MobileTraveler v1.4.3540.20809

Description:
Mobile Traveler enables you when you are traveling abroad (e.g. Japan) to find your way around there.

It uses Google to find routes and enables pre-fetching parts of Googles/Microsoft, OpenStreet maps and satellite images at home or any where you have WiFi or cheap datarates of your mobile telephone provider. Besides this it is especially usefull when you are visiting Japan. Traveling in Japan with the public transport is very safe and a fast way to move around. MobileTraveler contains almost all Japans Honsu area trainlines and all shinkansen tracks. And best of all it's freeware. The software is tested on a SonyEricsson Xperia X1 and on a HP IPAQ rx5900. It works fine on both devices. It is known that a touch screen device is required. It will NOT work on devices that do NOT have a touchscreen.

Maps can be downloaded in 2 ways. From within mobile traveler using a WiFi or 3G connection picture by picture depending on the lat/lon location viewed or by using the MapFileConverter also found in the downloading section. The last one runs on Windows XP & Windows Vista. The MapFileConverter enables you to prefetch many pictures of a whole area. The files downloaded by the MapFileConverter are placed in a subdirectory at your PC where you installed the MapFileConverter. This directory must be copied to youre windows mobile device at the \..\MobileTraveler\MobileTraveler\Maps directory. Using the MapFileConverter saves 3G costs and works faster.

JR-east runs the main trainlines in the Tokyo bigger area. It is however not the only one. Keikyu, Sotetsu, Odakyu are some of the many other ones running train lines mainly in the Tokyo & Kanagawa prefectures. JR-east however enables you to buy a JR rail pass that can be used on all JR rails and JR busses in whole Japan including the expensive but rapid shinkansen trains (except the Nozumi series.). JAL and ANA are the airliners within Japan. JAL is also flying to places outside Japan. ANA is famous about it painted planes containing pictures of Pokemon and Disney. Japan really has many faces. On one hand it contains the most hightech electronic, computer and car industries (e.g. SONY, Panasonic, Toshiba, Toyota, Lexus, Honda) On the otherhand it has old traditions which mainly can be seen during festivals and in the former Empire city Kyoto. It is one of the denst populated countries of the world especially because only a few procent of the country can be used to build cities (The rest of the country is forrest on mountains created by vulcanic activities). It has the largest metropolitan area on our planet in Tokyo and the cities around it. There are living 32 million people while the total number of people of Japan is around 128 million. It is a very safe country for western visiters. They probably even won't notice the Japanese Yakusa who is as famous as the Italian Mafia. Japan is also special about pornography. Showing pubic hair in magazines or video's is not allowed but Manga and Hentai comic strips show extreme forms of sex. Every Japanese under 40 years old had a lot of English education. Although many of them can write it well most of them don't speak it very well. On the one hand they are ashamed to do so and on the other hand they just didn't practice speaking English enough.

If youre are not looking for this freeware product or are looking for a great windows mobile phone to run it on you probably can find it by the search results supported by google shown on the top of this website. Just click on them or enter you search string in the searchbox. It is known that TOMTOM has no japan maps. It seems however that for Garmin some maps are available. They however will never have the details that are supported by Google, Microsoft or even OpenStreetmap.

Key Features:
The MapConverter for Windows XP and/or Windows Vista allows to pre-fetch map images for the MobileTraveler pocketPC application. The images are stored in ".map" and ".mapbin" index files and are created on Windows XP and/or Windows Vista and must be stransfered to the Maps sub directory on your pocketPC. The location of these Maps directry is at the same location where the MobileTraveler.MobilteTravelerMainApp.exe is located (This will be \Storage Card\ProgramFiles\MobileTraveler\MobileTraveler\Maps in case it is installed on \Storage Card\) Prefetching a map area on the PC is far more easier than downloading them on the pocket pc.

Known Issues MobileTraveler v1.4:
* It is known that the storage card the MobileTraveler1.4 application is installed on should not be locked (write protected). This is because when saving tracks or adding/editing POI values are saved on this storage card.
* The MobileTraveler1.4 application must be restarted in case a new map is added in the maps directory. This because MobileTraveler1.4 checks the available maps at startup.
* The installation directory of the MapFileConverter1.1 application on your PC is of importance if you are running Windows Vista. It is not allowed to install it in the "Program Files" directory because Windows Vista does not allow the MapFileConverter1.1 application to store files in this directory. And that is just was MapFileConverter1.1 does. It stores the created maps in the Output sub directory. Using the default directory that is sugested by the msi install program works however fine.

Requirements:
* Windows Mobile Pocket PC
* DotNet3.5 CF

More information:
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