MapNotes

About MapNotes Android App

“Map Notes” enable you to make your own original maps easily by putting hand-writing notes, images, and pins onto the Google Maps.
The notes you have created are stored in to a list and you can access it off-line anytime even when the signal is bad, or you get no signal at all due to disasters or other bad conditions.

Register the map and information of the place you are going to visit.
Make illustrated records of your trips.
Give supplemental information to your diary or reports.
Send your location to your friends.

There are so many ways to use “Map Notes.”

Please let us know the model of your mobile-phone as well then.

＜Supported OS＞
Android 2.1/2.2/2.3

To see the list of validated models, tap “go to the developer’s site” button at the bottom.


●List Viewing
Display the Map Notes you created and saved as a list.
You can reorder the Map Notes drag-and-drop.
You can delete the Map Notes on the page.

●Map Viewing
Choose map and area to which you want to put notes on Map Viewing page.
When you create a new Map Note, GPS navigation system finds you location and show the map around. You can put addresses or name of place (ex; station name) into the search box and jump to the map there, easily and quick!! Basic functions like zoom in or out, scroll, depends on the features of Google Maps.

●Hand-writing mode
You can draw your hand-writing lines, notes or pictures, or put images onto the map. Colors, line-types, boldness and transparency in hand-writing are changeable by the setting. You can put images on the map and can move, enlarge, reduce and revolve the images on the map. You can also put pins on the map choosing from the list includes 44 deferent types of pins.
You can undo your last action while you are drawing. [Undo function]

●Title and note
You can give title and add some comments (descriptions of the Map Note) to the Map Notes when you save it.
By tapping “MEMO” button at the top, you can see a note (or a comment) below the Map notes.


●Map Notes uses Google Maps as mapping platform.
You need an Internet connection to see the map.

This app finds your location using GPS navigation system on your mobile phone, therefore the function and accuracy depend on your location. There are some places where the function of the GPS navigation system is limited or totally blocked and cannot identify your location precisely. If the navigation system cannot find you location, the map around Tokyo station is shown at the Map viewing page.
[ex.] 　inside tunnel, parking lot inside building, under bridge or overpass, on a road surrounded by buildings etc…

If your current location is not shown on the map, changing these settings as bellow might solve it.(Recommended Settings)
1.Activate GPS and Wireless Netwark feature on positional information setting.
2.Activate Wi-Fi.

●This application uses a GoogleAnalytics
In order to improve the application, to record the following information.
- impressions of each screen
- Number of times each button pressed