This should be interesting and informative.
I am always on the outlook for software that makes my job as a surveyor easier, or more efficient. Excepting out the usual big name office and survey software, the following are some of the software packages that I have found very useful to me:
NoteTab - Excellent text editor
FoxIt - Full featured PDF suite (equal to Adobe Pro)
DotSoft ToolPak, WordtoCad, XLtoCad - Autocad productivity tools
OpenOffice - Full featured Office suite compatible
DropBox - Cloud drive for file storage & transfer
Mozilla Thunderbird - Email program
So, what have you found?
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Faststone Image Viewer
GIMP (photoshop clone)
QGIS
all free
> This should be interesting and informative.
>
> I am always on the outlook for software that makes my job as a surveyor easier, or more efficient. Excepting out the usual big name office and survey software, the following are some of the software packages that I have found very useful to me:
>
> NoteTab - Excellent text editor
> FoxIt - Full featured PDF suite (equal to Adobe Pro)
> DotSoft ToolPak, WordtoCad, XLtoCad - Autocad productivity tools
> OpenOffice - Full featured Office suite compatible
> DropBox - Cloud drive for file storage & transfer
> Mozilla Thunderbird - Email program
>
> So, what have you found?
Textpad - excellent text editor, especially in block mode allowing to edit text like an excel file in the vertical. Great for point lists.
Adobe Pro
Civil 3d - every flavor.
Office Pro Plus
Dropbox and google drive
Gmail
Irfanview - Image viewer
Trimble Business center - all things GPS and field data
Starnet - adjustments
Google Earth, and Street View.
Surveyconnect.com, For everything!B-)
DSworld for NGS Datasheets
Itunes for music
Chrome for browser
Filezilla for FTP site access and transfers
Probably more.
Firefox
MS Word
Outlook Express
Carlson 2009 w/ embedded Autocad
> This should be interesting and informative.
>
> I am always on the outlook for software that makes my job as a surveyor easier, or more efficient. Excepting out the usual big name office and survey software, the following are some of the software packages that I have found very useful to me:
>
> NoteTab - Excellent text editor
> FoxIt - Full featured PDF suite (equal to Adobe Pro)
> DotSoft ToolPak, WordtoCad, XLtoCad - Autocad productivity tools
> OpenOffice - Full featured Office suite compatible
> DropBox - Cloud drive for file storage & transfer
> Mozilla Thunderbird - Email program
>
> So, what have you found?
>
>
> // moved to CAD/Software/Computers category //
Carlson, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Notepad, Word, [REDACTED], Google Earth.
Carlson is pretty self explanatory, Mozilla cause I like open source, Notepad cause I edit raw data many times with it and it came with the computer, Word because others don't like open source, [REDACTED] because of the reproject function in it, Google Earth cause I don't believe my crews, and a host of websites for information.
- ...LDT2009
- ...Outlook 2013
- ...Word 2013
- ...Excel 2013
- ...Acrobat 11
- ...StarNet
- ...Beyond Compare
- ...Google Chrome
- ...Notepad++
SuperMemo (SM15) to study for exams
Libreoffice
Gnumeric (better spreadsheet)
QGIS as mentioned above
Compendium
VMware Player
Copernic Desktop Search
ABBYY Fine Reader
just getting started with Dragon Naturally Speaking.
LGO / Trimble Mission Planner / Star*Net
Couple things I would get, given a budget: ExpertGPS and Columbus.
Civil3d 2012 with Sincpac
Microstation (only because certain entities require it)
ArcGIS
TGO
DSWORLD
Google Earth and GE Street View
Printkey 2000 - Great for capturing screen shots
Irfan View
plus the usual compliment of word, spreadsheet and internet browsers.
Carlson
OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Firefox
Notepad++
7-Zip
PDFCreator
Trimble Data Transfer
OPUS
Adobe Lightroom
Some free software that may not have been mentioned yet:
Corpscon6
ArcGIS Explorer
LizardTech GeoViewer
WinGMM (stong brain housing group required)
GPSBabel
XMind
and perhaps...
FileZilla
Komodo Edit 7
WinDirStat
Dxf to xyz
Is a program that will extract all the xyz values out of the cad elements of a cad plan and save it to an ascii file, great if you want the xyz of all the vertices of a polyline , but don't want to pick them off manually, it will do it for points and lines too.
Google earth
geopak
microstation
arcgis
cyclone scanner s/w
cloudworks
leica geo office
carlson
Civil 3D with Kubit Pointsense, Sincpac, Dotsoft tools, Geotools and Cadpower
MS office
Firefox
Irfanview
Ultraedit
Faro Scene
Google Earth
Bluebeam PDF Revu
Evernote
Total Commander
PCSurvey (Drafting)
Foresight (Data Collector)
MS Access (File Database)
Outlook (Email)
Mozilla Firefox (County GIS open all the time)
Adobe PDF reader (Everything)
MS Word
Math Type (full version)
GeoTrans
CorpsCon 6
Google Earth
iWitness
Brief
WordPerfect 12
Chrome for browsing
Firefox for downloads
Carlson Surveyor 1
Carlson CES
GNSS Solutions
SMI Transfer
Google Earth
Quick Media Converter
Nikon View NX2
Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
Brother Control Center
Surpac - AWESOME PROGRAM
Vulcan - Powerful program, yet horrible if you want to use this for surveying
I-Site - Very friendly scan processing software
ER Viewer - For viewing large image files with great resolution
ArcGIS - Mainly needed to support non-CAD experienced people
Gemcom Insite
CutePDF
Interesting so far.
My Line up is:
Microsurvey CAD 2013
Transit (nikon's data transfer)
Notepad
MS Word
Adobe reader
Google Chrome
Google Earth
Either Bing maps or Google map
Gmail
Yahoo mail
Paint.net (photoshop clone)
Zoner Photo Studio
7-Zip
FileZilla
Facebook
I think that is about it.