Interesting Software Tools

I agree Snagit is an awesome tool.

Larry P

Here's a free Surveyor's add-on for Excel that gives some of the functionality of the old HP calculators ( HMS HR AZ DIST HMS+ HMS- etc )

Surveyor.zip

Makes it easier to do traverse sheets, reductions etc inside Excel

This is not a software but a website app.

http://q-cogo.com/

it's open source and you can download and use it for free.

I have used it on my android phone a few times to do some inversing.

Hi Dave,

I like the website you gave and i was able to download it. Sorry for being noob, you mentioned you were able to use it in Android phone. Hope you can advise how can I make it work with my Android phone.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers!
Denmark

> Sorry for being noob, you mentioned you were able to use it in Android phone. Hope you can advise how can I make it work with my Android phone.

It's a javascript app that runs on the website, so you run it in a browser just like you would on a PC.

Ultra Edit for working with text, I use it to reduce gsi.

http://www.ultraedit.com/

for coordinate transformation

franson

for extraction information from pictures and printing pictures

pie studio

file renamer

http://filerenamer.co/
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

> Ultra Edit for working with text, I use it to reduce gsi.
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Ditto.

This text editor can switch to column mode. So you can move/delete/paste columns. Which comes in very handy when manipulating coordinate files.

I will 3rd that :good: :good: :good:

SHG

Please explain

How do you use Snagit in surveying and/or engineering?

Please explain

Mr. Jim,

Don't know about Snagit, but we use the built-in combo to capture screen images. Been doing it for years.

G

what a nice program !! thank you for sharing
I noticed that a whole bunch of points can be pasted into that program.

For this one needs a SPACE delimited file with Pt N E El Desc fields, than copy them, than press Edit button beneath Point Srceen, and paste them there, and than press edit again.

Calc points can be retrieved in somewhat reverse order

Please explain

> How do you use Snagit in surveying and/or engineering?

I use it extensively to capture and create images for training. If you are dubious that that particular use is "surveying or engineering", there is a less often used but more direct use.

Several times I have used the "capture as text" function to get coordinates from a map into a coordinate file.

Larry P

Ultraedit

4th it:good: :good:

Please explain

So it will create an ASCII file from an image?

Please explain

I capture the text then paste the text into a MSWord document. From there it is an easy process to get the text to an Excel Spreadsheet. That can be saved as a CSV or several other file types.

Larry P

Please explain

Nice! Thanks for sharing - that will definitely come in handy.

Like Jim said it's a web page i just book marked it and go to the website on my phone.

ya i thought it was pretty cool as well.

Some of the ones I use all the time in addition to survey specific software:

Avast! (internet security)

Convert for Windows (Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!)

CCleaner (disk cleaner)

FileZilla (ftp client)

ExpertGPS and/or Fugawi Global Navigator (similar, have owned Fugawi longer, BUT I use ExpertGPS more now)

Eye4Software Coordinate Calculator

IrfanView (image viewer)

Lotus SmartSuite (similar to MS Office, hasn't been updated since Y2K and yet still works, I think it to be much easier to use than MS office suite.) Write all of my reports using this product, word processor, spreadsheet (remember Lotus 123?) and the database, great product for making monument sheets.

Open Office (when I have to view and edit MS Office documents)

UltraEdit / UltraCompare / UltraSentry

Windows XP mode, use this quite a bit for things like CorpsCon, etc. that won't run in WIN7 64 bit.

WinZip

Not all of these are free, many are though and the paid versions are pretty inexpensive for all of them.

SHG