Land Survey Company

One of the most important (and tedious) tasks of land surveying is collecting data on the field. While conducting land surveys, the surveyors use specialized instruments to collect field data, and, save it using a PDA. GPS’s are used to find out the accurate positional coordinates of points; GPS and a data collection instruments work in tandem with each other to keep a coherent information on points observed (e.g., positional coordinates etc.); this information can later be used to build a sufficiently complete representation of the surveyed area.

iPhones, with the help of a properly designed app, can be today’s perfect data collection tools; and thus, be of great importance to the land surveying industry.

An iPhone app can provide choices in building land surveying forms based on the nature of surveys- just like the customized Pendragon forms widely used for data collection. iPhones can accurately find out the positional coordinates of physical points with the help of inbuilt GPS facility; these coordinates can then be stored for later use within the iPhone app. iPhones will be able to provide 4 advantages over regular data collection tools:

1. Instant synchronization of field data with the office computer: iPhones can access remote applications without the internet, and thus, transferring collected data on the field to the surveying software installed on the office computers can be done from anywhere (field, office etc.) and at any time (e.g., while travelling).

This feature will also be a big help when surveyors, while performing multiple surveys, won’t have to run to the office to synchronize the office software with the surveyed data after every survey.

2. Surveyors won’t have to deal with separate GPS, PDA, data collection tools clutter with this iPhone app. The iPhone can single handedly perform all the tasks mentioned above.

3. Future investment: Surveying companies won’t have to worry about stuff like what data collection software is more compatible with their in-office software. The iPhone apps can be customized to synchronize, communicate and work well between any surveying software, relieving the surveying companies from the headache of software incompatibility issues.

4. Easy deployment & low Maintenance: The amount of money spent on handing out separate PDAs and GPS’s will be far more than deploying a single app that surveyors can carry on their iPhones! Once made, iPhone apps are easy to deploy and require very low maintenance.

iPhones, with their versatility, can be perfect data collection tools and can significantly improve the efficiency of tasks involved in field data collection for land surveying.