TMJ-Mobile User Guide

TMJ-Mobile supports full touch-screen control of all functions. The screen has several hidden 'virtual' buttons around its edge, whose locations should quickly become familiar. Some buttons vary depending which screen is being displayed, but the four main buttons are the same on all: SCREEN (top-left corner) is used to select the current screen. MENU (bottom-left corner) brings up the Main Menu (same as the SELECT1 key). CONTEXT-MENU (bottom-right corner) brings up the current screen's context menu (same as the SELECT2 key). SHORTCUT-MENU (bottom-centre) displays the standard shortcut menu. By keeping a finger pressed on any button, after a couple of seconds all the other available buttons will become highlighted so their location can be noted. Some screens also support dragging, eg panning the map and scrolling through menus and lists. Other functions are as follows:

• MENUS: To Close a Menu tap its title bar (tapping the left side will go back to the previous menu, the right side will close all menus). Multi-value Menu Selections: tap the item to move forward one step at a time, drag the item left/right to scroll in larger steps. Checkbox Menu Items: tap the item to tick/untick.

•  TEXT PAGE: Drag the view left/right to switch sub-page. Drag up/down on the TRACK (I/II) pages to change track section. Sub-page can also be changed by tapping the left or right half of the screen.

• WAYPOINTS PAGE: Drag left/right to change waypoint group. Drag up/down to scroll list. Tap to highlight a waypoint. Tap the waypoint again to Select/De-Select it.

• ROUTE PAGE: Drag the list up/down to scroll it. Drag the map up/down to quickly scroll the current point. Tap a list item to highlight it. Tap the item again to Activate/De-Activate that point. When editing a point (Context Menu/Edit Point Location): Drag the map to move the point, Tap the List to stop editing.

• PLAN & MAP PAGEs: Drag the map around to pan/scroll. Use the (•) button (Top-centre) to toggle Auto-Pan on/off.

• NAVIGATION PAGE: Drag up/down to alter the view perspective. Drag left/right to rotate the view (when Auto-Pan is off)

• GAUGES PAGE: Drag left/right to cycle through the individual gauges. Drag up/down to cycle the multi-page gauges.

• VISUALISATION PAGE: Use the MODE button (Middle-left) to change viewing mode. When in PAN mode: drag to pan the view. When in ROTATE mode: drag up/down to alter perspective, drag left/right to rotate. When in WALK mode: drag up/down to move forward/backwards, drag left/right to turn.

• GRAPH PAGE: Drag left/right to pan the graph. Drag up/down to change y-axis.

NOTE: The touchscreen functions have been designed and tested on a Nokia 5800 phone. This is quite a powerful model, so usage/responsiveness on older touch-screen phones may vary.

If the buttons and menus are too small to be easily selected with a finger tap, the Menu/Settings/Other Settings/Menu Font Size option can be used to increase the size of the menu options and buttons.

Since BlackBerry handsets use a different menu system from 'normal' phones, operation of TMJ-Mobile works slightly differently. The BlackBerry MENU button brings up the BlackBerry Menu in the usual way (in the BlackBerry style), but further menu screens are then displayed using the TMJ-Mobile menu system, which provide Check-Boxes, Selection Lists and other items not available in the standard BlackBerry menu. Also, the BlackBerry BACK button is mapped to the [Select2] key, allowing quick access to the TMJ Context Menu. This is slightly unconventional (compared with other BlackBerry apps), but works quite well once you get used to it. Other key mappings are as follows:

• [P] and [DEL] are directly mapped to the [Select1] and [Select2] functions. (These are not really needed now that the MENU and BACK keys are also mapped to these functions, but are preserved for consistency with previous versions of TMJ)

• Trackball = Up/Down/Left/Right/Fire

• [*], [#] and [0]-[9] work the same as other phones

• On Full QWERTY Keypad BlackBerrys (8300, 8800, 8900, Curve and Bold series) the I/M/J/L/K keys are also mapped to Up/Down/Left/Right/Fire which is occasionally useful for precise control of the view panning (sometimes difficult with the trackball alone). Further mappings for recent handsets are: B=BackLight On/Off, N=Toggle Night Colours, Space=Shortcut Menu, [Enter]=Add New Waypoint at Current Location, $=Select Nearest Waypoint, V=Start Slideshow, U=Enable Web Upload, O=Update 'Temporary Location' Waypoint (see later). 

Text Information Page [1]

Shows text readouts of various parameters and statistics. Press [left/right] or [Select2] to switch between subpages:

• POSITION: Latitude, Longitude, Secondary Coordinate (if selected in Unit Settings), Altitude, Satellites in Use*, HDOP/VDOP (Horizontal/Vertical Dilution of Precision - a measure of the accuracy of the GPS fix, a smaller value is better)*, Time, Date.

