This is about a free and good app to use on your cell phone to use it as a GPS. The site said it works with Android or Apple phones. Mine is a very low cost Android based phone and it works great.
A couple of weeks ago I watched a YouTube on what every man should carry in his vehicle. One included loading the cell phone app "Gaia GPS" on a cell phone and having that phone with you. So I loaded it on my cheap $ 40.00 Refurbished Samsung Galaxy J3 Orbit that uses an Android operating system and have been using this GPS system since then, and I have not had or used a GPS before that. It is an easy to use GPS with easy to learn powerful features. You can use discover (it looks like a little magnifying glass symbol on center bottom of the screen) to load an address or a GPS coordinate and it will show a map with the location, if you hit the three little circles on the top right of the screen after it finds the address the prompt for "show on Map" comes up. You click on that and the map comes up. Then click on the circle with the + sign in the middle and you can add a way point that will remain on the location in the map of the address you have just entered if you hit save. Then you can zoom in or out on the map. And a brown arrow head comes up showing your current location. And as you move it moves on the map.
It has roads and trails marked on the map. You can use it to follow your location on roads as you drive to addresses of a way point you have entered on the map.
And it uses the GPS satellites (not your cell phone tower or cell phone signal) so it does not use any cell phone air time.
There are things you can click on to show how many GPS satellites it is using to find your location. I checked it once and it said it currently recognized 14 satellites and was using 12 of them to locate where I was. It is very accurate. If you do not move for a few minutes, it gets even more accurate on showing the brown arrow head on the map where you are.
This app is free, and it seams to not eat up the battery life of the cell phone, and it does not use the cell phone air time. Also you can add pictures saved and linked to the way points you enter.
It is a powerful GPS that works well.
So far, I have used it twice to find locations that I had to drive to and it works well even when in a car while moving, or in a house while entering in a way point. I have also used it to follow my location while walking in woods and it works well. One of the things that is nice is you can use it for many hours while walking and it uses 0 cell phone air time.
Load it and try it. It really is a very good free GPS app to put on your phone. And if I with absolutely no background in using a GPS can figure it out just by using it for a couple of weeks, then you can figure it out also.
A couple of weeks ago I watched a YouTube on what every man should carry in his vehicle. One included loading the cell phone app "Gaia GPS" on a cell phone and having that phone with you. So I loaded it on my cheap $ 40.00 Refurbished Samsung Galaxy J3 Orbit that uses an Android operating system and have been using this GPS system since then, and I have not had or used a GPS before that. It is an easy to use GPS with easy to learn powerful features. You can use discover (it looks like a little magnifying glass symbol on center bottom of the screen) to load an address or a GPS coordinate and it will show a map with the location, if you hit the three little circles on the top right of the screen after it finds the address the prompt for "show on Map" comes up. You click on that and the map comes up. Then click on the circle with the + sign in the middle and you can add a way point that will remain on the location in the map of the address you have just entered if you hit save. Then you can zoom in or out on the map. And a brown arrow head comes up showing your current location. And as you move it moves on the map.
It has roads and trails marked on the map. You can use it to follow your location on roads as you drive to addresses of a way point you have entered on the map.
And it uses the GPS satellites (not your cell phone tower or cell phone signal) so it does not use any cell phone air time.
There are things you can click on to show how many GPS satellites it is using to find your location. I checked it once and it said it currently recognized 14 satellites and was using 12 of them to locate where I was. It is very accurate. If you do not move for a few minutes, it gets even more accurate on showing the brown arrow head on the map where you are.
This app is free, and it seams to not eat up the battery life of the cell phone, and it does not use the cell phone air time. Also you can add pictures saved and linked to the way points you enter.
It is a powerful GPS that works well.
So far, I have used it twice to find locations that I had to drive to and it works well even when in a car while moving, or in a house while entering in a way point. I have also used it to follow my location while walking in woods and it works well. One of the things that is nice is you can use it for many hours while walking and it uses 0 cell phone air time.
Load it and try it. It really is a very good free GPS app to put on your phone. And if I with absolutely no background in using a GPS can figure it out just by using it for a couple of weeks, then you can figure it out also.
