tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950727852821572506.post6006975106516847630..comments2024-03-04T04:08:54.486-05:00Comments on Accidental Remediation: tablet time?Short Geologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08047258159927129336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950727852821572506.post-66561792839739025522013-11-18T07:33:34.269-05:002013-11-18T07:33:34.269-05:00Tablets and the like are becoming increasingly com...Tablets and the like are becoming increasingly coming in exploration, for sure. I have logged core, chips, soil samples, etc directly into Acquire on a Toughbook or Tablet for several different employers. I've even entered geotechnical mapping of underground drive walls directly into a tablet. <br /><br />I have done several seasons of early stage stream sed and soil sampling in the boonies where we used Junos/Trimbles with a software the name of which I'm bizarrely blanking on considering how many hours I spent wrestling with it in camp at night. This is becoming extremely common for that kind of work: the Trimbles give you a form you enter all your data into from drop-downs, capture your GPS position, tag the photo you take with the device of your sample locality, and then show it all to you on a map you upload with all the goodies you want before your poor crew chief spends her night downloading it all and plotting it in Arc while you watch movies in the kitchen tent.<br /><br />It isn't perfect but MAN did it beat manual data entry into Excel at night (been there many times, never want to go there again).1o2p3e4r5https://www.blogger.com/profile/09036992450440370468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950727852821572506.post-14311050539836099652013-11-11T21:38:15.784-05:002013-11-11T21:38:15.784-05:00Yes, data collection via handhelds definitely take...Yes, data collection via handhelds definitely takes place. I have only seen a few generic commercial apps -- most are specific to a particular equipment system or tool, or custom-built by an organization. <br /><br />If this is for small-scale or personal use and you already have editable forms you like, it might be relatively efficient for you to find a system where you can edit those on a mobile device and cache them locally, then sync back when you are on the network. Some basic file sharing services let you cache them for access when offline. You might need to edit your forms to be more mobile-friendly for easy data friendly, so you'd have multiple form designs.<br /><br />On the other hand, if you are always online, you could create a web form that dumps your data into a database or some other record. @cbdawsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950727852821572506.post-6049857885173330572013-11-11T21:04:02.334-05:002013-11-11T21:04:02.334-05:00I saw this on Twitter after RTing your post: "...I saw this on Twitter after RTing your post: "@sfoxx @Geoblogfeed There's always the "write your own app" option, so you can have exactly what you need on the form." from <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffersonite" rel="nofollow">@jeffersonite</a> -- I don't use apps much, so can't comment on how much effort this would take.Silver Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03131032620978696727noreply@blogger.com