GPS Essentials

The most complete GPS tool available: Navigate, manage waypoints, tracks, routes, build your own dashboard from 45 widgets.

❧❧❧❧❧ Dashboard ❧❧❧❧❧
Shows navigation values such as: Accuracy, Altitude, Speed, Battery, Bearing, Climb, Course, Date, Declination, Distance, ETA, Latitude, Longitude, Max Speed, Min Speed, Actual Speed, True Speed, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonset, Moonrise, Moon Phase, Target, Time, TTG, Turn.

❧❧❧❧❧ Compass ❧❧❧❧❧
Show the orientation of the earth's magnetic field, shows an arbitrary tracking angle and the current target. Also a marine orienteering compass.

❧❧❧❧❧ Tracks ❧❧❧❧❧
Record tracks and view them on map. Export KML files and import into Google Maps, Google Earth and others.

❧❧❧❧❧ Routes ❧❧❧❧❧
Manage routes and view them on map. Import KML files from Google Maps, Google Earth and others. Create turn-by-turn instructions between waypoints.

❧❧❧❧❧ Camera ❧❧❧❧❧
A camera HUD (heads-up display) view to show your waypoints, take pictures and share them.

❧❧❧❧❧ Map ❧❧❧❧❧
A map to show your waypoints. Convert mail addresses of your contacts to waypoint so that they can be used within the app.

Supports Google Maps, MapQuest, OpenStreetMap and others.

Supports Google Maps v2: Indoor Maps, Traffic, Buildings, Satellite and Terrain layers and map rotation.

❧❧❧❧❧ Waypoints ❧❧❧❧❧
A list of all your waypoints with export and import (KML, KMZ, GPX and LOC format).

❧❧❧❧❧ Satellites ❧❧❧❧❧
A sky view of the current positions that shows satellites in view.

❧❧❧❧❧ Features ❧❧❧❧❧
Supported position formats: UTM, MGRS, OSGB, Degree-Minute-Second, Degree-Minute-Fractions, Decimal, Mils. Supports over 230 datums.

Waypoints, routes and tracks can be exported as KML or GPX files and sent by email or uploaded to Google Docs or DropBox.

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Purchase the "GPS Essentials Donation Plugin" on Android Market if you want to support development.

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WHAT ARE THE PERMISSIONS GOOD FOR?

✓ Coarse/Fine location: To access network locations and GPS
✓ Full internet access: To read map tiles, send bug reports
✓ Modify/delete USB storage contents: To write waypoints, tracks and images onto the SD card
✓ Read phone state and identity: To tag pictures with the device ID (can be switched off in settings)
✓ Take pictures and videos: Camera HUD, take pictures
✓ Your accounts: Required to run Google Maps v2

Rhett Hunter Weathers
It IS the Swiss Army Knife of GPS! Love it!
Rated: 5 Star

Geofferey Eakins
I really like the app, especially the dashboard which is my most used feature. In the last year you have added a light sensor, air pressure sensor & proximity sensor which is pretty sweet. I was wondering though if you could add a widget to display the bearing of magnetic compass in addition to the bearing widget that receives its data from gps. That would negate my need to switch from dashboard to compass. Even though the dash is displayed in compass it'd still be nice. Thank you for a great app!
Rated: 5 Star

Mark Shuford
Ah! I see why I thought there was a problem with the compass, GPS has to be on for you to do the declination. Seems that that could to some extent be done taking position from something other than GPS... But in practical use... yeah... you'd have GPS on... I mean that is the point of this app. ... ... Probably need to keep stuff persistent between exiting and reopening this for some stuff. Specifically I have to keep setting the reference for my sea level pressure altitude. (Since I can get this data programmatically it is a bit awkward to _have_ to use the thumb-wheels to set this.) ... ... You still need to have red to port and green to starboard, instead of the other way around. ... ... Might I suggest simply swiping to switch between dashboard and compass and map rather than having to wipe in a picker-menu to then click on one of them. Probably would want to let the user choose what to wipe between. ( Oh, and having a pair of binoculars for accessing the camera doesn't really make a lot of sense...) ... ... Otherwise this is a pretty neat app!
Rated: 5 Star

Cheryl Campbell
In believe able.
Rated: 5 Star

A Google User
Hoping for a fix. It keeps on crashing. Using zenfone 6, running android 5.0.
Rated: 1 Star

Paul Demushkin
relatively good app.
Rated: 3 Star