GPS help wanted

[arb culture]

When I was at college (a few years ago) I was shown a gps device that allowed you to enter data into a table of your own design. This device was very cheap at about £120 or less.

 

It could be adapted to do tree surveys quite easily and the information could be exported as an xls or a csv type file.

 

Does anyone know where I could find such a thing?

 

I've looked online and all I can find are loads of cheap devices which I'm not sure will allow me to enter data, or loads of devices which I know allow data entry but which are very expensive at several hundred pounds.

 

[Bundle 2]

Interesting claim AC. Please post your find if you are successful as, like you, I found them to be seriously flawed and/or limited below the £1500 mark...!

[Charlieh]

the only one that you could possibly use for surveys and realistically have a usable table at that kind of money would probably be a refurb'd pda with a gps onboard and running some software like DBanywhere, although this would still be fiddley and far from ideal, possitionally accuracy would also be pretty sketchy in anything other than perfect conditions

[arb culture]

Thank Bundle and Charlieh.

 

Maybe I remembered wrong, I'll do some more digging around.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

been looking at this myself, have you seen the offerings by pear technology?

 

I think these are about the best option and Im in for some training soon as poss.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Digital mapping and GIS Software from Pear Technology

[Swooop]

I've been looking into allsorts (both arb specific and general GPS/GIS) and Pear do look like a good bunch. Have you looked at digiterra? Looks to be a very capable software with some arb plugins, had a wee chat with a very helpful bloke called Dave at Ormston technology.

Not cheap though, but is any of it?

[Charlieh]

Dave S at ormtec will help you as much as he possibly can, he has done loads for me in the past, and i have evaluted most mobile GIS software out there for handhelds, and if its being used by more than one person digiterra is the most versitile and easiest to teach people to use, (its also the easiest to configure for different tables for recording) to the point that i have done an a4 quick sheet that gets most people out and recording data,

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I've been looking into allsorts (both arb specific and general GPS/GIS) and Pear do look like a good bunch. Have you looked at digiterra? Looks to be a very capable software with some arb plugins, had a wee chat with a very helpful bloke called Dave at Ormston technology.

Not cheap though, but is any of it?

 

Dave S at ormtec will help you as much as he possibly can, he has done loads for me in the past, and i have evaluted most mobile GIS software out there for handhelds, and if its being used by more than one person digiterra is the most versitile and easiest to teach people to use, (its also the easiest to configure for different tables for recording) to the point that i have done an a4 quick sheet that gets most people out and recording data,

 

What im looking for is handheld sub foot acurate tablet PC with GPS/GIS that will allow me to generate tree positions crown spread and risk assesments/vta/occupiers liability type info on the spot ready to download into a report and print map.

 

shall go see digiterra now.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Then all i need is a software package that will type from my dictaphone recording and allow me to follow behind it editing and corecting as I go!