trip as an outdoor guide book that you wrote yourself. Any saved trip taken with Trimble Outdoors Navigator can be used, as well as any that are planned on TrimbleOutdoors.com or through our iPad app, Trimble Outdoors MyTopo Maps. In addition, any trip shared by the Trimble Outdoors community or Pro Trip purchased in the app can be use as a Guide Trip.
After clicking on Guide Trip, click open to see a list of all available trips. You'll see the list of all your trips. Select the trip you'd like to use. You're then brought to the Trip Details screen, where you can view the information and examine the map and collected media.
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| A saved trip that can be used as a guide |
There are then two options to proceed. First, you can Continue the trip, which will resume the trip from the last recorded points. The other is Use as Guide. This will take all of the info--path, waypoints etc--from that trip and overlay them onto the MAP screen.
The MAP screen lets you view one active trip and one guide trip at a time.
These are just two of many awesome and powerful navigation and mapping tools at your disposal in the app. Learn more about Trimble Outdoors Navigator here.
Last week's exciting release of two new outdoors apps may leave
you wondering what the difference is between them and how they work
together.
While there are certain functions that both apps perform,
the difference is this: Trimble Outdoors Navigator is designed to be your
navigation, stat tracking and media collection app while in the field or on the trail, and
Trimble Outdoors MyTopo Maps is a trip planning app for before you go out there.
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Let’s examine each in more detail:
MyTopo Maps is designed for your iPad and takes full
advantage of the device’s large HD touchscreen. You can view stunning topo,
aerial, terrain, street and hybrid maps, mark waypoints for the places along
the trail you want to see and search a database of over 10-million locations
from around the world. With the awesome Smart Paste feature, you can easily
import up to 50 coordinates and have them instantly mapped.
Once you've planned your adventure, it is automatically and
wirelessly synced to the Trimble Trip Cloud, which means than once you pick up
your iPhone or Android device and launch the Trimble Outdoors Navigator app,
all the trip details you planned out will be there.
While on the trail, Trimble Outdoors Navigator tracks your location with GPS
precision on five maps types. You can navigate to the waypoints you pre-planned
or add more while on the trail or in the backcountry. All photos, videos and audio captured on the
trail are automatically geo-tagged and marked on your map, and the app also
tracks 14 trail statistics. Trimble Outdoors Navigator does everything a traditional handheld GPS does, and more.
After you’ve completed your trip, trips are automatically saved
to the Trip Cloud so you can access it through MyTopo Maps or
TrimbleOutdoors.com later.
Together, these apps and the powerful trip editing tools on
TrimbleOutdoors.com provide a full-featured and complete resource for the
outdoor enthusiast from start to finish and beyond.
Get ready to explore like never before. We’re thrilled to announce to two new apps that will surely become valuable parts of your outdoor adventures.
Trimble Outdoors Navigator, available on iPhone and Android devices, is the perfect companion for your hiking, camping or ATV and offroading trips. You can view your location on more than 68,000 topo maps in US and Canada, as well as aerial, terrain, street and hybrid maps. As you move along the trail, you can mark waypoints, capture photos and video and collect 10+ trail stats to compile a complete trip report that you can then share with your friends on Facebook, YouTube or TrimbleOutdoors.com. Trimble Outdoors Navigator works using the GPS chip in your phone, so it works even in the most remote locations. This app is available for FREE for a limited time. Download now.
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| Trimble Outdoors Navigator (Android & iPhone) |
But before you ever step foot on the trail or drive on a remote forest road, you will want to have your trip all planned out, and that is where Trimble Outdoors MyTopo Maps comes in. MyTopo Maps is an outdoors trip planning app for your iPad that takes full advantage of the device’s large HD screen. You can search from a database of over 10-million locations worldwide and view those maps in topo, aerial, terrain, street and hybrid formats. Mark, name and add details to waypoints you wish to cover during your trip, and easily import up to 50 coordinates from the web for automatic mapping. This app is available for FREE for a limited time. Download now.
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| Trimble Outdoors MyTopo Maps (iPad) |
But how can you transfer any planned trip from MyTopo Maps to Trimble Outdoors Navigator, or view a completed trip in Navigator on your iPad?
Enter the Trimble Outdoors Trip Cloud.
Any trips planned, taken or edited on either app or on TrimbleOutdoors.com is automatically and wirelessly synced to your Trimble Outdoors account and are instantly available on any device.
That’s not all. Trimble Outdoors is excited to become the exclusive mobile developer for MyTopo’s best-in-class topographic maps. The quality and accuracy of MyTopo’s topographic and aerial photo maps are unmatched in the industry and the only place to get them on your mobile device is through the Trimble Outdoors Network of apps.
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