Manual

Navideo 3.0

 for Windows Powered Pocket PCs


Introduction
1. Installation
2. Configuration
3. Sending Positions
4. Sending SOS
5. Requesting Positions
6. Displaying Positions
7. Navigating
8. Trips
9. Placemarks
10. Tracking
11. Speedometer
12. Registration
13. Contact and Support

Introduction

Navideo for PocketPCs connects navigation with mobile communication. Send your GPS location to others and also receive or request their location. Send your position for emergency assistance. Save your GPS position or your complete journey. Connect your PocketPC to Navideo Live - a web platform for fleetmanagement. Navideo can either be run in a Standalone Mode without additional navigation software or in combination with external navigation software.

1. Installation

Unzip the archive, copy the appropriate .cab file to you PDA and run it from there. Run Navideo from your program menu or from within TomTom Navigator.

Requirements:

PocketPC with Operating Systems Windows Mobile 2002, 2003, 2003SE, 5.0, 6.0 and TomTom Navigator 2, 3, 5, 6 (optional)

  • Basic functionality (logging, creating placemarks and driving records): Internal or external GPS receiver required.
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  • Full functionality (including sending/receiving of locations): Internal or external phone functionality required.

2. Configuration

    Configure Navideo

            
    

1/7 Mode:

Set to "Standalone Mode" if only Navideo is running and to "TomTom Mode" if you want to run Tom Navigator at the same time.

TomTom:

When Navideo is started while TomTom Navigator is running "TomTom Mode" is automatically set. You can easily switch between both applications:

  • TomTom to Navideo: Click the icon "Switch to Navideo" in the TomTom Menu icons
  • Navideo to TomTom: Minimize Navideo by hittings its upper right windows button.

Standalone:

Usage without any additional navigation software.

  • COM Port: Set the COM-Port of your GPS receiver. If you use a Bluetooth GPS receiver which runs in the Bluetooth serial port mode, then take the "Incoming COM-Port" as defined in the Bluetooth setup
  • Baudrate: Baudrate (Bits/sec) of you GPS receiver (default=4800)
  

    
         

 

            
    

2/7 User Data:

Enter your User-ID/Email address which is required for messaging via navideo.net and for using your PocketPC together with Navideo Live (optional).

 

    
         

 

            
    

3/7 Messaging:

If a SMS number is specified as recipient any message to that number is automatically sent by SMS.

In case an email address is defined there are two ways to send messages:

Internet Messaging via navideo.net:

  • Messages are sent immediately over the navideo.net platform. Therefore you need to enter your own email address in the user data section.

Internet Messaging via Email:

  • Messages are sent via your PocketPC messaging application. Be aware that exchanging emails does not necessarily occur in "push" mode as with SMS messages. However, it's possible to set up your email service so that it synchronizes with the mail server automatically within defined time intervals. To accomplish that, start your messaging service and go to the "options" dialog of the mail-account your are using.
 

    
         

 

            
    

4/7 Tracking:

  • Autostart: If enabled, GPS and tracking mode will be automatically enabled after Navideo has been started
  • Navideo Tracking (TR) (optional): If enabled, your position is beeing updated at Navideo Live
  • Time Difference: Update time interval of Navideo Live Tracking
  • Autoresonder (AR): Answer position requests if checked
  

    
         

 

            
    

5/7 Logging:

  • Logging Autostart: If enabled, GPS and logging will be automatically enabled after Navideo has been started
  • Time Interval: Time difference between two logged positions in your logfiles
  • File Format: Select the output format of your logging data or placemarks
    • Google Maps: creates logging and placemark files with ending *.html
    • Google Earth: creates logging and placemark files with ending *.kml
    • Microsoft Autoroute: creates logging files with ending *.txt
    Open these files as described below
  

    
         

 

            
    

6/7 Placemarks:

  • File Format: Select the output format of your logging data or placemarks
    • Google Maps: creates logging and placemark files with ending *.html
    • Google Earth: creates logging and placemark files with ending *.kml
    Open these files as described below
  

    
         

 

            
    

7/7 SOS :

  • Emergency Service Address:Select on of the predefined emergency services. Only German car service companies are currently supported. If your Service is not among this list you can of course manually enter the SMS number or email address of your service.
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3. Sending Positions

    Send your current position as SMS or email

            
    

Before sending a location the software automatically enables your GPS if it is not already active and checks if your GPS signal is valid. An Address List Dialog will then be opened and you can either enter a SMS number or Email address or select one of the previously defined recipients. A message will be send by clicking the letter icon at the left side of the corresponding field.

  • SMS: if a number is entered as recipient your position will be sent automatically as SMS with your PocketPC messaging application
  • Email: Positions will be sent according to what is defined in your messaging configuration

 

 

    
         

 

            
    

Sending an Address:

If you want to send a text address (which is not necessarily your actual position) you can enter any address (street, number, city, text-message) in the dialog command->send->send address. When Navideo runs in "TomTom" mode you may check the position of the address prior to sending. Be aware, that the recipient of these messages also needs a PocketPC that runs Navideo in "TomTom" mode.

  

    
         

Minimizing Traffic:

In order to minimize GPRS traffic, Navideo location messages only requires the subject line to transfer its information. Therefore you also may configure your mailbox likewise.