• NAVIGATION: Current Speed, Current Bearing, Current Vertical Speed, Gradient, Kinetic Energy, Stopwatch Time, Stopwatch Average Speed, Stopwatch Trip Distance, Sun Altitude, Sun Azimuth.

• WAYPOINT: Selected Waypoint Name, Distance to Selected Waypoint, Bearing to Selected Waypoint, Gradient to Waypoint, Height to Waypoint, Estimated Time of Arrival at Selected Waypoint (as the crow flies, current speed), Estimated Time to Reach Selected Waypoint (as the crow flies, current speed), Heading to Waypoint (angle to waypoint relative to current direction, to the left or right), Velocity Made Good (VMG) to Waypoint (gives your current speed relative to the waypoint, taking your current direction into account), ETA (based on VMG), Estimated Time to Reach Waypoint (based on VMG)

• ROUTE: Length of Route, Remaining Distance, Distance to Next Routepoint, Bearing to Next Routepoint, Gradient to Next Routepoint, Height to Next Routepoint, Total Ascent of Route or Ascent Remaining (when route is active), Total Descent of Route or Descent Remaining (when route is active), Estimated Time of Arrival at Route Destination*, Estimated Time to Reach Route Destination*.

• TRACK (1): Section being displayed (press [up/down] to view other track sections), Section Distance, Section Average Speed, Section Maximum Speed, Min/Max Gradient in Section, Min/Max Altitude in Section, Section Start/End Times, Section Duration, Number of Points in Section.

• TRACK (2): Section being displayed (press [up/down] to view other track sections), Amount of Calories Burnt if Walking this Section**, Amount of Calories burnt if Running**, Amount of Calories Burnt if Cycling**, Total Ascent in Section, Total Descent in Section, Area Enclosed by Section***, Distance Travelled above Target Speed, Section Duration, Duration Spent above Target Speed.

• GENERAL: Number of Waypoints/Live Users (only shown when Web Uploading is enabled), Web Packets Sent/Received/Failed, Web Bytes Sent (this session), Web Bytes Received (this session), Web Bytes Sent (Total), Web Bytes Received (Total), Total Distance Recorded, Total Phone Memory Available to TMJ-Mobile, Phone Memory Free, Phone Memory Used by TMJ-Mobile, GPS Device Status (also shows Total Data Received from Bluetooth GPS Device or Last Signal Time received from Internal GPS Device).

• GPS/WEB: Last RMC NMEA Sentence Received from GPS Device*, Last GGA NMEA Sentence Received from GPS Device*, Last Web Response received from TrackMyJourney website.

• SITUATION: Extra large text to see at a glance Speed, Bearing, Time.

• STOPWATCH: Extra large text to see at a glance Stopwatch Time, Stopwatch Distance, Stopwatch Average Speed.

NOTE: If an item is surrounded by curly brackets {} then the value shown is the last-known 'good' value, eg if the GPS device loses its fix or is switched off, etc.

* For phones using an internal GPS this information is not always available.

** Calories are calculated using the formula: kcal = MET * weight(kg) * time(hrs), where MET is the 'average' metabolic rate (per kg) burned when performing the associated activity at the calculated speed. (So running faster has a higher MET value, and hence higher calorie burn per second).

*** Area is calculated assuming the Earth to be a perfect sphere, is only accurate for smallish areas and is intended as a guide only. The calculation is only valid for non-intersecting track sections (where the track doesn't cross over itself); for each section the start and end points are joined to form a polygon, and the area calculated using this formula.

Waypoints Page [2]

Shows a list of Waypoints, either downloaded from the TrackMyJourney website or entered manually into the phone, along with any 'Live' users who are linked to your TMJ account. Each Waypoint has a Name, Location (Latitude/Longitude), Type (eg Station, Hospital, School, Pub, etc) and Group.

The Waypoints are displayed in separate tabs for each Waypoint Group, which allows similar waypoints to be arranged into categories. For example you might have groups such as 'Work Related', 'France Holiday', 'General', 'Temporary', etc. Group names can be changed via your Account/SETTINGS page on the website.

• To synchronise the list with your TrackMyJourney account use the Main Menu>Web>Waypoint Synchronisation functions. Note that it can be easier to add/edit Waypoints using the website and then synchronise them to the phone rather than adding them manually on the phone.

• Initially the list is sorted by distance from the current location. Press [2] a second time to sort the list alphabetically.

• Use the [up/down] keys to scroll through the list, and the [left/right] keys to select the currently displayed waypoint group.

