GPS Compass Basic was a tools app developed by embedia. It was removed from Google Play Jul 22, 2018 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
GPS Compass Basic had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
GPS Compass Basic was rated 3.90 out of 5 stars, based on 670 ratings.
App Information
GPS Compass Basic was free to download. The APK download size was 2.87 MB. The last available version was 1.20. The last update was on February 2, 2016.
Technical Requirements
GPS Compass Basic required Android 1.6+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play March 2011.
Description
GPS Compass is a small but complete navigation tool, it leverages on both magnetic compass and GPS to give you always the most accurate information available.
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★★★★★
Dave Welsh Works for me! Potentially very useful capability to mark a new waypoint on map by taking two bearings on a distant object or landmark, but if using the magnetic compass function you have to be very careful with phone alignment to be sure of getting an accurate convergence point of the bearing lines. I have had successes and failures, I think the further apart are the two points from which bearings are taken, the better. Let's face it, apart from the GPS location feature, which is amazingly accurate. a mobile phone is not really a high precision navigational instrument, but this app does a very good and worthwhile job with the functionality available.
★★★★★
Best vehicle compass! Over the past months I've tried pretty much all the compass apps for use in a my works van. The magnetic ones don't work with all the metal in the dash and the GPS ones trend to be too detailed or the numbers too small. This one I'd nice, clear and simple, and goes into GPS mode over 5KM/H. It's very accurate and the speed is very clear too. Brilliant! Simply the best!
★★☆☆☆
Gps doesn't turn off when you exit the app. Too bad, I really wanted to like this app.
★★☆☆☆
No settings What makes a compass work isn't just magnatite orienting to the magnetic North pole but a person's orientation to the compass. This app doesn't permit this orientation thereby, always reading the same direction, regardless of position change.
★★☆☆☆
Malfunctioned when I really needed it to work This app does not correctly take phone orientation into account. It managed to fool me while I was location scouting and I needed to establish true directions. If the phone is relatively flat like you would hold a compass, it can freak out and give false directions. Investigating further after some of my scouting photos were off by quite a bit in direction, I determined this app gave wrong results where others gave correct results. Things were salvageable but I wound up with some egg on my face for using this.
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