[Therion] DistoX and PocketTopo with Therion

[Footleg]

Just returned from Matienzo exedition in Spain using a DistoX with
PocketTopo on a Windows Mobile PDA. I found it to be a very powerful and
time saving way to survey. Sketching underground is still the rate limiting
step, but being able to extract the data (into Survex in my case) and get a
scale survey printed out within minutes after the trip was superb.

My tool for getting existing Survex data into PocketTopo, and getting data
from the surveying trip into Survex from the PDA is detailed here:
http://www.darkgem.com/wscc/caving-talk/index.php?title=CaveSurveyDataConverter

Footleg

2009/4/20 Wookey <wookey at wookware.org>

> +++ Guido Verhoeven [2009-04-20 13:27 +0200]:
> >    Hello
> >
> >    Do you know about Auriga from Luc Le Blanc? This runs on a Palm. (see:
> >    [1]http://www.speleo.qc.ca/auriga/)
>
> Yes. At the CSG meet yesterday we used a distoX with both Auriga and
> pockettopo, and compared with a SAP+Disto and conventional
> instruments. i.e we surveyed the same route 4 times with 4
> methods/teams at once and had 6 laser measures on one trip :-)
>
> I also worked on the data import from pockettopo to Therion (not quite
> finished), as a variation on the existing pt2pdf script. I have not
> yet tried the auriga import because I failed to extract data from it.
>
> This work will be reported in in more detail in Compass Points, but
> various issues arose to do with platform support, calibration,
> bluetooth syncing, data transfer, distoX-disto integration, auriga
> focus bug and data import. The SAP/conventional surveyors were still
> much faster by the time we had made all our computers work, but even
> so the process, especially with pockettopo, is very powerful and
> promising, and is clearly the way to go. But it does still need a bit
> of work to reduce the pain and faffing :-)
>
> Thanks to all involved for very useful excercise and especially Svein
> and Torsten for bringing lots of cool toys from Norway.
>
> Wookey
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