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Find Nearby Quads using TopoSports

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We listened to your feedback and have added some more features to the first version. TopoSports has been enhanced with the ability to find nearby quads and download them. This is especially useful for the following two use cases: "MyLocation" keeps showing you in an area for which you do not have a map. Simply press menu and select "Nearby quads". This will show you all the nearby quads in a grid. The quad for the map you are looking at would be the center of this grid. You already have quad of an area and you want to look at its neighboring quads. Simply select the quad you have download, press menu and select "Nearby quads". I am including below screenshots of this in action. The screenshots were taken on a Storm1. Fig. 1 My Location shows me in a quad I don't have the map for Fig. 2 I am in Cupertino and I can see nearby quads The new release has the following minor changes: More convenient hotkeys: Pressing 'i' on devices with full 'q...

TopoSports USA for blackberry launched

TopoSports, USA , the only blackberry app to offer offline topo maps, covering entire USA has been launched. Its the first wilderness navigation app for outdoor sports enthusiasts - biking, hiking, jogging, GeoCaching etc. Thanks to all our early adopters for trying out the early software versions of TopoSports. Embedded below is a video illustrating TopoSports in action. The initial version only supports blackberry devices and USA. We are working on adding support for more platforms and more regions. The current blackberry version supports the following feature set. Download topo maps of any quad in US for offline usage. The app lets you download topo maps of any quad in US. The maps have been re-projected for WGS84 datum and are GPS accurate for all mobile devices. There are two ways to download the maps: Search for a quad of your choice by specifying the feature or quad name. It is strongly recommended that you provide the state for which you are trying to download...