• Select/Deselect a Waypoint with the [fire] key. The selected waypoint is displayed in green and is then highlighted on other pages (Plan, Gauges, Map etc)

• Press [*] to switch to the Map page and centre it on the selected waypoint.

• Press [#] to search for a waypoint by name. This will enable a ninth group 'Search Results', displaying the results. If a Vector Map is currently loaded on the Plan, Navigation or Visualisation pages, then the search will also include any Streets/Point of Interest from the map.

Waypoints Context-Sensitive Menu

1. New Waypoint: Current Location: prompts for a Waypoint type and creates a new Waypoint at the current location. When entering the Waypoint Name, if it contains multiple lines then the first line will be stored as the Name and all remaining lines stored in the Description field.

2. New Waypoint: Enter Coords: prompts for a Waypoint type, Latitude and Longitude for creating a new Waypoint.

3. Append to Route: adds the current waypoint location to the end of the route.

4. Navigate to (online): attempts to download from the internet a route to the selected waypoint from the current location, using the routing method selected in the current Activity Profile (Driving, Cycling, Walking, etc).
   If another waypoint is currently active, then another option will appear in the list 'Navigate to [active waypoint] (online)' which will attempt to download a route from the selected waypoint to the active one.

5. Send via SMS: sends the current waypoint location via text message

6. View Description/Launch Waypoint Website/View Photo/Play Audio File: This item varies depending on the content of the waypoint description. Descriptions that have no whitespace and begin with http:// are interpreted as a URL and can be opened up in the phones web browser (if supported by the phone). Descriptions for 'Geotagged Audio' and 'Geotagged Photo' waypoints that begin with file:// are interpreted as an audio or image file stored on the phones memory card and can be played back directly using this function (again, if the phone supports it).

7. Show On Plan/Map: Switches to the Plan [4] or Map [6] screen (depending which screen was last used) and jumps to the Waypoint location.

8. View Coordinates: Displays the coordinates of the waypoint in various coordinate systems (eg UK National Grid, UTM, etc). Also gives Sunrise, Sunset and Sun Transit times at the selected location.

9. Related Websites: leads to a submenu where various online website can be used to find out further information related to the waypoints location.

10. Edit Waypoint: displays a further menu for editing the waypoint.

11. Delete Waypoint: deletes the current waypoint. Note that this won't delete it from your TrackMyJourney account so it will reappear next time the waypoints are syncronised unless you also delete it from your account itself.

12. Find Place (Online): leads to a submenu to search online for a point-of-interest, street, place, etc. Geocoding and Routing services are provided by CloudMade.

Route Page [3]

Shows the current Route as a list of route points and a plan view.

• Use [up]/[down] to scroll up and down the list of routepoints. Use [left]/[right] to scroll a page at a time. The current routepoint is centred on the plan.

• Use [*]/[#] to zoom in/out.

• Select/Deselect a Routepoint with the [fire] key. The selected Routepoint is displayed in red and also highlighted on other screens (Plan, Gauges and Map). When the selected Routepoint is reached, the next Routepoint automatically becomes the new selected point, and so on, until the end of the Route is reached.

• Pressing [3] a second time will select the Routepoint that is nearest to the current location (and in the direction of travel). This is a quick way to make the route 'live' without having to scroll through the list manually to find the next Routepoint.

Route Page Context-Sensitive Menu

1. Move Point Up In List: Move the current point up the Routepoint list. If the point is the first item in the route and Circular Route is enabled the point is moved to the end of the route.

2. Move Point Down In List: Move the current point down the routepoint list. If the point is the last item in the route and Circular Route is enabled the point is moved to the start of the route.

3. Edit Point Location: Switches to Edit mode. The cursor keys will now move the current point around. Press [FIRE] to end editing.

4. Start New Section: Sets whether the current Routepoint should force a new section (or lap) to be created in the recorded track when the point is reached. 

5. Delete Point: Deletes the current routepoint from the route.

6. Reverse Entire Route: Reverses the route so that it can be travelled in the opposite direction.

7. Circular Route: When enabled, the route is automatically restarted once the last point is reached. This allows,  for example, a running-track to be entered as the route. If one point in the route has the Start New Section marker selected, then each lap of the running track will be recorded as a new section. Various lap statistics (speed, time, etc) can then be analysed via the TRACK Information page [1] or via the website.

