TDS announces new handheld navigation package

Tripod Data Systems (TDS) today introduced the TDS TerraGuide™ navigation package. TDS TerraGuide is a full-featured navigation package that displays digital topographic maps and nautical charts, and allows users to determine their location, plan their route and plot waypoints. The software includes elevation data to display 3-D terrain views, and its QuickChart map engine lets users quickly pan and zoom on maps.

The TDS Recon™ rugged handheld computer, a GPS CompactFlash card, an Extended CF-Cap™, and full-color 1:250,000-scale maps for the 48 states in the contiguous United States are included in the TDS TerraGuide package. USGS topo maps for individual states with Landsat satellite images are available separately.

The TDS TerraGuide navigation package offers productivity enhancements to mobile computing professionals in forestry, environmental, military and search-and-rescue fields, as well as users in outdoor recreation. Users can plan their route, track their position and review their progress for hiking, boating, snowmobiling and other pursuits.

“Instead of carrying around fragile paper maps, users can carry multiple map layers and details, plus real-time GPS data—in a rugged computer designed for tough outdoor environments,” said Dale Kyle, TDS rugged handhelds product manager. “And with the Recon, users have all the capabilities of a Windows Mobile™ device in the palm of their hand.”