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    Does anyone know of an app that would simply point you in the direction of a lat/long that is entered, something similar to a compass, but instead of always pointing north the needle will point toward the information entered?

    I've been searching for a couple of days now and all I can find are navigation apps, and the dish finder app keeps coming up no matter what I try in the search as well

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    Default Re: app that just point you in the direction of lat and long

    Perhaps something like Radar? I've used GeoBeagle: http://code.google.com/p/geobeagle/

    for Geocaching and that's purely lat/long based.

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    Combination of Radar and Location Log applications should do the trick. You need to save the lat/log as a new location first in Location Log, but from then on, you can either view a saved location in Maps or find a bearing/distance in Radar.
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    Default Re: app that just point you in the direction of lat and long

    I'll check out radar, in the meantime I found an app called maverick, it pretty well does what I am looking for but has more features than I need

    Thanks

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    Default Re: app that just point you in the direction of lat and long

    Maverick looks very full featured, and has the size to match. My solution is much more lightweight, especially as the Radar app is really a helper application, you can not run it directly, other applications can call the application with a lat/long and Radar app will dynamically display the range and direction from current GPS location to that lat/long.

    Applications like Location Log & Panoramio use Radar.
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    Default Re: app that just point you in the direction of lat and long


    Radar and Location Log where exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

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