Aurora GPS is a Palm-powered application which will provide a range of GPS features to your Palm-powered PDA with a GPS adaptaor. The concept of Aurora GPS is to provide the most important features for navigation in an easy-to-use and low-cost application with a scale appropriate for a Palm PDA.

While there are a number of high-end Palm applications with full maps and lists of hotels, gas stations, etc. and which can give you driving instructions, this is often more than many people need. It is also useless when using GPS for flying or hiking in the country.

Aurora GPS attempts to be a more general-purpose application that can be used by drivers, flyers, and hikers alike. The user may create his or her own "maps" by entering the waypoints that he desires, or individual waypoint databases may be shared. Routes can be defined between waypoints regardless of whether the waypoints are "connected" by a road, a hiking trail, or a flight route.

Further, the application and its accompanying databases were designed from the beginning to make efficient use of memory. Some of the "high-end" GPS applications for the Palm can come with as many as 4 CD-ROMs with information for the entire United States, but you can't load more than a small subset of this onto your Palm at any given moment due to memory restrictions. It seems these applications were designed for the PC and crammed into the Palm. The waypoints and route databases created by Aurora GPS are as small as possible so that you'll be able to load all the important databases you're interested in without using up all the memory on your Palm.