Check out Fulcrum at http://www.fulcrumapp.com/. I haven't used it, but I saw a demo at the Open Source GIS conference in Denver last year and it looked great.
Chris On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Samantha Price <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question that I hope will be of general interest about using > tablet/ipad devices to gather field data preferably in a GIS framework. Do > the experts on this list have recommendations concerning both hardware and > software/apps suitable for field surveys? > > Background: I know some GIS but nothing about field data collection and I > am > trying to help out a citizen science project that collects weekly data, > recording the location of singing male song birds. This means there isn’t > unlimited funding for the project, so the cheaper the better! Ideally the > data would be entered onto a map on the device in the field that can then > be > easily imported into a GIS program. They don’t need a precise lat/long > (GPS) > as they have to estimate where the male is singing from, so a georeferenced > map is sufficient. The information is currently collected on a paper map of > the survey area using abbreviations for each species each singing male is > then marked on the plan. This is repeated each week with the volunteer then > having to collate this data at the end of season providing a summary map > for > each species within each habitat type. Obviously switching to a GIS > approach > would help enormously with the analyses and the amount of time spent > summarizing the results at the end of the season. > > Thanks - I look forward to reading your suggestions, > Sam > > > --------------------------------------- > S.A. Price, Ph.D. > Dept. Evolution & Ecology > 1 Shields Ave, > UC Davis > Davis, CA 95616 > USA > Email: [email protected] > Website: www.evovert.com > --------------------------------------- >
