Around Useful Navigation

Around Useful Navigation app is designed to help you easily locate nearby places such as shops, restaurants, tourist attractions, and other facilities based on your current GPS location or any center point!
This app can enhance your sense of direction as you hold a smartphone and view the augmented reality (AR) screen!

*** The Around Useful Navigation series, which includes this app, has already been downloaded over 500,000 times on both iOS and Android platforms!***

Introducing the "Around Useful Navigation" app, provided by katapu.net, which offers convenient information around your current location. With this app, you can easily search for facilities and shops in your immediate surroundings.

Using the app is incredibly easy. Simply download and launch the app, and if you want to search for information around your current location, just allow access to your location. Then, you'll be able to view various information for facilities such as convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, medical facilities, parks, and more.

The best thing about this app is that it's completely free of charge. There's no need for special registration or a paid plan to use the app, so anyone can easily download and use it.

As you can see, "Around Useful Navigation" is a user-friendly app that allows you to easily search for information in your immediate surroundings. We encourage you to download the app and start conveniently accessing useful information around you.

--- App features ---
○ A unique user interface that displays three screens in tandem: an AR screen, a map screen, and a store/facility list menu screen.
○ The AR screen and arrow direction navigation show the direction of the desired facility (on smartphones and tablets equipped with an electronic compass).
○ It provides easy-to-understand search results for nearby facilities based on the current location (blue marble) and the search center location (orange marble).
- Use the "current" button in the upper right to move to your current location. - Use the "center" button in the upper part to set the center of the map to the search center.
- Information is easy to understand because the search results for shops and facilities from the current location or the search center are displayed in order of proximity.
- You can grasp the information around the current location or any specified search center by using it to add the desired shop or facility to your favorites more accurately.
- For example, in a TV gourmet special, if you enter "@○○ station" in the search window beforehand for "○○ station area information!" and move the search center to the vicinity of ○○ station, you can easily find the desired shop by searching by name and adding it to your favorites.
〇 By using the detail button, you can access information about shops or facilities and easily search for details using keywords related to those shops or facilities.
- The address-linked search function at the bottom of the detailed screen makes it easy to narrow down your search results.
〇 Use the navigation button to display the route from your current location or the search center to your destination.
〇 From version 3.0.0, you can switch between Google Maps and offline maps by clicking the "G" <=> "O" button at the top of the screen. You can download offline maps from the settings.
〇 The offline KML function allows you to download and import KML files (spot information files) from the web and view them offline in the Around Useful Navigation.

Note:
〇 Offline map download:
- You can download offline maps from the settings. If you want to save map files of 8GB or more on an external SD card, format the microSD card in exFAT format instead of FAT32.

〇 Offline maps provided by:
©Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
©OpenStreetMap contributors