Guidebee Navigator will be avaiable for downloading soon

Today, I nearly finished my own navigation software on Mobile device, I called it guidebee navigatior. I'll begin testing in the following month and hopefully will have a offically release before Christmas :-).


I started the hobby on GIS LBS application roughly 3 years ago, when I was still working for Motorola, I travelled to Plantataion ,FL and one of my coworker showed my one amazing navigation application Telnav on motorola iDEN phone, I was immediately impressed by the accuracy and turn by turn voice navigation. Telnav is an online application, it gets GIS data from its server, at that time, I was trying to find an standalone GPS application, I searched on ebay, and find Microsoft Travel and Streets 2006 and buy HP 4700 PDA, Microsoft's Pocket Street has been one of my favorite LBS mobile application, though it doesn't acutally provide turn by turn navigation.


When I returned China, I tried to find similar navigation application, there were some out there, but compared to Telnav or Pocket Street, the quality is so bad and I could bear them. I decided to write my own version of "Pocket Street". I have seen several version of my own pocket streets (some on window mobile with satellite map and some with MapInfo vector map). During the past 3 years ,of course in my spare time, I learned a lot on GIS and LBS and my "Pocket Streets" becomes better and better. Generally speaking it's now an online version of Microsoft pocket street plus much more.

1. Support world map, it doesn't restrict to any speicific region, if only you have network connection ,it will show the map where you are.
2. Multiple map type to choose from, Microsoft Bing map, Micrsoft Satellite Map, Nokia ovi map ,Yahoo map, OpenStreetMap or any custom map you like.
3. Internal GPS or bluetooth GPS support
4. Get my location ,it will first find your ISP assgin IP address location and if GPS device is avaiable it will show your currrent location.
5. GPS compass, it displays satellite signal, azmith ,speed meter etc.
6. Search include search by address, business name, local search, search by IP address, search by latitude,longitude pair.
7. Get Direction, multiple waypoint or search from current location.
8. Turn by turn voice navigation and rerouting if needed.
9. Favorite point of interest managment.
10. Microsoft MSN Messenger integrated etc

For more information about this application ,please visit http://www.mapdigit.com/