Thursday, June 21, 2012

TopoDroid: Android App for Cave Surveying with DistoX

TopoDroid is an Android app for cave surveying. The survey data are downloaded from a DistoX or they can be entered manually. Sketches of the cave are drawn freehand around the centerline skeleton.

The survey data can be exported in Therion format. Survex, Compass and VisualTopo file export is also supported. Drawings are saved as Therion "th2" files. They can be also exported as PNG image files.
TopoDroid can toggle the DistoX calibration mode, compute calibrations, and upload the calibration coefficients onto a DistoX.

TopoDroid is designed to take data and notes, and to draw sketches in the cave, one survey at a time. It does not fully manage complex cave survey projects. It relies on the Cave3D app to display the 3D presentation of the centerline of the survey.

TopoDroid uses a linear workflow model, with two lines of work: one for surveys and the other for calibrations. TopoDroid main window displays the list of surveys or that of calibrations. The user switches between the two by tapping on the top tabs. There are menus to create a new survey or calibration, to import one, and to manage the DistoX devices.

Check out the project page at : http://code.google.com/p/topolinux/wiki/TopoDroid




Thursday, June 21, 2012

TopoDroid: Android App for Cave Surveying with DistoX

TopoDroid is an Android app for cave surveying. The survey data are downloaded from a DistoX or they can be entered manually. Sketches of the cave are drawn freehand around the centerline skeleton.

The survey data can be exported in Therion format. Survex, Compass and VisualTopo file export is also supported. Drawings are saved as Therion "th2" files. They can be also exported as PNG image files.
TopoDroid can toggle the DistoX calibration mode, compute calibrations, and upload the calibration coefficients onto a DistoX.

TopoDroid is designed to take data and notes, and to draw sketches in the cave, one survey at a time. It does not fully manage complex cave survey projects. It relies on the Cave3D app to display the 3D presentation of the centerline of the survey.

TopoDroid uses a linear workflow model, with two lines of work: one for surveys and the other for calibrations. TopoDroid main window displays the list of surveys or that of calibrations. The user switches between the two by tapping on the top tabs. There are menus to create a new survey or calibration, to import one, and to manage the DistoX devices.

Check out the project page at : http://code.google.com/p/topolinux/wiki/TopoDroid