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This is useful for reporting or locatingwildfires, for landowners, firefighters, land surveyors,boaters,pilots and anyone wanting to know the coordinates of aremote pointwithout going there: Hikers, geocachers, scientificresearch,rangers, search and rescue, amateur radio directionfinding (ARDF,transmitter hunting), location of radio taggedanimals. No cellphone coverage needed! No data plan needed, exceptif you choose toemail the info to someone.Triangulate uses your built-in GPS and compass on a cameraviewto get 2 points and bearings from each. It then computesthelocation you are pointing at. The 3 points and linesconnectingthem can then be displayed with your choice of mappingprogram(using KML files) , online or offline, for both mobile anddesktopcomputers. This makes it easy to determine which road isbest toget to the computed remote point. Here is a sample map:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=208093473308607160239.0004b82ddcc76689ba82a"I saw a real use for this app to save lives, property, andnaturesince I almost died when my 2 houses burned down in awildfire.Firefighters took hours to determine where the fire waslocated andhow to get there, because the calls to 911 were notgiving enoughinfo.Optimized for phones and tablets.Phone reception or Internet access is not required to usetheapp. Designed so you can have someone call, radio, or emailtoreport their GPS coordinates and their compass bearing for the2ndpoint. If the other person has the Triangulate app they caneasilyhit 1 button to collect, and 1 button to email their locationandbearing. 1 point and bearing is enough info to report a wildfireto911, but if you get another bearing from >1000 feet (~300m)awayits even better since the app can compute a location for theremotepoint.Firefighters who have this app can easily take the datafrommultiple reports, even enter data from those who don't havethisapp, using an old fashioned compass or handheld GPS, to locatethefire much easier and less error prone than the old methodofgetting out paper maps, compass, and plotting the positionsanddrawing lines to find the intersection.Designed for international use: distances in feet or meters.Displays your GPS coordinates, number of satellites in view,andthe accuracy of your position. Automatically computesthedeclination at your location to use True North (moreaccurate)compass bearings. You can use an old fashioned compass andenterthe bearings.It has an option to choose between using the camera sight forthecompass (default), or sight across the face of the phone togetbetter accuracy for phones where you have a small camera orpoorvisibility.Here is a link to the help instructions included in the app,tosee more details about how it works:http://www.xyzworks.com/triangulateHelp.htmYou can repeat and get bearings from more than 2 points andviewthem as overlays on a map too. That's why it saves the data asKMLfiles so you can save as many bearings as you like and view themonthe phone or desktop machine using many map programs, or emailthemto view with a bigger screen on desktop google maps.See XYZworks entire line of land surveying, data collection,andconstruction software at:www.xyzworks.com