User Guide in PDF - BackCountry Navigator
User Guide in PDF - BackCountry Navigator
User Guide
Mobile Map Soft are for Outdoor Recreation
Screens
Home screen
Men
Place
Displa s Find a Place screen
Maps
Displa s the Map Menu
T ip Da a
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Find a Place
Search and center (if found) the map on a specific location.
Map
Go back to map view
Compa
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Displa list of nearest wa points or tracks (on current trip file)
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Displa Trip Computer
GPS Satellite ie
Displa GPS stats and available satellites
Map
P e ie ing map
To p e ie /di pla map f om a map o ce:
Toggling map p e ie
To enable o di able map p e ie :
Using histor
Click on the places ou have searched for in the past to center the map on it. BC Nav saves succesful searches
locall so ou can use it even without an internet connection.
Do nloading and Deleting maps
Do nloading and deleting map tiles can be done ith the Map Toolbar. To access it:
To ie info ma ion abo o cancel he do nload, click on he BC Na map do nload en in he no ifica ion
1. Di able P e ie f om he Map Con ol Panel o onl o ed map ile a e di pla ed ( ee Toggling map
p e ie abo e)
5. Confirm cleanup
So if ou download map tiles from Open C cle Map for, sa , Camas, Washington; to displa those map tiles, ou
use Open C cle Map as map source and ou center the map (using Find a Place) on Camas, Washington.
Navigation
GPS is not turned on by default. You have to turn it on when you need it, i.e., when using M Location
(center) and when recording a track.
BackCountry Navigator onl uses your device's GPS to identify your position. It does not use cell
towers or WiFi to determine your location. Hence, acquiring your location will only work outdoors.
Another downside of solely using GPS for determining your location is that it quickly consumes battery
power. To circumvent this, you can turn off the GPS by clicking on Stop using GPS (saves power)
button from the Location menu.
1. Go to Location menu
2. Click on M Location (center)
3. Enable your device s GPS when prompted
“Acquiring…” means the app is still trying to get a fix. When the app acquires a fix, your position and bearing will
be displayed using a pink arrowhead.
Auto-center will be enabled once BC Nav acquires a fix. It will be disabled when you drag the map
around when GPS is disabled.
Trips
In BC Na , ip a e file he e o oe o ack and a poin . Befo e o a c ea ing a poin o
eco ding ack , o need o ha e an ac i e ip file. To ha e an ac i e ip file, c ea e a ne one o load an
e i ing one.
1. Go o Menu
2. Click Trip Data
3. Click Create Ne (Empt ) Trip File
4. Gi e he ip a name and click OK
1. Go o Menu
2. Click Trip Data
3. Click Load E isting Trip
4. Click on a ip file f om he li
5. Click Choose this trip
Creating/Selecting wa points
There are two ways to create/select waypoints:
To select a waypoint:
1. Go to Menu
2. Click on Settings
3. Check Long Click on Map under Display Options
To create a waypoint:
To select a waypoint:
Click on Pa e T ack Reco ding o pa e and S op T ack Reco ding o op he eco ding.
1. Go o Screen-changer
2. Click on S a
Tasks
1. Acce Screen-changer
2. Click Li
Thi di la a li f a i a a ged b di a ce ( ea e fi ).
Y ca al ea ch a i a d ack b i ga e i he ea ch b .
Edi
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Edit
Edit the selected waypoint s:
Name
Description
Coordinates
Elevation
Symbol
Goto
Displays a straight line between your current location and the Gotoed waypoint. Also shows the distance and bearing
during Goto in the Trip Computer.
Center
Center the map on the selected waypoint
Delete
Delete the selected waypoint
1. Go to Menu
2. Click Trip Data
3. Click Sho Track s in Trip: tripname
Clicking on a track from the list lets you do the following:
1. Go to Men
2. Click on Trip Data
3. Click on Share
4. Click The Internet
5. Login using your EveryTrail account or signup if you don t have one
6. Input information about your trip (name, type, story, and tips)
7. Click Sa e
8. Upload the trip
1. Go to Men
2. Click on Trip Data
3. Click on Share
4. Click A GPX File
5. Type a name for the GPX file
6. Click OK
Imported GPX files can be found on your storage path under the directory / oo - o age-
pa h/bcna /o
1. Go to Menu
2. Click on Trip Da a
3. Click on Impor GPX or KML
4. Locate the file to import
5. Choose an existing trip or create a new one to hold the data to import
6. Click on S ar Impor
Check Allow automatic updating if you don't like to do the above manually everytime an update is available
Reinstall BackCountr Navigator without repurchasing
If ou purchased BackCountr Navigator PRO, it will be tied to our Google Account and can be installed an unlimited
amount of times on an device. If ou lost our BC Nav PRO, perhaps during an upgrade or perhaps ou lost or
damaged our phone and ou have a new one, ou can reinstall it with no charge b simpl visiting M Apps on the
Android Market (Menu > M Apps)
If ou are being asked to purchase the app ou might be using a different account than the one ou were using at the
time ou made our purchase.
For more information about this topic visit the original article from Google here