Technical support --------------- make your selection -------------- (606) 564-5028 1 year free upgrades, free tec... 800-327-4773 866 4 TOPCON A A, A, 1-800-4-SOKKIA A, 30 days A, Toll-free or e-mail A, Tollfree # or e-mail A, Tollfree and e-mail B B, free Phone and email Subscription Plan Yes
Warranty (months) --------------- make your selection -------------- 1 1 year free upgrades 12 12 months 24 3 N/A
Money-back guarantee (months) --------------- make your selection -------------- 1 3 N/A
PLATFORM & INSTRUMENTS --------------- make your selection --------------
Name/model of handheld computer, other (specify) --------------- make your selection -------------- (works with any iPAQ) All Windows CE Allegro MX, Allegro CX, Jett C... Allegro MX, GETAC PS535F, Wind... Archer, Dell Axim, HP iPAQ Carlson Data Collectors, Junip... Carlson Explorer 600+ FC 100/FC 120/FC 200/FC 2000/F... GETAC PS535F, Juniper Archer, ... GMS-2. FC100,FC200,FC2000 Juniper Allegro & PSION WorkAb... Juniper Archer, Windows Mobile... Leica CS10 and CS15 Leica/RX1250 X, Leica GPS1200 ... MobileMapper 6 MobileMapper CX MobileMapper CX, ProMark 3 RTK... n/a Panasonic Toughbook or similar PC or Laptop / Windows Mobile ... Supports a variety of hardware... TDS Recon Trimble ACU and Trimble TSCe Trimble Control Unit, Trimble ... Trimble CU and Trimble TSC2 Trimble Recon Windows CE and Windows Mobile ... Windows CE computers Windows PC, Allegro MX, Allegr... XYZworks Fieldbook
OPERATING SYSTEMS --------------- make your selection --------------
Windows systems (specify) --------------- make your selection -------------- 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP. CE ... 98,2000,NT,XP, Vista CE CE, .NET, Pocket PC (all versi... CE, .NET, PPC, Windows Mobile,... CE.NET & Windows Mobile 5.0 CE.NET& Windows Mobile 5.0 CE/Windows Mobile Proprietary WinCE 4.0, WinCE 5.0, Windows ... Windows 98 or higher Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Windows CE Windows CE & Windows Mobile Windows CE . NET 5.0 Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows... Windows CE.NET / Windows Mobil... Windows CE.Net 5.0 Windows CE.NET and Windows Mob... Windows Mobile Windows Mobile 5 or Windows M... Windows Mobile 5, 6 or Windows... Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 Windows Mobile 6.0 Windows Mobile 6.1
Other (specify) --------------- make your selection -------------- DOS Most any Windows CE or Windows... Other Windows CE devices PocketCAD PocketPC Wind River, GPS1200 On-board Windows CE.NET
Minimum RAM required (if optional/adjustable on above device) --------------- make your selection -------------- 128 MB 16 MB 16MB 2 mg 256MB RAM (512MB recommended) 32 32 MB 32MB 32meg 500mb 55 MB RAM 55MB RAM 64 64 MB 64MB 8 MB 8MB Additional 32Mb for mobile dev... N/A
Minimum screen resolution required (if optional/adjustable) --------------- make your selection -------------- 1024,768 240 x 320 240x320 240x320 / Other 240x320 or hi-res VGA devices 240x320, Displays in Hi-res 19... 320 x 240 320 x 240 Landscape or 240 x 3... 800x600 (1280x1024 recommended... Landscape or Portrait N/A NA No minimum (240x240 suggested)... Portrait VGA
Color display support? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Topo maps displayed in 96... Yes, Y - optional Yes. Also supports Hi-res VGA...
