I'm a pilot and I cross the atlantic ocean every week. With nav software like Sygic and a BT mouse I can see myself on an actual moving map display on my phone! But... I can't tell if I am on the right 'track' or not. We fly from coordinate to coordinate over the atlantic, like from 45N30W to say 43N40W or something going west, but I want to see if I really am on the right line between those coordinates.

I'm looking for software that can draw lines on a map display between coordinates and show my position on hat map in real time too. Software like that exists, but only for the PC (Jeppview) and I'd like to have that on my phone.

How cool would that be? My phone would be more accurate navigating that the damn airplane!

Anybody?

I don't see any reason why Garmin Mobile XT wouldn't do what you want, it will show you a route between 2 coordinates that in the absence of roads generates a quick error message about it not finding roads to route you along which you ignore and it then draws a perfectly straight line between the 2 points and displays your live position in relation to it. Just like on the ocean surface navigating with Bluechart loaded instead of city navigator, it draws a perfectly straight line from my current position to my fishing spot and I just zip along it. The only thing you will need to watch is which maps you use or it will draw a route along the roads! Bluechart will solve some of it as you would be over water presumably sometimes (just read above again, you are over water a lot so Bluechart is perfect!!) but as for over land well you may need a roadless map so it won't route along them? Maybe mostly you could get by with the basemap for that, try it. Good luck. (edit, yes that should all work very satisfactorily I believe!!)

Ok here's a screenshot of Garmin MobilePC doing exactly what you want with the world basemap and Bluechart loaded. The first coordinate is always going to be your current live gps fix position, as you can see I was on land at the time and the goto coordinate can be anything you want. XT for the phone works exactly the same way.


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Its a nice, beautiful straight line!

I'd really like to thank you for your effort in this matter, I would NEVER have thought of Garmin to be able to do this. I honestly don't know why, I guess because it seems to 'professional' to me to do this or something.
I was searching throught he smaller somewhat amateuristic programs to see if anyone had thought of it but besides Efficasoft I had no luck (that can do it all, add coordinate waypoints, show tracks and speed in knots except draw the lines...)

I'll dive straight in to it! Thanks a bunch ;)