About PocketTransitPro
PocketTransitPro is a geological compass app for smartphones and tablets, and records the orientations of planes (strike and dip) and lines (trend and plunge) in one operation, along with traverse angles and field site locations. Built for professional use by geologists, geophysicists, surveyors, and field/mining engineers, PocketTransitPro allows visualisation of captured data in tabular, map, stereonet and rose-plot forms, and allows easy export of data to spreadsheet-compatible files via email. PocketTransitPro captures strike, dip, trend, plunge, and location data simultaneously in one operation.
Theodolite data, Photo records, and Waymarker records can also be recorded, and users can define custom record types for plane and lineation recordings.
PocketTransitPro has a five-tab UI featuring compass, theodolite, project, analysis, and map pages.
Compass page: displays compass azimuth, along with strike, dip, trend, plunge, and location (in latitude/longitude or UTM), and includes a clinometer display.
Theodolite page: displays horizontal and vertical angles, clinometer display, and location data. Photo records can be captured, and traverse records can be defined.
Projects page: displays captured data organised in user-defined projects. Captured data can be reviewed, edited, and exported to disk or via email.
Analysis page: displays planes, poles, and lineations on Wulff or Schmidt stereonets, or on a rose plot. The analysis image can be exported to file.
Map page: displays capture locations on a flickable and zoomable map. Standard strike / lineation symbology is used for plane and lineation data. Locations of theodolite, photo and waymark records are also indicated. Photo and Waymarker records can be captured.
Version 1.1.1 is a bug-fix release:
- fix bug updating records when adding and deleting projects
Version 1.1 is mainly a performance and bug-fix release which includes:
- improved rendering of stereonet graphics
- improved handling of capture sound
- improved handling of tab changes
- improved handling of background state of app
- fixed bug with duplicate projects when project name was edited
by S####:
I'm not a geologist but on any map I've ever used NE is always in the upper right quadrant. The compass on this app could not find north, so had no faith in its other abilities. Website help was of no use in sorting out my lack of understanding, so I have chalked this app up as "bad investment"