8. Clear Route: Clears the entire route (NOTE: This cannot be undone!)

9. Online Routing: leads to a submenu with options for calculating a route using CloudMade's online routing service.  Calculate Route generates a route from the first to the last routepoint in the current list (overwriting the existing route). If the current list only has one routepoint, then a route is calculated to that point from the current location (a quicker way to plan a route is via the Waypoints, Plan or Map Page context menu). Auto-Recalculate will automatically attempt to download a new route when deviating from the active route (Menu/Web/Enable Web needs to be set for this to work). Routing Method sets the type of routing used: Driving-Quickest, Driving-Shortest, Cycling or Walking.

10. View Options: Leads to a further submenu:

• Show Vector Map: show the vector map on the route plan.

• Track: Overlay the Track line onto the route plan.

• Split Vertically: Splits the view to show the List/Map side-by-side, rather than top/bottom. Useful for Landscape phone screens.

• Waypoint Names/Markers: options to display the Waypoints on the route plan.

Plan Page [4]

(Please note that the Plan Page can also display Vector Maps, as detailed later in the Vector Maps guide)

Shows a plan of the current track, location, waypoints and any 'live' users.

• Use [up/down/left/right] to pan the map

• Use [#] and [*] to zoom in and out.

• Pressing [4] a second time scales and pans the plan to fit the entire track, or centres it on the current location if the track is empty.

• [Fire] toggles AutoPan on/off, which automatically pans the plan to keep the current location in view. When AutoPan is turned on a disc is shown in the lower left corner.

Plan Context-Sensitive Menu (also applies to Map page)

1. Map Location / Highlighted Item > if a Waypoint or Vector Map Item is highlighted then this leads to a submenu giving various options related to the waypoint (eg Select Waypoint, View Description, Navigate to, Send via SMS, etc). If no Waypoint or Vector Item is highlighted then this leads to the Map Location submenu allowing a new Waypoint or Routepoint to be created at the current location or plan/map centre. Also:

   • Send via SMS: sends the current map location by text message, including a link to an online map of the location so that the person receiving can see where it is.

   • Set as Current Location: (Only displayed when the phone has no active GPS connection) Sets the 'Current Live' location to the selected point on the map. Useful if you are unable to attain a GPS fix, have Web/Enable Web activated and want to update your live location on the website for your friends to see where you are.

   • View Coordinates: Displays the coordinates of the point at the Plan Centre in various coordinate systems (eg UK National Grid, UTM, etc)

   • Related Websites: submenu for opening various websites in the phones browser to lookup information related to the map location. (eg, view an online map, view nearby photos via Panoramio, search nearby articles from Wikipedia, etc).

2. Go To Location > leads to a further submenu to jump to a specific location on the Plan:

   • Last GPS Position: jumps back to your last known location

   • Enter Coordinates: opens a form for entering Latitude and Longitude (and also Secondary Coordinates, if set, eg UK Grid Ref)

   • Waypoints: shows a complete list of your waypoints, by group, to quickly jump to a particular waypoint

   • Map Index: Streets and Map Index: POI: (only shown if Vector Maps are enabled) displays a complete gazetteer of nearby streets and POIs, ordered by type (eg Pubs, Restaurants, etc)

   • Search Map & Waypoints: Searches all Waypoint names (and also loaded Vector Map items, if enabled) for a text string. Results are displayed on the Waypoints/Search Results screen.

3. Measurement Ruler: Displays a ruler onscreen that can be scrolled around from the current map centre to measure distances/angles between points on the map/plan. Press [fire] to hide the ruler.

4. Sketching > (Touchscreen Phones Only) leads to a further submenu for sketching functions. This (experimental) function allows vector lines to be drawn directly onto the Plan and Map pages. The intention was for use as an OpenStreetMap mapping tool, for example for sketching the location of footpaths that may cross the current path. It can also be used for other purposes, eg to measure the length of a curved line on the map, or for quickly creating a short route. The sketches are stored as Lat/Lng Polylines and can be exported as GPX files for importing into JOSM (the Java OpenStreetMap editor). Note that it is NOT recommended to upload these GPX files to your OpenStreetMap account, as they are not actual GPS traces and could cause confusion. Testing has been done on a Nokia 5800, so performance on other touchscreen phones may vary. It is recommended to use a stylus for more accurate sketching. Menu options are:

   • Draw Sketch: enters sketching mode. A colour palette is displayed at the top of the screen with six presets - Black, White, Red, Yellow, Green and Blue. UNDO and DONE buttons are also displayed. Drag the stylus around the screen to draw a line. Touch the screen to add a Waypoint at that location.

   • Undo Last: Deletes the last-drawn line.

   • Clear All: Clears all sketches.

   • Status: Shows the total length of all sketch lines (and also length by colour). Can be useful for calculating the length of a non-straight path.

