by Donn Downey | Mar 25, 2014 | Apps, Australia, Business of Forestry, Canada, Cultural Measurement, Ecological Data Capture, Education, Forest Metrics, Foresters, GIS, Hardware, Instruments, Internet Access, Mapping, Mensuration, Mid Atlantic, Midwest, Non-Forestry Uses, Northwest, South, Southwest, Southwest, Trade Shows, Uncategorized
At last, Forest Metrix has developed a full-featured version for Apple’s iPhone! We were able to keep all the same features and analytics, and the interface is pretty slick. Some think it is even easier to user than the iPad version. One really neat part is that...
by Tig Tillinghast | Mar 20, 2014 | Canada, Cases, Ecological Data Capture, GIS, Hardware, Instruments, Navigation, Non-Forestry Uses, Ruggedizing
Our friend Brian Saunders of tabletEXgear has a few new products, illustrated in the video here. We have a few of his packs ourselves, and there’s nothing better for cruising.
by Tig Tillinghast | Sep 1, 2013 | Apps, Ecological Data Capture, Mapping, Non-Forestry Uses, Urban Forestry
Forest Metrix is proud to announce the release of its urban forestry application Urban Forest Metrix, allowing private and municipal arborists to inventory trees and keep a living medical record for each of them with very little effort. Because it makes creating work...
by Tig Tillinghast | Sep 1, 2013 | Apps, Clients, Education, Mapping, Non-Forestry Uses, Roads, Vermont
The town of Sharon, Vermont worked with Forest Metrix to create an application similar to Forest Metrix to sample and keep track of road segment conditions. The project will extend over the fall, allowing local Sharon Academy students to get field experience helping...
by Tig Tillinghast | Apr 8, 2013 | Cases, Hardware, Non-Forestry Uses, Research and Studies, Riparian, Ruggedizing, Uncategorized
Tig’s Take: It handled the two-year-old during the pre-bedtime bath. There isn’t much worse it could be subjected to. I did notice that placing a sharp-cornered plastic box made a little mark in the rubbery screen protector. The box was only about half a...
by Tig Tillinghast | Mar 31, 2013 | Foresters, Hardware, Instruments, Landowners, Navigation, Non-Forestry Uses, Ruggedizing, Uncategorized
The Ipega waterproof iPad Mini case appears to work well, even passing the hand-it-to-your-two-year-old-in-the-bathtub test, which says something. If it can do that, it can handle forest inventories. It does not appear to be as hardy as a case as, say, the Otterbox...
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