Laser rangefinders? If yes, # of brands. --------------- make your selection -------------- 2 N N/A No Y, 4 Y, all using NMEA Yes Yes #5 Yes - 6 Yes, 3 Yes, 4 Yes, 5 Yes, 5 brands Yes, 6 Yes, Leica Yes,2
Optical total stations? (If yes, # of brands.) --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y, 9 Y, all major brands Yes Yes #8 (Note 1) Yes with upgrade Yes, 10 Yes, 11 Yes, 12 Yes, 8 Yes, 8* Yes, 9 Yes, all major brands Yes, Leica Yes, SOKKIA only
GPS receivers (non-RTK)? If yes, # of brands. --------------- make your selection -------------- Any GPS receiver with NMEA dat... Any NMEA GPS Receiver Bluetoot... Any NMEA GPS Receiver, Bluetoo... Magellan MobileMapper 6 Magellan MobileMapper CX Magellan only N/A Y, 12 Y, all major brands Yes Yes #1 Yes - 13 DGPS Yes - 4 Yes, #1 Yes, 1 Yes, 3 Yes, 3** Yes, 5 Yes, 9 Yes, All Leica instruments Yes, all major brands Yes, GGA Yes, Leica Yes, SOKKIA only Yes, Trimble
GPS receivers (RTK)? If yes, # of brands. --------------- make your selection -------------- Magellan only N/A No OK via NMEA string Y, 12 Y, all major brands Yes Yes #1 Yes - 4 Yes, #1 Yes, 13 Yes, 3** Yes, 5 Yes, all major brands Yes, Leica Yes, SOKKIA only Yes, Trimble
Other instruments? Describe. --------------- make your selection -------------- 3 Digital Levels Cellular Modem for Internet/em... Depth Sounders, Light Bars External Sensors GMS-2 Digital Imaging GIS Hand... MDL Scanning Laser MMGPS+ MMGPS+, Digital Image photo no... MMGPS+,Digital Image scanning ... Peripherals: 5 Depth Sounders,... Yes, Leica
SETUP --------------- make your selection --------------
Set Instrument Parameters? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Automatic Baud Rate/Com P... Yes, Automatic Baud/Com Settin... Yes, Baud Rate/Com Port defaul... Yes, SBAS, raw data collection
Edit Point Description quick-pick lists? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, User-defined (text file) ... Yes, User-defined drop down li... Yes, User-defined drop-down li...
Set survey style types defining various instrument, measurement and point description parameters to enable easy switching from one process or instrument to another? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes Yes via Instrument Profiles Yes, User definable descriptor... Yes, with configurations
DATA STORAGE AND COLLECTION --------------- make your selection --------------
Maximum number of point measurements that can be stored as raw or coords with point number and description --------------- make your selection -------------- 1.8 million 10,000 10,000+ 100,000 100K raw, 20K coord 500,000 500,000, limited only by memor... 9600 per 1 MB CF card size dependent, 64MB a... Feature dependency Min <10,000 Min >10,000 No limit - limited only by sto... Storage dependent Unlimited Unlimited (only limited by mem... Unlimited with CF card. Y
Stores Multiple Jobs? If yes, # of jobs? (N/#/Unlimited) --------------- make your selection -------------- Multiple shp files Unlimited Y Y / Unlimited Y/Unlimited Yes Yes, based on memory size Yes, many Yes, Unlimited
Can the software attach external data files to the job file (types)? (e.g., comma delimited, geoid models, DTMs, DXF background maps) --------------- make your selection -------------- Live tracking of GPS displayed... No USGS 7.5' (1:24k)/1:100k/1:250... Y Yes Yes (Geoid) Yes (SHP, MIF, DXF, CSV) and T... Yes *** Yes, File attributes attached ... Yes, rastor/vector background ... Yes, SHP layers, or JPG, BMP, ... Yes, Topo maps automatically l... Yes, Topo Maps or any image pr... Yes, with PocketCAD
Enter or Capture Point Code (not number)? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Alphanumeric Identification of Points? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Enter base/rover height of bottom of antenna? (Y/N)(Y/N) --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Y, Y Y,Y Yes Yes/Yes
Enter base/rover height of antenna phase center? (Y/N)(Y/N) --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Y, Y Y,Y Yes Yes/Yes
Enter and determine WGS84? Lat/Long/Height --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Enter and determine geodetic coordinate? (Lat/Long?Height) --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Enter and determine local/published grid cooordinates? (XYZ, NEE) --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
MEASUREMENT SEQUENCES & ATTRIBUTE COLLECTION --------------- make your selection --------------
Manual Coordinate Entry? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Capture Descriptive Notes? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Annotations by tapping a ... Yes, tap to create points on-s... Yes, Tap to create points on-s... Yes. Click anywhere on the ima...
Coordinate Editing? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Also rotate, translate an...
Coordinate / Descriptor searching? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Erase and/or Edit Data? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, live database
Adjustable data value limits? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No No, N/A Y Yes
Time Stamping of Data? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Automatic when collecting... Yes, Automatic when recording ... Yes. Record points by time or ...
Automated plot codes? (linework) --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No No, N/A Y Yes
DATA AUTOMATION --------------- make your selection --------------
Point Number + 1? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Alphanumeric + 1? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes
Auto-Capture point based on time lapse? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Interval
Auto-Capture point based on distance lapse? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Interval
CALCULATIONS --------------- make your selection --------------
Calculate coordinates? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Also rotate, translate an... Yes, in real-time Yes. Full command-line cogo in...
