SamT
Moderator
OK OK, so everyone's gone DistoX mad.
We are all pratting about at home with soldering irons, laptops, pda's and blinding the kids with lasers.
But what about actually getting underground with one (as I hope to do very soon).
My plan is to bag off using a PDA and pocket topo.
Its all well and good wandering round the warm and pleasant caves of Matienzo or Mulu with one, but there is no way I'm pratting about in Bagshawe with a pda. It's gonna be a full time job just to keep the distoX from getting wet/clarted up/dropped/drowned/scratched etc.
Let alone a PDA too.
I'm just going to use it in conjunction with a good old waterproof notebook/pencil for sketching and jotting down from to tape/compass/clino data.
Then at home, use the blue tooth just just down load the results and cut and paste the ones I need from pocket topo (with reference to the notebook) into Excel or text for use with Survex or Therion
Thats my plan anyhow. Have I overlooked something. Is there a major paw in my flan.
We are all pratting about at home with soldering irons, laptops, pda's and blinding the kids with lasers.
But what about actually getting underground with one (as I hope to do very soon).
My plan is to bag off using a PDA and pocket topo.
Its all well and good wandering round the warm and pleasant caves of Matienzo or Mulu with one, but there is no way I'm pratting about in Bagshawe with a pda. It's gonna be a full time job just to keep the distoX from getting wet/clarted up/dropped/drowned/scratched etc.
Let alone a PDA too.
I'm just going to use it in conjunction with a good old waterproof notebook/pencil for sketching and jotting down from to tape/compass/clino data.
Then at home, use the blue tooth just just down load the results and cut and paste the ones I need from pocket topo (with reference to the notebook) into Excel or text for use with Survex or Therion
Thats my plan anyhow. Have I overlooked something. Is there a major paw in my flan.