Martin Feuchtwanger of Underhill Geomatics writes of their surveying utility program Copan. I don’t know much about surveying, but can at least list some features from the help file:
Palm:
And Pocket PC:
Feature sets are similar between the different versions, and data can be interchanged between them; GPS is supported for the mobile platforms. The software is free, but you’ll need to get a password and license key via email to use any of the versions. The Windows license key is in a “.bin” file, and some email services (like GMail) won’t accept files with that extension.
This looks nice – and free – though it’s considerably more specialist than the sort PDA/GPS software that we’ve been looking for here at MapAction, i.e. something to enter attributes, via pre-defined forms, for point and line features coming from the GPS. In other words, something like ArcPad, but simpler, and preferably free or low-cost! One good candidate is CyberTracker. Does anyone know of other similar mobile geo-data collection software?