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.<br>
<br>My tool for getting existing Survex data into PocketTopo, and getting data from the surveying trip into Survex from the PDA is detailed here:<br><a href="http://www.darkgem.com/wscc/caving-talk/index.php?title=CaveSurveyDataConverter">http://www.darkgem.com/wscc/caving-talk/index.php?title=CaveSurveyDataConverter</a><br>
<br>Footleg<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/20 Wookey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wookey@wookware.org">wookey@wookware.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
+++ Guido Verhoeven [2009-04-20 13:27 +0200]:<br>
<div class="im">> Hello<br>
><br>
> Do you know about Auriga from Luc Le Blanc? This runs on a Palm. (see:<br>
</div>> [1]<a href="http://www.speleo.qc.ca/auriga/" target="_blank">http://www.speleo.qc.ca/auriga/</a>)<br>
<br>
Yes. At the CSG meet yesterday we used a distoX with both Auriga and<br>
pockettopo, and compared with a SAP+Disto and conventional<br>
instruments. i.e we surveyed the same route 4 times with 4<br>
methods/teams at once and had 6 laser measures on one trip :-)<br>
<br>
I also worked on the data import from pockettopo to Therion (not quite<br>
finished), as a variation on the existing pt2pdf script. I have not<br>
yet tried the auriga import because I failed to extract data from it.<br>
<br>
This work will be reported in in more detail in Compass Points, but<br>
various issues arose to do with platform support, calibration,<br>
bluetooth syncing, data transfer, distoX-disto integration, auriga<br>
focus bug and data import. The SAP/conventional surveyors were still<br>
much faster by the time we had made all our computers work, but even<br>
so the process, especially with pockettopo, is very powerful and<br>
promising, and is clearly the way to go. But it does still need a bit<br>
of work to reduce the pain and faffing :-)<br>
<br>
Thanks to all involved for very useful excercise and especially Svein<br>
and Torsten for bringing lots of cool toys from Norway.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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