Geovative Solutions GeoTours Mobile v1.0.4.*******-DVTPDA

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Geovative.Solutions.GeoTours.Mobile.v1.0.4.*******-DVTPDA

GeoTours Mobile plays GPS tour guides, fully supports GPs eXchange (.gpx) data with related audio (.mp3) and image (.jpg) content, and GeoTours Mobile is all you need to use GPS maps from TravelByGPS.com on your GPS-enabled Windows Mobile device.

Quick Instruction

Important: The installation and use of GeoTours Mobile on a Windows Mobile device assumes that you are able to connect to your device from your PC and that you have dotNET framework 2.0 previously installed on your PC and dotNET Compact framework 2.0 on your mobile device. See detailed installation instructions if you have questions about these requirements.

Install Software:

First connect you mobile device to your PC then:

Click on free trial link.
Save installation program to your desktop.
Run the installation program.
Allow the installation program to download the setup program.
Follow the GeoTours Mobile Setup Wizard.
Complete additional steps on your mobile device.

Get Data:

Search travelbygps.com.
Download free GPS map in GPs eXchange (.gpx) or compressed (.zip) file format
Copy files to Mobile Device/Storage Card.

Play:

Load tour.
Start tour.

Note: GeoTours Mobile software is provided as a free trial. The trial program is the same as full version, except that the number of tour points is limited to 5 and audio play is limited to 10 sec. The trial version is unlocked by manually entering a license key code. Obtain the license key code when you purchase the program.

Detailed Instructions

If you have previously connected your Windows Mobile device to your PC, and already have the dotNET Framework installed on your PC and your mobile device, then you are ready to proceed with GeoTours Mobile software installation. If you do not know if you are ready, proceed with the installation anyway. If the installation fails because you need to install other software, the installation program will tell you what you need to do and additional information is provided in the installation troubleshooting section.

Software Installation

1). Click on free trial link.
GeoTours Mobile software is downloaded from secure servers at regnow.com ( a Digital River company).
Click the free trial link to start the download process. Your computer will ask you whether to save or run the installation program. You want to save the installation program.

2). Save the installation program to your desktop. Of course you can save it elsewhere, just remember where you saved it.

3). Run the installation program.
Now locate the program on your computer and double-click the program icon. Your computer may prompt you with a security warning, asking if you want to run the program. Run the program. If you are curious, the publisher is Geovative Solutions LLC (geovative.com).

4). Allow the installation program to download the setup program.
The installation program must connect to the internet (DNS Server) in order to download the GeoTours Mobile setup program. Your computer may notify you that the program is attempting to connect. Allow program to connect.

5) Follow the GeoTours Mobile Setup Wizard.

6) Complete additional steps on your mobile device.

The installation program will be completed when you acknowledge the publisher on your mobile device. You may see a screen on your device which stats that "The program is from on unknown publisher." You must select "Yes" to continue the installation on your device.
Program installation will be successful, assuming that you have .NET Framework installed and Windows CE Application installed. If the program does not install for these reasons, see the installation troubleshooting section below.

Get Data

Note: Use of data storage card (i.e. SD Card) is highly recommended for storing GPS tours on your mobile device. These instructions assume you have a storage card inserted in your mobile device. If you do not have a storage card, you may proceed with these instructions, taking note below.
First, connect your windows mobile device to your computer, then:

1) Search TravelByGPS.com
TravelByGPS.com provides GPS data for a variety of locations and appilications. Search TravelByGPS.com to find the data you are intersted in.

2) Download the GPS data in GPs eXchange (.gpx) or compressed (.zip) file format.
Note: GPs eXchange (.gpx) files do not have imbeded auido and images. Tour guides that have audio and images are downloaded in (.zip) compressed file format which bundles the .gpx files with a data folder where the the image and audio files are located. GeoTours Mobile will play any gpx file, but if you want to experience all the features of this software you will want to download a tour guide that includes images and audio. All pages linked from travelbygps.com/TourGuide.php have downloadable tour guides that include images and audio.
Click on the GPS data download link and save the file to your desktop. If you use Internet Explorer, look for the "Save as.." menu item under the "Page" tool. You may also right-click on the link to bring up the "Save as..." or "Save Target As..." menu items.If all you see is a page of what looks like computer code, that is probably the .gpx file, which you must save to your computer.

