BackCountry Navigator Android

Development of BackCountry Navigator for Android is ongoing. 

Topo maps and other maps used by BackCountry Navigator come in many small pieces,which are put together when viewing. BackCountry Navigator in the past has stored these has stored these in the database file with the vector data - the tracks and waypoints - all in a .db3 file. 

Recent research for BackCountry Navigator on Android has proven that performance is sufficient when map images are stored in a single, file based repository for image data. This is a large number of smaller files in a neatly organized directory instead of one large file. 

As work continues on BackCountry Navigator for Android, we discuss the means of finding a geographical place.

In BackCountry Navigator for Android, finding a place is valuable for recentering your topographic map on a particular area.  As Google is heavily involved in the Android platform, they believe that every application should have a search. 
 

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I am pleased to announce that through a partnership with MyTopo.com, new topo maps will be featured in BackCountry Navigator for Android.

These maps have the same information as the USGS Topo maps, but have shading and sharper image quality.

Development of BackCountry Navigator for Android is ongoing. In this newsletter, we talk about previewing topo maps and other maps in Android. Previewing allows you to look at areas you plan to visit by real time retrieval from the internet.