Welcome

Pinta GPS turns your Android phone or tablet into a serious navigation instrument. It has been designed from the ground up to show clear, reliable, and relevant navigation information, instead of glitz or gimmics. Whether you are hiking, geocaching, exploring cities, traveling by train or bus, or anything else that needs navigation, Pinta GPS can show you the information you need, and only that.

Pinta GPS is not just a moving-map app. It has more than fifty types of display, and the map display is just one of them. It can also show:

• Your latitude, longitude and heading
• Your distance and bearing to a destination
• Extensive GPS status information
• Compass-like displays for easy navigation
• Sunrise, sunset, and sidereal time for any place on earth.
• Sun azimuth (apparent direction) and elevation
• Raw magnetic, accelerometer, and light-sensor info

See the screenshots page for a guided tour of some screen shots.

Pinta GPS comes with sets of pages for most common uses, but you can add, remove, or modify pages, or design your own pages, and save them for later use.

Features of Pinta GPS

• Navigation using built-in GPS and network locations
• Navigation using Bluetooth GPS devices (Only on Android 2.0 and later)
• Metric and imperial units, and knots/nautical miles
• Extensive manual in the app (Browse it here)
  
• Offline maps. If parts (tiles) of a map are not available, they can be  downloaded immediately or recorded for later downloading
• Quickly switch between multiple pages of information
• Preprogrammed page sets for general use, hiking, geocaching, public transport
• Add, remove, and modify pages, or design a page from scratch
• Store and load your own page sets
• Independent page sets for portrait and landscape orientation
• Very flexible page layout, also suitable for tablets of any size
• Supports GPX routes and way points
• GPX files and map tiles are stored on SD card, and can be backed up to your computer, or even shared with another Pinta GPS
• Support for following a route, automatically selects next point in route
• Stale information is shown in red to to warn you

Pinta GPS supports the following maps: OpenStreetMap Osmarender and Mapnik, and OpenCycleMap.

Note that Pinta GPS is designed as an outdoor GPS: it doesn't do route planning, and shown directions are always as the crow files.

Although we have tried our very best to make Pinta GPS as reliable as possible, it is always possible that you encounter a problem. Please report any problem to java.instruments@gmail.com, so that we can fix it. Pinta GPS is not a hit-and-run app. We use it on our own trips, and we want a smoothly functioning program, now and next year.

For more information, see the screenshots page, or read the manual, exactly as in the app.

To buy the app, go to the market.

Disclaimer

YOU are responsible for your own safety, and like any consumer GPS, Pinta GPS can NOT be your only means of navigation. YOU must make sure that you can also get home safely without Pinta GPS. We do not accept any responsibility for loss of time, material, life, or any other damage, directly or indirectly, due to Pinta GPS.

We mean it. Phones can break, batteries can get empty, GPS fixes can get lost without quick recovery, and yes, our software can contain bugs. If you are hopelessly lost without Pinta GPS, you are doing it wrong.

Of course the same is true for a dedicated GPS device: if you are hopelessly when that GPS device fails, you are doing it wrong.