Another Cheap way to bring your maps to the field (Geospatial Portable Document Format)
Nowadays, bringing maps to the field is not as complex/expensive as in the past. There are numerous software and tools that could be utilized to do that. A range of IOS/Android/Windows phone gadgets can do it using various methods either online or offline then synchronize all the fieldwork to the source data back in the office. But people usually looking for simple and cheap way no matter what is the purpose to do the fieldworks. Am I right ? so if you are one of them (like me too), I will give some insight that may could be useful. PDF format since few years ago has been incorporated geospatial information as part of the auxiliary information stored in the file. This cool feature enabling us to save a map in PDF format (include its geospatial coordinates) and then transfer it to our phones and brings it to the field to do field check (integrated with our phones GPS Capabilities). This method sure saving us more resources instead of field online mapping (in aspect of carrier d...