   • Convert/Append to Route: Converts the current sketch points to routepoints and appends them to the current route (screen [3]). The original sketch is then cleared.

   • Export to GPX: Exports the Sketch to a GPX file on the phones memory card. Each Colour is saved as a separate <trkseg> section.

5. Waypoint Options > leads to a further submenu:

   • Waypoint Names: toggles waypoint name display on the plan and map pages. NOTE: If waypoint names are not displayed, but waypoint markers are, then scrolling around the map will highlight the nearest waypoint to the centre of the map.

   • Waypoint Markers: toggles waypoint marker display on the plan, map and route pages.

   • Plain Markers: when selected the display will show plain crosses instead of the usual waypoint icons.

   • Large Icons: displays larger Waypoint icons in the plan and map pages. Useful for phones with a higher resolution screen.

   • Select Types > : displays a list of Waypoint types, each with a toggle button to display/hide that type from the plan.

   • Show All Types: resets the Types list to show All Types on the plan.

   • Invert Types: Inverts the currently displayed waypoint types (those that are currently shown are hidden, while those that are hidden are shown).

   • Select Active Groups: Sets which Waypoint Groups are active. If a group is inactive then any waypoints in that group will be completely hidden from all screens (including the Waypoints List and all Map/Plan pages).

6. View Options > leads to a further submenu:

   • Show Vector Map: Display the Vector Map (see section later on for more info)

   • Alternate Screen Layout: Displays the Loc/Wpt/Rte information as strips along the top of the screen, instead of displaying each one in its own corner box.

   • Show Crosshair: permanently shows a crosshair in the centre of the plan/map, useful when adding new Waypoints or Routepoints. When the crosshair is not shown a small one will appear when manually scrolling the map.

   • Thicker Lines: Uses a double-thickness line for the track and route guides. (Note: this may slow down the display on some phones).

   • Track: toggles the track on/off on the plan and map pages.

   • Route: toggles the route on/off on the plan and map pages.

   • Loc/Wpt/Rte Info: when enabled the current speed, bearing and track length are displayed at the top of the page. If a Waypoint is selected or a Route is active then further info is shown about these.

   • Lat/Long Grid: Toggles the Latitude/Longitude grid on and off. (Note that if the Vector Map is being displayed then the grid is automatically hidden)

   • Show Direction: when enabled a blue arrow is shown to highlight the current direction of travel. If a Waypoint is selected or Route active then similar Green and Red arrows are also shown.

   • Show Scale: displays a scale bar at the bottom of the screen, along with a (temporarily displayed) scale ratio readout (eg 1:25,000 etc). Note: In order to accurately calculate the on-screen plan/map scale the screen height needs to be measured and entered into the Menu/Settings/Other Settings/Screen Height.

   • Remove Clutter when Scrolling: when enabled then the text overlays, track, route and direction arrows will be hidden when scrolling, which can sometimes help to scroll to a precise location that might otherwise be hidden underneath the other layers.

   • Synchronise with Map Page: when enabled, on switching between the Plan and Map pages the centred location is preserved between the views.

7. AutoPan Options > leads to a submenu with further options:

   • Centred AutoPan: when AutoPan is in use (using the [Fire] key) the current location will be either be kept locked in the centre of the screen (with Centred AutoPan enabled) or allowed to move around within the central 75% or so of the screen.

   • Zoom with AutoPan: when selected, AutoPan will also control the plan scale to keep the Track, Route and/or Selected Waypoint/Routepoint in view (if these are enabled in the remaining three options). (This option is disabled if the Vector Map Options/Map Performance/BackBuffer setting is active)

   • Include Current Track Section: keeps the entire track on screen when AutoPan is on.

   • Include Remaining Route: keeps the remainder of the route on screen when AutoPan is on.

   • Include Selected Wpt/Rte: keeps the current Waypoint and/or Selected Routepoint on screen when AutoPan is on.

8. Vector Map Options: Leads to further options for configuring the Vector Map. See section later for further details.

9. Item Highlighting: If View/Waypoint Options/Waypoint Names are turned off, then scrolling around the plan will highlight and display the name of the waypoint nearest to the centre of the purple selection rectangle. The Plan Context menu will also then have an extra submenu for performing operations related to this Waypoint (eg: Select Waypoint, Send via SMS, Edit Waypoint, etc)

Navigation Page [5]

Vector Map Version with an Online Walking Route

Shows a 3D view of the track, centred at the current location.

• Use [up/down] to raise/lower the viewing angle.

• Use [left/right] to rotate the view (when AutoPan is off).

• Use [#]/[*] to zoom in/out of the view.

• [Fire] toggles AutoPan on/off, which automatically rotates the view to point in the current direction of travel. When AutoPan in turned on an Asterisk is shown in the lower left corner.

