aquamole jim
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I have given up on PDA,s because of reliability problems and expense! they may be cheap to purchase but the cost soon builds up when you have to replace them and also the cost of getting to the cave you wish to survey needs to be taken into account! especially if its abroad and the equipment failure leads to several lost days, eg transporting Diving cylinders in and out etc.
PDA,s are also by their nature an ever decreasing item that are only going to become more difficult to find in the future.
I think of them as video recorders when most people now use DVD'S or Memory sticks.
Does any know if Pocket toppo and associated programs are being developed for Android? or would I be better looking at apps such as Toppo Droid? The experimenting I have done with Toppo Droid resulted in a computer skills limited person like myself being able to get a good centre line and splays using Survex without any problems at all, 100% reliable I found problems though if I got carried away and put to much passage detail in as the program would crash, but would start up again without losing anything, I think its probably the way forward for someone like myself who is OK at Cave Engineering and diving but crap at operating computer Programs, how ever I am still interested in "Pocket Toppo" as its the most widely used by my caving Friends at Present, what are Peoples thoughts?
PDA,s are also by their nature an ever decreasing item that are only going to become more difficult to find in the future.
I think of them as video recorders when most people now use DVD'S or Memory sticks.
Does any know if Pocket toppo and associated programs are being developed for Android? or would I be better looking at apps such as Toppo Droid? The experimenting I have done with Toppo Droid resulted in a computer skills limited person like myself being able to get a good centre line and splays using Survex without any problems at all, 100% reliable I found problems though if I got carried away and put to much passage detail in as the program would crash, but would start up again without losing anything, I think its probably the way forward for someone like myself who is OK at Cave Engineering and diving but crap at operating computer Programs, how ever I am still interested in "Pocket Toppo" as its the most widely used by my caving Friends at Present, what are Peoples thoughts?