Overview

windRose is a Java application for delivering navigation services to a PDA or a mobile phone connected to a GPS receiver. It provides positioning information (coordinates, altitude, speed and course) as well as maps, track recording, weather conditions and waypoint management.

windRose has been originally developed for Palm OS and other mobile systems running the IBM J9 Java Virtual Machine; it has been reported to run on other platforms and there's ongoing work to improve its portability.

windRose is a free and open source project, which means that users can actively participate in testing and developing features. If you own a phone where windRose doesn't run, or you have ideas about new features, please let us know by means of the user's forum or the issue tracker.

Geotagged notes

Among other features, windRose is able to take "geotagged notes". Whenever you want, you just select a menu and you can enter a note and some tags. The note is recorded together with the current position. Later, you can export the geotagged note for further processing (for instance, importing it into Google Earth).

Geotagged notes can be useful in many circumstances: to record a bird observation, to recall a place that you would like to photo or to visit in future, etc..

The functional area of geotagged notes is under active development and future versions of windRose will allow even more flexibility.

 

Disclaimer

windRose can be used for many purposes: leisure, recording your trekking/driving/sailing/cycling route, and so on; but we don't guarantee the accuracy of the information it delivers (which also depend on the GPS equipment you are using): for this reason, we don't advice using it in life-critical scenarios (such as life rescue). We won't be responsible for any trouble derived by windRose delivering incorrect data. Please have a look at the license.