Navigation Page Context Menu

Similar to the context menu for the Plan page (see above) with a couple of new options:

• View/Show Altitude: which displays the height of the track on the 3D view.

• View/Auto-scale Altitude: Stretches or compresses the altitude to try and keep it in view. This is useful when in a very flat area to highlight any small changes in altitude, and also when in a very hilly area (eg skiing, or when flying) that might otherwise force the track off the top of the screen.

• View/Speed-Dependent Zooming: when enabled the view will zoom out as speed increases, then zoom back in again on slowing down.

Raster Map Page [6]

Offline Map sourced from OpenStreetMap
 

Offline Map manually scanned
from OS Explorer Map

Online Map from CloudMade

Shows the same information as the Plan page but overlaid over a raster map of the area. Maps can either be stored locally on the phones memory card (created using the TMJ-MapOrganiser), or downloaded live from the internet.

• Use [up/down/left/right] to pan the map.

• If the map file includes different zoom levels, use [*]/[#] to zoom in/out. If a particular zoom level does not cover the current location, then the next available zoom level will be selected instead (offline maps only).

• [6] centres the map on the current location. Note that if the current location does not lie within the bounds of the map then the centre point of the current map will be shown instead (offline maps only).

• [Fire] toggles AutoPan on/off, which automatically pans the map to keep the current location in view. When AutoPan in turned on an Asterisk is shown in the lower left corner.

• For more info on downloading maps or creating your own see the Maps and Map Organiser pages (linked at the top of this page)

Map Context-Sensitive Menu

Almost the same as the context menu for the Plan page (see above), with a couple of small differences:

• The Raster Map Source menu is used to select the type of Raster Map to be displayed - Offline or Online. The Offline Map method is for loading a map file from the phones file system, with a 'recent maps list' to quickly access previously opened maps. The Online Map selects a map style to download live from the internet (Menu/Web/Enable Web option needs to be set to allow map download). All online maps are sourced from OpenStreetMap data. Please note that these maps can quickly use up data bandwidth so a 'flat-rate' internet tariff is advisable.

• Offline Map / Cache Recent Tiles: On some phone handsets (older Sony Ericsson models in particular), each time a new map tile is loaded from the memory card the phone prompts for permission to access the file. This prompt is generated by the phone itself and cannot be overridden by TMJ-Mobile. However, by enabling the Map Cache feature, once a map has been loaded it is cached in a separate location in the phones storage, which can then be accessed in future without displaying a prompt. If your phone does not display these prompts then this option is best disabled.

• Offline Map / Alternate Map Loading Method: Some phones seem to be quite slow in reading map files from the phones memory card. This option enables an alternative method for reading the map files which may improve performance on some phones, in particular Symbian-based Nokia Series 60 and Sony Ericsson UIQ handsets.

• The Select Map Layer option allows for a particular Offline map layer to be directly selected instead of using the [*]/[#] keys. If using online maps this option is labelled Select Map Zoom.

• View Options/Brightness setting allows the map to be darkened (for viewing at night) or lightened (to allow the track/route/markers to show up better). Separate settings are stored for night and day colours mode. (Note: This Function is not available on all handsets).

The AutoPan item is simplified, with three options:

• Centred AutoPan: when AutoPan is turned on the current location is fixed in the centre of the screen.

• Tethered AutoPan: when AutoPan is turned on the map is scrolled automatically to try and display more map in the direction of travel, so that it is clearer what is coming up ahead. It looks ahead and centres the map on where you will be in 30 seconds time (assuming the current speed and heading is maintained).

• Floating AutoPan: when AutoPan is turned on the map is scrolled to prevent the current location from moving off screen. It can still be scrolled around manually using the [up/down/left/right] keys, within the central area of the screen.

The Re-Calibrate Map option aligns the map so that the current GPS location is aligned to the point currently at the centre of the map display. This can be useful if a map has not been perfectly calibrated, which is particularly noticeable with map files that cover a very large area. Note this is not an alternative to properly calibrating a map in the first place (using the PC-based Map Organiser).

Gauges Page [7]

Displays various 'analogue' gauges, with either 1 or 4 gauges per page (6 per page on Landscape Screens). Use [left/right] to cycle through the full-screen gauges, and [up/down] to cycle through the thumbnail gauges. The [fire] key switches between a light and dark background, making the gauges easier to see in different lighting conditions.