Once you have the file saved to your computer, locate it and check the file type. If you downloaded a GPs eXchange (.gpx) file, make certain that it retained the .gpx file type extension when it was saved to your computer. If you downloaded a compressed (.zip) file you must extract the contents.
If you downloaded a compressed (.zip) file, use WinZip or other decompression utility to extract the contents. Extract the contents of the zip file to your desktop.

3) Copy files to Mobile Device/Storage Card/GeoTours
First, verify that you have, or create if necesary, a GeoTours folder on your storage card (see screenshot below), then:
Locate the .gpx file you saved to your computer. Copy the .gpx file and data folder (if any). Paste all files on your mobile device/storage card. Below is a screenshot of Windows Explorer after copying files to mobile device.

Note that .gpx files and data are located in the GeoTours directory. The GeoTours Mobile program settings are set to look for this directory on the storage card. If you do not have a storage card you can create a GeoTours directory on your device and change the settings from within the GeoTours program to look for GeoTours directory on your device instead of on your storage card. Eventually you will want a storage card. See the hardware page for storage cards offered at Amazon.com

Playing Tours

Once you have GeoTours on your device, you can launch the program to become familiar with the screens. The main screen is show here at right. You may view the other screens by pressing the "Next >" button, or use the touch screen to select the screens by their tabs: Main, Locations, Viewer, GPS, and Settings.
To experience most of the program features, you will need to load a tour data.

1) Load Tour
Touch the "Load Tour" button or select this command from the "File" menu.
The trial version is restricted to loading only the first five (5) tour locations. The trial version also restricts the duration of audio to 15 seconds. When you purchase the software you will receive a licence code key to unlock all the features.

Once you load a tour, the "Start Tour" button is enabled.

2) Start Tour
Once you start a tour, AGeoTours Mobile connects to your GPS receiver and displays the distance and direction to each tour location.

When you reach a tour location, the associated media (audio, image, and text) is displayed and the audio starts to play automatically.

If there is a text description for the tour location, it can be viewed by clicking the more button.

You can choose your units, location radius (proximity), media directory, if you want the device to prevent going into standby during a tour, if you'd like an audio alert to be played upon arriving at a non-audio tour location, and your GPS receiver settings.

During a tour, you can view your GPS information on the GPS screen.

Installation Troubleshooting

Windows Mobile

GeoTours Mobile was developed for PDAs and smartphones running Windows Mobile software. In order to install GeoTours Mobile software on your device you must be able to connect to it. If during the installation of GeoTours Mobile software you saw a warning like this

You must install ActiveSync (for computers running Windows XP) or Windows Mobile Device Center (for computers running Window Vista).
For more information about installing ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center, visit [Only Registered users can see links . Click Here To Register...]
dotNET Installation

If you saw a message like this:

you must install because the .NET ("dotNET") Framework for you PC.
For more information about installing the dotNET Framework, visit
[Only Registered users can see links . Click Here To Register...]
Run the GeoTours Mobile setup program again, after installing dotNET.
dotNET Compact Installation

If you received a ".NET CF Initialization Error" on your mobile device when attempting to run the GeoTours Mobile program, then you must install the .NET Compact Framework.
For more information about installing the dotNET Compact Framework, visit
[Only Registered users can see links . Click Here To Register...]
You do not have to reinstall GeoTours Mobile after installing the dotNET Compact Framework

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http://rs348gc2.rapidshare.com/files/86334138/Geovative.Solutions.GeoTours.Mobile.v1.0.4.Ckd-DVTPDA.rar

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