The Fast Track GPS Tool
Free App
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About The Fast Track GPS Tool
The Fast Track app is a powerful tool for outdoor and sailing activities.
It provides you with:
- Waypoints, tracks and routes in GPX format
- Offline and Image Maps
- Weather Forecast
- Voice notifications
- Route and waypoint navigation
- Proximity alerts
- Navigation analysis
For sailors the fast track provides:
- Sailing specific indicators as: VMG, Bearing, Course, Deviance, …
- Leg comparison. When choosing a destination The Fast track app will automatically
determine the theoretical wind of direction as upwind or downwind from your current position. Each time the boat crosses this direction, The Fast Track app will assume the boat's tacking or gybing. And creates a new leg. You can also enter the current wind direction.
- A time to line tool, synchronized with the regatta chronometer, keeping you informed with estimated time to the start line. So you can make a perfect start!
You can find our blog at http://nautkaapps.wordpress.com
Before sailing The Fast Track app, we strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the app in the simulation mode, where you will be provided with the necessary buttons to simulate your boat's speed and bearing.
We recommend you to use a bluetooth external GPS antenna to enhance the accuracy of the application and get the better results.
Your comments & reviews are welcome, they help enhance the product visibility and future improvements. Thus, if you like The Fast Track, please rate it in Google Play. If you don't like it please provide some description or email us directly, so we can take it into account and fix it in future releases. If a new release solves some of your previous issues we will really appreciate if you test it again and re-evaluate it.
Special Thanks to:
Bálint László, for his contributions, ideas & hungarian language translations
Teresa Albelda & Yolanda Barranco for the French translation
http://foro.latabernadelpuerto.com/portal.php
http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php
for their continuous contributions & ideas to this product
Anders Ericsson for his great tutorial about Android Line Charts:
http://www.jayway.com/2012/08/29/creating-custom-android-views-part-3-animating-your-custom-views-smoothly/
osmdroid team:
https://code.google.com/p/osmdroid/
https://unsplash.com/
for those incredible images
It provides you with:
- Waypoints, tracks and routes in GPX format
- Offline and Image Maps
- Weather Forecast
- Voice notifications
- Route and waypoint navigation
- Proximity alerts
- Navigation analysis
For sailors the fast track provides:
- Sailing specific indicators as: VMG, Bearing, Course, Deviance, …
- Leg comparison. When choosing a destination The Fast track app will automatically
determine the theoretical wind of direction as upwind or downwind from your current position. Each time the boat crosses this direction, The Fast Track app will assume the boat's tacking or gybing. And creates a new leg. You can also enter the current wind direction.
- A time to line tool, synchronized with the regatta chronometer, keeping you informed with estimated time to the start line. So you can make a perfect start!
You can find our blog at http://nautkaapps.wordpress.com
Before sailing The Fast Track app, we strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the app in the simulation mode, where you will be provided with the necessary buttons to simulate your boat's speed and bearing.
We recommend you to use a bluetooth external GPS antenna to enhance the accuracy of the application and get the better results.
Your comments & reviews are welcome, they help enhance the product visibility and future improvements. Thus, if you like The Fast Track, please rate it in Google Play. If you don't like it please provide some description or email us directly, so we can take it into account and fix it in future releases. If a new release solves some of your previous issues we will really appreciate if you test it again and re-evaluate it.
Special Thanks to:
Bálint László, for his contributions, ideas & hungarian language translations
Teresa Albelda & Yolanda Barranco for the French translation
http://foro.latabernadelpuerto.com/portal.php
http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php
for their continuous contributions & ideas to this product
Anders Ericsson for his great tutorial about Android Line Charts:
http://www.jayway.com/2012/08/29/creating-custom-android-views-part-3-animating-your-custom-views-smoothly/
osmdroid team:
https://code.google.com/p/osmdroid/
https://unsplash.com/
for those incredible images
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Open Street Maps and Open Cycle Maps download for offline usage. New download button in the map view will download your current map view. You can download a map into a new file or extend an existing one.
Once you open a downloaded map you can improve it by clicking the new extend map button.
Open Street Maps and Open Cycle Maps download for offline usage. New download button in the map view will download your current map view. You can download a map into a new file or extend an existing one.
Once you open a downloaded map you can improve it by clicking the new extend map button.
Version update The Fast Track GPS Tool was updated to version 8.5
More downloads The Fast Track GPS Tool reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update The Fast Track GPS Tool was updated to version 8.2
Name changed Name changed! The Fast Track Sailing Tactics now is known as The Fast Track GPS Tool.
What are users saying about The Fast Track GPS Tool
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Great app
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Kewl app
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Would be good to have night color theme also. At night it is too bright.
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Offshore fishing captain
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Good application
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Excelente
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I love the app especially the lay line facility. It's easy to use even during a race. It would be good if you could switch (not-auto) between landscape and portrait mode as I like to mount my HTC One on the tiller. Also the option of white characters on black background might improve visibility in high sunshine situations.
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I was pleasantly surprised by how much functionality this app has. More than I will use as a weekend boater. I particularly like how you can choose your map background such as Google maps. Great app!
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More precise and more options. More Friendly to use than the gps system on my sail boat. Plan to get a large tablet, download this fastrack and use it on my boat
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Easy to use. Would love to see a raxe start countdown timer even if i do notload waypoints EDIT: Darn fast response from support. And now I know how to access the timer! Whoa!. Rating adjusted to 5*
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Noce app, great job !
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Better Improvements! Thank you!
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Best free sailing app I have found
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So far has improved my Wet Wednesdays. Very happy.
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Good
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Good for tow boating. Only thing is the locks need updated in my area. There is one lock not showing up on the map. Other then that its an amazing app to know how far you have to go.
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Wish you could play your course back with speed info displayed
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This app does everything what my old Garmin GPS was doing
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I use this for backup when need to report to ATC.
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Good for sailing around at east asia
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Easy to use and like the downloadable map layers.
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Great App. Would like to see Depths on Map. Would be nice to have option to turn off or on.
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It has most of what u need
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Good for Maldives
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Loved it. Very accurate
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I like the new image but "ORIENTATION sensor not found" display on my screan even if I switch off the apps.
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I've tried many of navigation apps some free, some paid for I can honestly say this app does everything I need it to do. The only way this app gets better is with buoy information and up to date sea state.
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With new function on how to round a way point (port / starboard) and previous voice notification. I can set the course and don't need to take a look at the phone for all course information. It simply is the best app for Android. Can't speak for iOS, as I don't have one.
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Good for plotting but I can't get a total nautical miles that I planned out for my route. Other than that. .. not too bad.
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Have been using this application for quite some time. No other similar application has remained on my android phone for more than a couple of weeks. I really love its voice notifications while sailing, the statistics, chart and track at the end:) Max speed is often grossly exaggerated:( Glad that persistent 'Orientation sensor not found" glitch has been sorted out.
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Everything looked fine until i reviewed my journey. 147 mph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deleted!
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Please make the numerals thicker having trouble seeing them mounted on the mast for everyone
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Very good
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Great app
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Not a bad app, helps whrn I'm sailing. It would be better if it would rotate to landscape...I strap my S3 to my wrist while sailing and i have to twist my whole arm so that the phone is flat and pointing in the direction of travel to get an accurate readout.
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Power intensive which limits it somewhat.
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Amazing
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So far so good....
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Add an option for a race start countdown to a time on the phone clock, for example, start time in a pursuit race is 13:27 hours.
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Very usefull