The Gauges Context Menu has just two options:

• Dark Background: Selects a dark or light background (same as pressing the [fire] key)

• Show Sun Location on Gauges: When selected the Sun's location will be displayed on the Bearing, Compass and Satellites gauges, along with the Ecliptic line (the path that the sun takes across the sky). The Bearing page also shows two extra 'ticks' along the edge of the gauge to aid in lining the sun up with the screen. This then becomes a 'sundial-in-reverse' allowing the exact direction of true north to be ascertained. (This is often difficult with standard GPS devices since it can only be determined from direction of travel, and is therefore impossible to calculate when stationary). The Suns Location is updated every couple of minutes, and is calculated for the current time and location.

Track Visualisation [8]

A cross between the Plan and Navigation pages, this view allows the track to be re-examined and replayed in both 2D and 3D. There are a number of different modes which can be set to control how the view is displayed.

• Key [8] selects the current viewing mode: PAN, ROTATE or WALK.

• [Fire] toggles whether the view is locked to the track or free to pan around in any direction. When locked, the view is centred on an individual trackpoint and its coordinates/altitude/speed etc are displayed at the top of the screen.

• [up/down/left/right] have slightly different actions depending on the viewing mode.

• Use [*]/[#] to zoom in/out in any mode.

Viewing modes:

• PAN (Free): Use [up/down/left/right] to pan around the view in any direction.

• PAN (Locked to track): Use [up/down] to jump to the next/previous trackpoint. Use [left/right] to move forward/backward in steps of 5 trackpoints.

• ROTATE (Free or Locked to track): Use [up/down] to alter the pitch of the viewing angle. Use [left/right] to rotate the view around the current location.

• WALK (Free): Use [up/down] to 'walk' forward/backwards along the current viewing direction. Use [left/right] to rotate the view.

• WALK (Locked to track): Use [up/down] to 'walk' forward/backwards along the track. The view is automatically rotated to match the track direction. Use [left/right] to rotate the view relative to the track direction.

Visualisation Page Context-Sensitive Menu

This is similar to the Navigation page menu (above), with a few additions:

• Selected Point: leads to a further submenu:

  1. Show Point On Map: jumps to the map/plan page and centres the view at the selected point location.

  2. Delete Point: deletes the highlighted point from the track

  3. Start New Section/Merge Sections: start a new track section at the highlighted point, or merge this section with the previous one.

  4. Link Graph/Visualisation Pages: When enabled, on switching between the Graph and Visualisation pages the selected point from the first page will be automatically highlighted on the second page.

• Play Track: Automatically Pans or Walks along the track, without the need to scroll manually. Press any key to stop playing.

• Jump to Current Location: Pans the view to centre on the current location.

• Fit Entire Track: Pans and resizes the view to try and fit the entire track on screen.

Graphs Page [9]

Shows a Speed and an Altitude graph for the current track and allows for basic examination of individual trackpoints.

• [Fire] toggles AutoPan on/off, which automatically scrolls the graph from right to left as new points are created. When AutoPan in turned on a marker is shown in the lower left corner.

• When AutoPan is off use [left/right] to scroll the graph.

• Use [*]/[#] to zoom in/out horizontally.

• Press [9] to fit the entire track into the screen width. Press [9] a second time to fit the current track section into the screen width

Graph Page Context-Sensitive Menu

1. X-Axis: Set the units displayed along the horizontal axis - Points, Distance, Time and Minutes.

2. Show Cursor: Toggles a text readout at the top of the screen showing either the current location (when AutoPan is on) or the coordinates of the highlighted point (when AutoPan is off).

3. Show Gridlines: Toggles graph gridlines on/off.

4. Show Section Markers: Toggles section markers on/off.

5. Show Route Remaining: If a route containing altitude data is loaded and active, then the route's altitude profile is displayed on the lower altitude graph. When AutoPan is off the graph can be scrolled to examine the individual route points, giving the distance to each point (from the current location) and the ETA at the point. 

6. Selected Point: Leads to a further submenu as detailed on the Visualisation menu above.

1. Map Style, used for setting visual options to define the overall look of the vector map. When ticked, each of the first 7 options (above the line) will add to the rendering overhead of the map, so can be turned off if the map display becomes too slow.

   • Show Land Use - option to set whether filled areas/polygons are displayed, including lakes, woodland, land use, etc.

   • Show Buildings - option to set whether buildings are displayed on the map.

   • Show Labels/Icons - displays POIs and Town/Area names.

   • Show Outlines - displays a black outline on roads. Note that the BackBuffer Performance settings (see below) can significantly improve the outline display on the 2D Plan and Route pages. When disabled the Map is drawn on a grey background to prevent white streets from becoming invisible.

   • Show Dotted Lines - allows footpaths, bridleways and cycleways to be displayed with a dotted line, otherwise a solid line is used (drawing a dotted line puts more strain on the phones graphics processor).

