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Whenever you buy a GPS, they come with preloaded maps, basically if you buy one in the United States, you will get maps of the U.S., and neighboring countries and if you buy a GPS in Europe, you will get European maps. What happens if maps get updated? To update GPS maps it usually costs a lot of money, and if you move far away you will need a new GPS. This new service aims at stealing maps from sites and saves it and uses those. You would think such a service would cost a lot of money, but in fact, it only costs $9.

Dubbed MapCapt, it had already been released, but it probably wasn’t too popular, and now the creators have released version 2.0. How this works: basically, it scrolls, copies, and saves maps from map sites such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and any other mapping service. Then, it will save it as a bitmap file and it will then show on your GPS. Now, in case you don’t want to pay $9 for this, you can opt to get the free version, which basically only allows you to scroll horizontally, without any vertical scrolling. Yes, I’m as confused as you are, I don’t see why anyone would want the free version. For $9 or 6 Euros, there are no limitations to scrolling, and it comes with the ability to follow roads with manual scrolling and it even comes with an auto-correct function which would make sure everything is aligned correctly.

I think this is pretty cool, I just wonder how well it can take in maps and would Google or Yahoo do anything to stop this.

Via [NaviGadget]