Direction & distance & track

About Direction & distance & track Android App

We will guide the direction and distance from your current location to your destination with a straight line on the map.

The other five functions
1. Tracking(Movement record)
2. Current Location sharing(for example among family members and friends)
3. Distance measurement
4. GPS or GNSS viewer
5. Latitude longitude and altitude measurement

1. Set a destination with a long tap or address and aid with a straight line the direction and distance from your location to your destination on Google Maps. The direction of the map can be switched between "progress direction up" and "north up".

2. You can record the calories burned, speed and altitude along with the trail route, such as walking, jogging, running, cycling, cars and motorbikes. (* 1)

3. You can share the current location and the 1-minute movement record in real time, such as family watching and leisure with friends. (* 1) (* 2) (* 3) (* 4)

4. You can check the status of GPS (GNSS) graphically with the GPS viewer. You can also check latitude and longitude, altitude, accuracy and so on. It also corresponds to QZSS (Michibiki) by a smartphone terminal.

5. You can measure the distance from the current location to the destination.

(* 1) GPS (GNSS) positioning may contain errors due to the environment of the current location.
In an environment that obstructs the view of the sky, such as a building with a height, under the elevation, between indoor and outdoor, diffuse reflection or delay of GPS radio waves called multipath occurs, which may include errors in calculation of the current location .
The error of GPS which is supposed to be within the normal range is about several meters to several tens of meters, but if multipath influences, errors of several kilometers to dozens of kilometers may occur.
Although the altitude is also acquired from the GPS (GNSS) to record the trajectory route, the altitude data and cumulative altitude deviate greatly from actual ones by algorithms that give priority to horizontal movement rather than vertical (up and down) movement Since there is a case, please judge it as a reference value level.


(* 2) Account registration (free) is required within the application to perform group search. Account registration is as simple as registering a favorite name, and after registration the account key and its QR code will be issued.
We use "Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)" and a developer's relay server (AWS) for group search.
The relay server only relays the GCM and does not hold information that identifies privacy such as user's location information.

(* 3) For group search, search is not executed unless both the search side and the search side have group registration for security protection.

(* 4) In the group search, we first respond to the network location information of the searcher and the remaining battery level. After that, the position is measured by GPS and if GPS positioning is possible, we will respond with GPS position information every 5 seconds and its accuracy.
Below is a report when testing in Nagoya, Japan.
When the network location information is located in the WiFi area, there is a tendency to obtain highly accurate location information (roughly within 100 m of error) even indoors and underground, but when it is located outside the WiFi area, the actual location and error of 1 km or more It may include. In addition, network location information may not be available depending on the setting of the smartphone terminal.