Global Positioning System (GPS)

PathAway navigation system uses satellite signals to determine your exact location, speed and direction of travel. PathAway will work with most handheld GPS units, Palm Add-on GPS devices, Compact Flash GPS, and Bluetooth GPS.

Supports any NMEA0183 v2.0 or higher compatible GPS device (this encompases the majority of GPS devices on the market).
Delorme Earthmate™, and Tripmate™ proprietary protocols are also supported.

GPS is not required to use the software. Pathaway's powerful hi-res mapping engine allows you to capture and view all your maps.

Navigation

- GPS support for most devices.
- Display current location, elevation, speed, and direction.
- Moving map centers on your current location.
- Record your track for later back-tracking, or reviewing the journey.
- Proximity notification displays points you are approaching, their distance away, and position relative to your direction of travel.

Maps

- Prepare your own maps for use in PathAway, using the free Map Manager application. Scan your paper maps or get digital maps from CD ROM software, or web sites.
- Multi-resolution color support. (Grayscale, 256 color, and new high definition color).
- Zoom in-out between maps of different resolution.
- Scroll by dragging map with the stylus.
- Map calibration. Once maps have been transferred to the device, you can fine-tune the map coordinates by matching the positions of known points on the maps, with the actual position displayed by the map.

Points

- Capture and mark unlimited number of points and locations.
- Use long names and descriptions for easy recognition.
- Apply an icon to each point. Even create your own icons using PathAway Tools for Windows.
- Goto points on the map, or points along a track.

Routes

- Create routes by simply clicking points on a map, or by adding points from your Points database.
- Choose a recorded track to follow.
- Follow routes either forward or reverse (back-track). Great for finding your way home.
- Simulate (play) your route travel before you go.
- Determine your total distance and estimated travel time to destination. Time can be estimated by current speed, average speed, or a custom speed setting.

Tracks

- PathAway can record your location at regular intervals as you travel with a GPS.
- The track line is displayed on the map as you travel.
- You can then reuse the track to follow at a later time.
- Time and distance are recorded in the track log, useful for accurate travel planning.
- All track points can be added to your points database.

Screen Views

- Full Screen Map View
- Route View
- Tracking View
- Proximity View
- Points View

User Interface

- Preferences for distance and elevation units, course display, time estimation, proximity notification, map display detail, and track recording precision.
- Use of Palm "hard" keys for easily adding points, scrolling maps, changing views, connecting/disconnecting to GPS.

Data Management (on Palm OS)

- Edit point, route, and track databases including: changing order, renaming, joining, duplicating, and copying records between databases.
- Beam databases to others.

Windows PC-based Management

PathAway Tools - Map Manager

- For preparing maps to use on the device. You just need to specify the longitude and latitude coordinates of each map.

PathAway Tools - Icon Manager

- For adding icons for points and vehicles to be used on the device. Create your own using a bitmap editor, and add them to your icons database.

PathAway Tools - Database Import/Export

- Import/export Points, routes, and track databases. transfer between standard comma-delimited files. (currently available in command prompt and Windows DLL only)