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GPS SightFinder is a Windows Mobile application for Smartphones and PocketPCs that looks for sights, landmarks and other interesting places close to your current location. Using your GPS device, it can help you find all kinds of geographic objects such as buildings, towns and villages, rivers and lakes, tourist sights and many more.
Search results are listed with thumbnail images, latitude and longitude, distance from your location and a short summary. You can sort them by name or by distance from your current location. You can also browse referenced Wikipedia articles for much more information on the place of your choice.
GPS SightFinder features:
- GPS SightFinder works worldwide, it is the ideal guide for world traveling or just short trips to popular places.
- GPS SightFinder is customizable. You can configure how and how many search results are displayed. For example, search results can be sorted by name or by distance from your current location.
- Thumbnail images are available for many sites and are displayed with your search results.
- Because GPS SightFinder fetches text and pictures over the Internet from Wikipedia articles, all information is always up-to-date. New geo-referenced articles are constantly added by the community.
- Add geographical coordinates to your favorite Wikipedia article on local sites, and they will soon appear in GPS SightFinder when you visit them. Impress your visiting friends with your knowledge on-site.
- Travel light and leave your books at home! All you need is your mobile phone and GPS SightFinder.
GPS SightFinder is useful for traveling to popular places. It requires Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0, an active GPS device (built-in or via Bluetooth) and Internet connection on your device to find information about points of interest.
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