You may also need to install image editing software such as Irfanview or gimp. -
The expo laptop is a bulk update laptop configuration. It has everything for editing and testing survey files (survex, aven, cavern), drawings (tunnel, therion), scanned images of sketches and centre-lines, and photographs. The expo laptop in the potato hut is also physically connected to a flatbed scanner but you can use your phone camera instead and email the images to yourself on your laptop. +
The expo laptops have the 'bulk update laptop' configuration. IThey has everything for editing and testing survey files (survex, aven, cavern), drawings (tunnel, therion), scanned images of sketches and centre-lines, and photographs. The primary expo laptop in the potato hut is also physically connected to a flatbed scanner but you can use your phone camera instead and email the images to yourself on your laptop. -
The expo laptop may also have some software for managing vector images (such as rigging guides), PocketTopo files, GIS digital maps and GPS tracks. See the full survey laptop configuration for details. +
The expo laptops may also have some software for managing vector images (such as rigging guides), PocketTopo files, GIS digital maps and GPS tracks. See the full survey laptop configuration and the basecamp computer systems pages..
Managing large sets of photographs and scanned images, and managing several folders of these on your laptop and on expofiles on the server is finicky and time-consuming. Many programmers use rsync to help them with this, but if you have never used rsync, now is not the time to learn. Use filezilla on the expo laptop. It is at this point that if you are using a Windows machine, you really need to read about how expo uses hard and soft links and filenames on Windows. If things get screwed up badly, it will need someone on a Linux machine to sort it out.