BUDDY TRACKING is a new service where friends can exchange position data and see each other on the chart in TIKI Navigator with course line and speed indicator. To see a demonstration just download the free trial, and start the Buddy simulator.

Buddy Tracking is only available in TIKI Navigator Pro.

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

Besides TIKI Navigator Pro and a GPS all you and your friends need is a mobile phone or another device with Internet connection and a genious little program called GpsGate ($ 30,-). The mobile phone must communicate with the PC for instance with BlueTooth.

HOW DOES THE SYSTEM WORK?

A group of friends register on a free server www.gpsgate.com. Each member sets up the program GpsGate to send position data to the server - and to receive position data from everybody in the group i.e. every 15 seconds. TIKI Navigator receives the data from GpsGate and puts the boats on the chart if they are close - and / or in a seperate chart window if they are far apart. Because the data is sent and received over the Internet, you can exchange position data with friends anywhere in the world.

IS IT EXPENSIVE?

No, if you have a mobile telephone that is connected to the Internet, you only pay for the amount of data that is sent or received. BuddyTracking requires only a few bytes of data. Prices will vary from country to country, but for each member in a group of 3 who is exchanging position data every 15. seconds, it will probably cost less than 2 US dollars a day if you run the system 24 hours a day.
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