Import and export

Tap an export. The app builds the file and opens the share sheet: save it to Files, AirDrop it to your computer, email it, or send it to Google Drive or Dropbox.

If a project has no photos or no GPS locations, the app says so instead of making an empty file.

Maps makes interactive map pages you can send to a landowner or colleague. They open in any web browser, no app needed. The top shows what can be mapped: plots and trees with GPS, stands and acres.

• Basemap: satellite, outdoors, streets, OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, USGS Topo and others.
• Map types: Overview (boundary, stands and plots), Trees (every tree with a location, colored by species), Per Stand (a zoomed map of each stand), Species and Size.

Tap the download button on a map type to export it, or Export All Maps. Tree maps need trees with GPS locations (Chapter 5).

Open the project to import into, then Import/Export › Import Data. It brings stands, plots and trees from an Excel workbook into that project: an older cruise, data from another program, or a Forest Metrix workbook.

File requirements: worksheets named Stands, Plots and Trees. The Trees sheet needs Plot, Species and DBH columns; log columns (such as Log1Product, Log1HT) are optional.

1. Tap Select Excel File and choose the .xlsx file.
2. The app reads it and summarizes what it found, or explains what went wrong.
3. Species: match any species it doesn’t recognize to your species list. It suggests likely matches; you can search for others.
4. Products: match each unrecognized product to one of yours, add it as a new product, or skip it (its logs are then left out). Next waits until every product has a choice.
5. Preview: what will be created and skipped. Choose Append to add to the project or Replace to replace its data.
6. Tap Import Data. The app reports what it imported, with a log.

Georeferenced PDF

Tap Import Georeferenced PDF and choose a PDF up to 100 MB that carries its own map coordinates (a GeoPDF), such as a management-plan map exported from ArcGIS or QGIS. The app turns it into map tiles stored on the phone. If the PDF has no coordinates, or is too large, the app tells you.

The PDF is processed on the server, which takes a minute or so; its row reads processing until it’s ready. Once imported, choose Custom above the project map to use it (Chapter 7, section 7.8). The PDF’s row here lets you refresh it, download it for offline use, or remove it.

USGS topo quads

Find USGS topo quads for this project lists the historical USGS 1:24,000 quads that cover the property, with the year, the scan and how much of the project each covers. Tap Import to add one as a custom map.