+++ Markus Boldt [2014-10-12 17:05 +0200]:
Hi all, slowly the time goes to end, there we can buy cheap "old" PDA with Winmobile. Pockettopo works only on Win platform and small cheap devices with Windows as OS are seldom. And our devices in use are growing older. What do you all use? What alternatives are possible. I know about some so called APPS for Android, but do they work?
I saw a demo of an app at Hidden Earth which is essentially a re-implementation of pockettopo on android. The core drawing part is done, as is data transmission over bluetooth. It needs some file save/read code to be useful. Andrew knows the name of the fellow doing it - I've forgotten. Having an android app with that functionality will give us a lot more choice of hardware. There is already topodroid, but I understand it is a lot more like xtherion-lite than pockettopo, which is OK if your cave is warm and you like surveying very slowly, but for many situations the very simple lines-only/no metadata drawing style of pockettopo makes a lot of sense. I am certainly very keen to see a free software implementation of pockettopo. It might even make me buy an android device :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/