Settings & preferences

Night light

Red text on dark backgound. Reduces eye strain, minimizes night vision loss.

dddmmss VIEW format

Present co-ordinates in degrees/minutes/seconds e.g. E174°20′58.123′ by default.

dddmmss EDIT format

Present co-ordinates in degrees/minutes/seconds e.g. E174°20′58.123′ by default.

Speak distance and bearing?

Distance and bearing to destination will be spoken aloud on media channel

Speak distance/bearing interval

Specify minimum interval (seconds) between spoken directions

Speak distance threshold?

Minimum distance (meters) moved before next spoken notification. (Prevents spoken directions when semi-stationary.)

Speak destination name?

Check this if you want destination waypoint name spoken aloud.

Hide "GPS disabled" warnings

Use this if your GPS hardware was deliberately disabled via Settings>Location Services

Confirm Settings calls

(Or avoid confirmation calls to Settings>Location Services etc.)

Hide "Satellites=" message

(Or get a message every time the number of detected satellites changes.)

Show SQLite row identity

Causes display of the database internal primary key value (_id column)

'Quick map' bounds radius (meters)

A circle with this radius will be centered on the only point in a single-point map.

Default export file name

A value to be proposed when exporting waypoints, tracks and routes. eg: ABC.gpx or DEF.xml

Expose sample (♥) .gpx files

Allows analysis/import of several built-in sample GPX-format files.

Expose sample (♥) .kv files

Allows importation of several built-in sample key-value files.

XML tag conversion (Import)

Allows non-GPX-architected XML tags to be imported to user-defined columns

XML tag conversion (Export)

Allows non-GPX-architected XML tags to be exported from user-defined columns

XML tag rejection (Import)

Allows certain (explicitly-defined) XML tags to be ignored during import

user0-7 visibility during EDIT

0=hide 1=show 2=show with spinner. Example: '12110000' shows user0-3 but a spinner for user1 only.

user_i/r EDITable?

Check to edit 'user_i' and 'user_r' fields.

Image fields EDITable?

Check to edit 'imgId' and 'imgPath' fields.

hdop/vdop fields EDITable?

Check to edit 'hdop' and 'vdop' fields. (Use of Horizontal/Vertical Dilution Of Precision is uncommon.)

Last selected Destination

(Information only)

Offline Mode

GPS hardware is not consuming power. (Information only)

Geoid of last saved point.

The displayed value was subtracted from the raw GPS altitude. See wikipedia "Geoid" and "EGM96". (Information only.)

Magnetic deviation. ('declination')

Calculated value for local magnetic deviation. Added to true bearing to produce magnetic (ie 'compass') bearing. (Information only.)