About us

GPS Pilot, SARL is a French leading start-up offering innovative and exciting solutions to hand held computers in the Mobile Information, Global Positioning System and Mapping technologies.

Our services are dedicated to worldwide customers and we provide several Palm™-GPS applications for personal uses such as digital atlas and tracking systems for recreational activities, flight planning and in-flight navigation tools, vehicle navigation system, ...

GPS Pilot supports wireless –(or via modem) web access to world wide pertinent geographical internet content.

GPS product line-up is dedicated to Palm OS end-users. Check out our software, all of them are delivered in trial mode. Those FREE demo versions are fully functional with little restrictions. For full usage, register your version through our Buy on-line section.

• GPS Pilot Compass™: Live compass + odometer and speedometer functions
  Connect most Global Positioning Systems (the NMEA 0183v2 standard) to your PDA and get a real life compass - current location, elevation, speed, and direction…- plus odometer functions.
   
• GPS Pilot Atlas™: Digital Atlas to plan and pinpoint trips
  Travel around the world with the correct maps in front of you! Get on-line maps anywhere, at anytime; use topographical, aeronautical, marine, road street level digital maps or scan paper maps.
  Connect a GPS to pinpoint position and heading on maps.
   
• GPS Pilot Tracker™: Navigation system with tracks logging
  Explore or record your travels for future reference: create road books, track your path, reuse and share trails, ... in order to extend, correct, or even build custom maps. Visualize tracks on maps.
  With a GPS receiver, pinpoint position and heading on maps; record automatically your moves and follow your tracks on way back. Export track logs to PCs for exploitation in GIS applications. Best for wilderness or remote areas.
   
• GPS Pilot Fly™: Dynamic pre and in-flight navigation tools
  Aviation enthusiasts, prepare dynamic multi leg flight plans and use them while flying. Make flight plans based on POIs -airports, navaids, cities,…- and get automatic calculation of headings, winds, time and fuel!
  In the air, connect a GPS and follow your course on maps and legs with automatic recalculation of heading, destination, ...
  This application is very useful for cars, boats, etc any trips in which vehicle specificities and direction distortion are important
   
• GPS Pilot TripPilot™: Route planner with driving direction on interactive maps
  Plan your journey: locate yourself, set your destination and get your route highlighted on overview and turn-by-turn maps plus straightforward directions.
  USA, Canada and European streets coverage, directions in 11 major languages.
  + GPS connected: : follow your progress on maps and itineraries + automatic guidance to destination

We offer Windows PC-based tool for maps and Point Of Interests management:

• GPS Pilot Cartographer™: Convert maps to PDA format
  Utility to construct your own world maps database. On desktop machines, convert digital maps (Internet and digital atlases, scanned paper maps, …) to be GPS Pilot ready. Hot sync them on your PDA, and hit the road with GPS Pilot Atlas, Tracker or Fly.
   
• GPS Pilot Topographer™: Transfer P.O.I.s data between PDA and external sources.
  Utility to manage GPS Pilot POIs databases on desktop machines. Allows POIs transfer databases between a PC machines and a Palm device: in order to import new POIs from a text file to your PDA or export them to be used by GIS applications.

We also develop specific B2B solutions and are the author of the Heineken BarTrek Palm™ application, which offers to Heineken worldwide travellers and beer tasters, bars locations in major cities of the world.

Heineken, Amsterdam (Henk Dinkelaar), Together with IBM, Palm Computing, GPS Pilot and MapQuest, Heineken have developed BarTrek™, which helps you find the shortest distance to the nearest pub that serves the world's favorite brew. BarTrek™ has been developed to allow users, through the combination of a Palm Computing device and a GPS (Global Positioning System) to find Heineken beer wherever you might be. Digital maps indicating the position of selected pubs are downloaded to the device. Once on the road, it is then possible to find your way there through a connection to the GPS.

In the past years, we have acquired notoriety in our field of expertise, offering quality in our software and customer service. With the democratisation of the wireless and GPS technologies, the deployment of their integration on PDA devices, GPS Pilot services are responding to growing market needs by delivering access to international geographical data, in a non-obstructive and unrestrictive way.

GPS Pilot software is written for the Palm Computing Platform -Palm OS 3.5 minimum (high resolution screen support). For GPS navigation assistance, Our applications support most GPS devices : any NMEA0183 v2.0 or higher compatible GPS devices as well as the Delorme Earthmate™ proprietary protocol. For on-line cartography, our products are compliant to Smartphone, wireless connection, land modem or PC-Internet gateway (MocchaPPP, SoftickPPP).