Auriga is a cave survey freeware for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) running under Palm OS. Auriga is designed for in-cave use as a smart survey notebook: as the survey goes, Auriga displays the line plot in graphical form, reports statistics, helps spot and fix survey errors and assists in sketching to scale. Bidirectional data exchange with Compass and Visual Topo is automated.As of 24 February version 2.03 is available for download here.
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New features * sketch element grouping implemented; Group tool/mode reached by holding down stylus on sketch tool (3rd to the right) in Map * stylus trace interpolated to sketch smoother curves * sketch stays displayed when switching Map mode to a transient mode (Span, Line, Spot or Path) even if sketch is disabled in display options * when inputting a GPS position in Survey Shot form, leaving the data connection active averages the position * ITRF92 datum added in new Grids.pdb * option "Disable External Search" added in Cave Details form * option "Current Shot" added to Search form when launched from Survey Shot form * smarter pattern-finding algorithm in Global Find and Select forms now allows finding * and ? characters even when wildcards are used * options "Convert Sketch" and "Convert Splay Measures" added in Shots view of Operations form * option "Export Itinerary" added in Loops view of Operations form * options "Add Attributes" and "Remove Attributes" added to Caves view of Operations form * options "By Absolute Error" and "By Relative Error" added for overall, horizontal and vertical loop errors in Loops view of Select form * if only one loop in cave, it is automatically set as the current loop * the "Export as New Cave" option in Loops view of Operations form now allows exporting to memory card * scale and North arrow added to SVG export of Map * SVG and DXF scales based on overall map width * Auriga Keypad used for Projection and Path modes in Map * Auriga Keypad now tolerant when using the a-b-c icon for a numeric field of the 1-2-3 icon for an alphabetic field * Sessions form operates in read-only mode when called from Map (it could cause too much trouble otherwise) * number of search results, survey shot errors or survey shots in loop or path displayed in title bar * "Subtract One" station auto-incrementation mode added to Cave Details * in Main form, the Beam menu item also allows beaming Auriga components (software, language resources, math library, datums and preferences) * when called from Main form, Export and Beam forms allow exporting or beaming selected caves (in Caves view of Selection form) * option "Update Only" added to Export form to only update existing survey shots or sessions in target cave(s) * "Caseless" and "Wildcards" checkboxes selected by default in Search form * sketch "objects" renamed "elements" to match GIS terminology Bug fixes * undoing a Scissors operation in sketch could erase all sketch elements for the current survey shot * ignoring the unsaved survey shot alert before returning to Map in Sketch mode could erase all sketch elements for that survey shot * the Survey Shot form did not self-adapt to a virtual shot when receiving GPS data while displaying an empty regular survey shot * in Section view in Map, if all non-zero passage dimensions and splay measurement were on the same side of the station, the wall outline and the automatic polygon in Sketching mode excluded the station * in certain cases, a station could show in Map or export in DXF more splay measurements than it really had * zooming the Map would sometimes hide sketch elements even though their parent survey shot crossed the screen * creating a new session and leaving it unsaved while in Map form would later crash sketching * the extended profile SVG export was truncated * in the DXF export, passage heights and sketch ignored the "Keep Origin XYZ" checkbox * in the SVG export, the sketch would appear away from the line plot if the cave had a non 0,0,0 origin * passage heights could appear huge in profile views in the DXF export * the Map did not follow well the (connected) GPS position * text styles (underlined, framed, etc.) did not use text color in sketch * wrong number of total steps displayed when searching for a path in Map form * when there was no middle station, the path computed in the Map showed an impossible middle station name * it is now possible to interrupt the search of a path in Map * better interface for the bulk restore of PDBs from memory card * better handling of the Aceeca PDA32 keys * the sketch selection rectangle could leave a ghost trace in Map * selecting a sketch element could leave the previously selected survey shot highlighted in Map * in certain cases, it was possible to have more than one tool selected in Map * caves with an uppercase PDB extension were not recognized for restore from memory card * logs could no longer be exported as memos * the Palm OS Global Find (launched outside of Auriga) did not search Auriga caves or networks * fields in the Measures form accepted letters (although refused when attempting to save) * using the Up or Down buttons in the Auriga Keypad while inputting a sketch layer name would crash * an unnamed hidden sketch leyer could be selected as current layer * exporting the cave while in Map in Sketch mode could crash * minor overlaps fixed in Preferences, Element Details (sketching) and Export forms Reference manual * Group mode and Group tool documented in sketch * changes to beaming and data export