4. Sending SOS

    Send your current position to an emergency service

A location message can be sent to the address as defined in the emergency service configuration. Only German car service companies are currently supported. If your Service is not among this list you can of course manually enter the SMS number or email address of your service.

5. Requesting Positions

    Request a position from someone else

            
    

An autoresponder request will be sent to the SMS number or Email address as specified in the configuration. Depending on your networks an autoresponder message will be returned within seconds.

Be aware that Navideo is running on the recipients PDA at the same time and also that its AR flag in the Navideo configuration is enabled. The message and the location information is getting stored in the Navideo message box.

  

    
         

 

6 . Displaying Positions

    Display the selected position

            
    

 

Every Navideo message with location information will get automatically detected while this application is running. If a message is being received while the application is not running it will remain in the inbox of the Messaging application until it is detected during the next start of Navideo.

 

  

    
         

You can browse your incoming positions within the front panel using the buttons

and display the location of each message with

Alternatively to get any detail about these positions you may open the message dialog by

and display each position by

If the mode as defined in the configuration menu is "TomTom", then all locations are displayed in that application. In the running mode "Standalone" positions are displayed in the internet explorer using the navideo.net mapping service. Each displayed map requires only about 25kB of transferred data.

Hint: You can also edit the upper LAT/LON fields and insert any coordinates you want. By clicking command->Show own Pos you can see this position in your mapping application.

7 . Navigating

    Navigate to the selected position

 

            
    

If the mode is set to "TomTom" whenever clicking this button TomTom immediately starts to navigate to the location contained in the current message. In case the mode is set to "Standalone" a offroad targetfinder is displayed instead, showing target distance and direction.

  

    
         

Browse positions within the front panel using the buttons

and navigate to the selected one with

Alternatively you also may open the message dialog by

and start navigation to by

8. Trips

    Start Logging
    Stop Logging
      Show Trip Record

Whenever a trip has been recorded by "Start Log" and "Stop Log" an entry is added to both files TRIP_RECORD.csv and TRIP_RECORD.html in the folder \My Documents. For displaying the trip records on your PC you need to copy the files TRIP_RECORD.* and log*.* to your PC. You can either open the log*.* files by double-clicking or from within TRIP_RECORD.html. For displaying *.kml files GoogleEarth must be installed!

Hint: Height information only can get saved if your running mode is set to "Standalone".

Displaying your Trips on your PC:

            
    

Google Maps:

  • copy the logging files log*.html in your folder \My Documents to your PC
  • just doubleclick the log*.html file to display the complete track on a map within your browser
  • zoom into or move the map by using the displayed controls.
  • Hint: if you can't see any track you might need to zoom in because the overall trip distance is too small to see on the initial scale of the map
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Google Earth:

  • copy the logging files log*.kml in your folder \My Documents to your PC
  • if Google Earth is installed on your PC the logging data automatically gets imported when you doubleclick the appropriate log*.kml file
  • if your logfile was recorded in "Standalone" mode you can enable terrain information in GoogleEarth. If it was recorded while TomTom Navigator was running you need to disable the terrain information in order to display the track correctly.
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Microsoft Autoroute:

  • Start Microsoft Autoroute
  • Press [Ctrl]+I for importing data, select your logging file
  • Select "Semicolon" as character that separates fields
  • Select Name for the first, "Latitude" for the second and "Longitude" for the third column. Press [Finish] to import the data
 		 

    
         

9. Placemarks

  Save a Placemark of your current position
  Show Placemark Record

Whenever a is saved by command->save placemark an entry is added to the file PLACEMARK_RECORD.html in the folder \My Documents. For displaying the placemark records on your PC you need to copy this file and the files placemark*.* to your PC. You can either open the placemark*.* files by double-clicking or from within PLACEMARK_RECORD.html. For displaying *.kml files GoogleEarth must be installed!

            
     Displaying placemarks on your PC using Google Maps:
  • copy the files placemark*.html in your folder \My Documents to your PC
  • if you have an active internet connection and if JavaScript is enabled within your browser you only need to doubleclick the *.html file to display the position. You can zoom into or move the map by using the displayed controls. Display the text of the placemark by doubleclicking the marker. 
  
 

     
         

 

            
     Displaying placemarks on your PC using Google Earth:
  • copy the files placemark*.kml or placemark*.html in your folder \My Documents to your PC
  • if you have an active internet connection and if Google Earth is installed on your PC the placemark will be opened automatically when you doubleclick the appropriate *.kml file


  

    
         

10. Tracking (optional)

    Start Tracking

If Navideo Live Tracking (TR) is checked in the tracking section of the configuration your position at Navideo Live is updated as soon as GPS is activated and whenever the time interval as defined has passed.

11. Speedometer

    Show Speedometer

            
    
    A dialog is opened showing your speed, height (only in Standalone mode), driving distance and time
 

    
         

12. Registration

The free version of Navideo does not require registration. The versions Navideo Plus or Pro need to be registered after 2 days. The Machine-ID which is unique for every different PDA is also displayed and has to be emailed to register@navideo.net for registration. The application is registered after the appropriate License Key has been entered and saved. The registration dialog also can be started manually within the menu settings->registration.

13. Contact and Support

Thanks for using Navideo!

For further information, registration and support go to the website

http://www.navideo.net

or write an email to:

info@navideo.net



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