A Study on Geodata Trace of Navigation Application in Smart Devices

Nowadays, smart devices are the target of the digital forensic investigation. Among various smart devices, we can obtain much information from smart phone which is provided with continuous power and used for data communication. This paper deals with the traces to be left in Android smart phones after using the navigation applications with the GPS function. We selected navigation applications(domestic and overseas) which have a high number of download times, anaylzed them and discussed the meaning of the analysis result in digital forensic investigation.