Tutorials

BackCountry Navigator has a grid view of waypoints, places, and tracks you have defined.

BackCountry Navigator allows you to start a download by defining regions on the map screen and then choosing from topo maps, aerial photography, and urban areas color photography, where available.

Also known as breadcrumbing, tracking is a much requested feature of BackCountry Navigator. As of version 2.0, this feature allows you to mark and save a path, and export it in a GPX file for sharing or viewing. 

BackCountry Navigator imports a variety of waypoint files in the GPX format, allowing you to benefit from GPS waypoints that are freely available on the internet.

BackCountry Navigator works with Windows Mobile GPS receivers. Many of the modern Windows Mobile Phones have a GPS built in. For others, they can be equipped with a bluetooth GPS Receiver, that adds the GPS capability. Common once, although less common now, are GPS receivers that fit in a compact flash card space. 

For Windows Mobile 5 and above, there is a GPS Control Panel to setup your GPS for all applications to use. Generally accessed from Settings->System->External GPS.

If these have already been set up by you or the manufacturer for an internal GPS, don't touch them. If, however, you have setup a bluetooth GPS, setup the Hardware port as the "Incoming Serial Port" from your bluetooth setup, and set the Program port to an unused port. (yes it is a bit of a guess to find what is unused). 

BackCountry Navigator allows you to define custom waypoints as easily as tapping the screen of your Pocket PC. Once defined, you can add the elevation, custom description, and notes.

Do you have a Windows Mobile Phone or PDA, and want to do some paperless geocaching? Here's an example of how it is done.

Simply importing your GPX file (pocket query) into BackCountry Navigator will put you well on the way to this high tech treasure hunting adventure. Once you've done this, you can:

• Preload maps of the surrounding area and see all the caches on the map. 
• Navigate to each cache on your target list. 
• Read clues and descriptions 

You can instantly download geographic places from the USGS database, marking important features on the map at the touch of a button.   

The software allows you freely zoom and pan around the map you create on your pocket PC device, loading different resolutions based on the scale.  

BackCountry Navigator can also load topo maps and aerial photos by a choosing a center point and size. Here we see an example of acquiring maps for a flatwater kayak trip.