   • Thicker Lines - draws thin lines slight bolder as a double-pixel line.

   • Show Current Street if Available: When AutoPan is enabled on the Plan and Navigation view the current Street Name will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. 

   • Highlight Missing Streetnames - displays streets that have no name in bright green, similar to the OpenStreetMap 'NoNames' rendering. Extremely useful on OSM Mapping Parties to know which areas need attention. Note: this is only fully implemented on zoom levels 9 and 10.

   • Greyscale - Displays the entire map (excluding waypoint icons) in greyscale, useful for making the track/route stand out more clearly.

   • Contrast - used to increase or decrease the map contrast/colour saturation. The standard colours can look slightly muted on some displays, which the Higher and Maximum Contrast settings can improve. The Lower Contrast is useful to allow the track/route to stand out more clearly.

2. Map Performance, for setting options to improve the map performance (at the expense of quality). Ideally most of these options would all be turned off, but on some phones with slower graphics they can be used to reduce the map detail to improve rendering times (at the expense of map quality).

   • Simplify When Scrolling - usually the phone only has to display one frame per second but when scrolling this needs to increase to 5 or 10 frames per second to make it seem responsive enough. This setting tries to remove some map detail during scrolling to improve response time. (Note this has no effect on the Plan page if the BackBuffer is enabled, see below).

   • Link Zoom on Nav/Plan/Route - the phone only ever stores 4 tiles in memory at any one time so when switching between, for example, the Plan and Navigation pages, if they each have very different zoom levels then the phone will have to reload the tile set when switching between views. This setting tries to preserve the zoom level when switching between views to prevent unnecessary tile requests.

   • Draw Wireframe - draws the entire tile with single lines for each road, to aid rendering times. (It does make the map look rubbish though!!)

   • Tiles to Load - defines the number of map tiles that will be loaded and displayed at any one time on the phone. The default of 4 tiles should be sufficient for most phones without slowing down the display too much. The Single tile view only loads one tile at a time (the one at the very centre of the screen), greatly improves rendering times but the single tile becomes very noticeable on the Plan page when scrolling towards the edge of each tile, leaving up to 75% of the screen blank. The 6- and 9-tile options should only be used on faster/recent phones with high-resolution displays, and use a lot more memory. The 6-tile option can be a good trade off between speed/map quality.

   • Minimise Memory - When enabled the Vector Maps are unloaded from memory when switching to the raster map page to prevent the phone from having to store too much at one time. This setting can usually be turned off on recent phones that have more than 2Mb of 'Java heap' space.

   • Map Detail - this is a general setting that controls the scaling point at which the phone switches between zoom levels. For example, when zooming out, the Higher Detail setting would keep Zoom 9 tiles on screen for longer (thereby displaying more detail), before jumping to Zoom 8.

   • BackBuffer: when plotting the vector map on the 2D Plan and Route screens this option draws the map initially onto a 'Background Canvas', which can then be reused for several frames, until the map scrolls off-screen (leaving a white section that needs to be re-drawn). This can significantly improve the speed of the map display on the Plan view, which on some phones is almost unusable otherwise. It also allows the Road and Bridge Outlines to be rendered more accurately. There are 3 levels of buffering, which correspond to increasing memory requirements. The default setting Single/Small, uses the lowest memory, the Single/Medium uses the largest backbuffer (by pixel size, at 4x the screen area). The Double/Large setting uses two separate buffers, so that the phone can be displaying one buffer whilst drawing to the other. This can give the smoothest performance, but uses the most memory. It is best to experiment to find which method works best on a particular phone. In general, new/higher-end phones should be able to better handle the Medium and Large settings, but older phones may have to make do with the Small setting.

3. Reload/Unload Current Map - deletes the 4 currently loaded tiles from the cache and forces them to be updated from the webserver (if Enable Web is set, otherwise the map view is cleared)

4. Map Status - displays information about the currently loaded tiles, including filesize, tile creation time, etc

5. Items with Websites - show a list of the currently loaded vector items that have related websites. Selecting an item will open the relevant website in the phones browser. The websites are taken from OSM 'wikipedia', 'website' and 'URL' tags, if available. Note that not all sites will be suitable for viewing on a mobile.
   In the UK, bus-stops (with valid OSM/NapTan tags), Tube stations (with 'network=London Underground' tags) and Railway Stations link to live timetable websites (Traveline, TFL and National Rail respectively) providing quick and useful travel information. (Note: if there are similar coordinated OSM tagging schemes for bus stops etc in other countries, let me know and I'll see if they can be integrated as well).