+++ Markus Boldt [2014-10-12 17:05 +0200]: > Hi all, > slowly the time goes to end, there we can buy cheap "old" PDA with > Winmobile. Pockettopo works only on Win platform and small cheap devices > with Windows as OS are seldom. And our devices in use are growing older. > What do you all use? What alternatives are possible. I know about some so > called APPS for Android, but do they work?
I saw a demo of an app at Hidden Earth which is essentially a re-implementation of pockettopo on android. The core drawing part is done, as is data transmission over bluetooth. It needs some file save/read code to be useful. Andrew knows the name of the fellow doing it - I've forgotten. Having an android app with that functionality will give us a lot more choice of hardware. There is already topodroid, but I understand it is a lot more like xtherion-lite than pockettopo, which is OK if your cave is warm and you like surveying very slowly, but for many situations the very simple lines-only/no metadata drawing style of pockettopo makes a lot of sense. I am certainly very keen to see a free software implementation of pockettopo. It might even make me buy an android device :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
