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Another Cheap way to bring your maps to the field (Geospatial Portable Document Format)

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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...

Offline ArcGIS Services to be used in Smartphones (PBS Tutorial Series Part 2)

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Hey there, another video tutorial incoming, this time it is about how to make offline maps from ArcGIS Map Services, and yes, you could implement the similar procedure to make offline maps from other online map services along it is supported by PBS. here we go

Membuat Offline Map di Aplikasi OruxMaps (Android) menggunakan Mobile Atlas Creator

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Navigasi dan survey GPS menggunakan Handphone memang praktis, tapi jika peta yang digunakan sebagai referensi merupakan peta online, kita akan berhadapan dengan beberapa masalah, yang pertama perlu alokasi pulsa yg cukup untuk mengunduh peta online melalui paket data, baterai yang menjadi lebih cepat habis karena mengakses jaringan 3G, dan coverage jaringan internet seluler yang tidak selalu baik di setiap tempat. Dengan menggunakan Mobile Atlas Creator, kita dapat membuat offline Map yang nanti dapat dibuka di HP android dan dijadikan sebagai basemap kegiatan navigasi atau survei yang kita lakukan. Dengan demikian kita tidak perlu khawatir mengenai paket data dan baterai yg cepat habis.  MOBAC dapat diunduh dari situs INI   Di situs itu juga dijabarkan aplikasi aplikasi mobile yang didukung oleh software tersebut. MOBAC memerlukan Java Runtime, oleh karena itu sebelum menggunakan MOBAC pastikan JRE versi terbaru sudah terinstal MOBAC bersifat portable/executa...