CUCC Expedition Handbook - Your phone

Cave survey software - using a phone

Phones

Your Android phone

Everyone has a phone pretty much, and everyone should have GPS enabled for safety. See the expo GPS configuration pages.

There are several cave survey apps which run on a phone. We don't yet have a well documented way of using these with the expo survey data workflow.

• OsmAnd - a GPS app.
• GPSessentials - another GPS app.
• Ape@Map - another GPS app, compatible with Kompass commerical map sand used by Austrian cavers
• TopoDroid makes cave surveys with the DistoX.
• Cave3D is a Therion 3D viewer.
• ThManager organizes single surveys, exported by TopoDroid, into Therion projects encoded by Therion "thconfig" files.

You can also use a phone to upload files and manage version control on the server. This is not the place to start, but if you are already doing this on your own laptop then these can be useful:

• Termius - command line to create a registratkey for your phone, to ssh (and mosh) login to the expo server. To get sftp you have to buy it.
• andftp FTP app - needs an ssh key installed on your phone
• FTP using Cx_File_Explorer (this is probably out of date)