Inverse? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Also autoinverse from any... Yes, Also autoinverse from any...
Calculate intersections? (bearing/bearing, distance/distance, etc.) --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes Yes. Plus Dual-Offset and Know...
Traverse computations? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes Yes, Closure with angle balanc...
Standard 2 and 3 point resection? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes Yes, Free Station with precisi...
Calculate distance and azimuth between points? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, distance Yes, Tap screen to view Lat/Lo...
Calculate area? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes
NAVIGATION & STAKEOUT --------------- make your selection --------------
Graphical navigation/stakeout? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Movement based on North b... Yes, Movement or North based A... Yes, Navigate to/from a point ... Yes, with PocketCAD Yes/No
Navigate to a stored point (waypoint)? --------------- make your selection -------------- Y Yes Yes, Just tap the screen at a ... Yes, via stakeout
Navigate to a manually-entered point? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Hand-enter Lat/Long or SP... Yes, via stakeout
Stake to a line/arc? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Stake to a point offset from a point, line or arc? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Stake to a DTM/TIN? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Capture lines and areas (as a single unique feature) --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes
Send data direct to a printer? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Print images at any scale. Aut... Y Yes Yes, Desktop version only Yes, Serial Printer
INTERACTIVE MAP --------------- make your selection --------------
View data point map? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes (waypoints) Yes, Points automatically disp... Yes, Points automatically disp...
Pan/zoom map? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, Full pan/zoom capabilitie... Yes, Pan & Zoom In/Out + Switc... Yes, with PocketCAD Yes. Full Pan/Zoom with Mouse ...
View point codes/names? --------------- make your selection -------------- No PT #s Y Yes Yes, with PocketCAD
Graphically select point for stakeout, COGO, editing? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, with PocketCAD
View background map? (DXF, etc.) --------------- make your selection -------------- ASCII DXF and ESRI shape files BMP, JPEG, MrSID, TIFF DXF, DWG, DGM, SHP, Mr Sid, Ge... DXF, DWG, DGN, SHP, Mr Sid, Ge... No Y Yes Yes (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF) Yes (TIF) Yes, DWG Yes, DXF converted to DBX Yes, Topo Maps or other georef... Yes, USGS Topo Quad Maps (7.5'... Yes, with PocketCAD Yes. Main purpose of Prosurv I... Yes. Topo Maps in 7.5' (1:24,0...
Support user-selected display of multiple layers? --------------- make your selection -------------- No Y Yes Yes, with PocketCAD Yes. Using SETS of points
Layer visibility thresholds based on zoom? --------------- make your selection -------------- N/A No Y Yes Yes, with PocketCAD
Native (preferred) file type (.DXF, .DWG, etc.) --------------- make your selection -------------- *.DXF .DXF .ILJ, .DAT .JOB .png images processed using Pr... .SDF .tlsv .tslv DBX Database DWG DWG or DGN DXF DXF, CRD, DTM, DXF, DBF DXF, SHP Geo-referenced .tif/.jpg image... MMJ N/A No png PNG (lossless compression, hi-... SDF SHP SSF UDF Yes
Import/Export DWG file? (Y/N)/(Y/N) --------------- make your selection -------------- (N)(N) N N/A N/N No No/No Y Y,Y with PocketCAD Yes
Import/Export DXF file? (Y/N)/(Y/N) --------------- make your selection -------------- (Y)(N) N N/A No Y Y,Y with PocketCAD Y/N Y/Y Yes Yes - Import & Export Yes/Yes
Import/Export ASCII file? (Y/N)/(Y/N) --------------- make your selection -------------- (Y)(Y) No Y Y,Y Y/Y Yes Yes - Import & Export Yes/Yes
OPTIONAL MODULES & SPECIAL FEATURES --------------- make your selection --------------
Graphical satellite display? --------------- make your selection -------------- n/a No Y Yes
Other modules & special features: --------------- make your selection -------------- **** 3M Dynatel cable locator suppo... Batch process dozens of USGS Q... Bluetooth capable Bluetooth capable and High Acc... Contact Distributor Digital Image capture and offs... Digital photograph linking Geodetics RTD Rover Option Grid mapping utility Integrated receiver with Recon Live database functionality Localization, translation, rot... Localization, translation, rot... MMGPS+ MMGPS+, Digital Image scanning... MobileMapper Office Note 1 Real Time Side Shot, Real Time... Roading, Volumes and other exp... Supports import/export GPX fil... Supports Import/Export GPX fil... Surfaces & Volumes, RoadRunner... Work in any NAD83 SPC or UTM Z...
Describe --------------- make your selection -------------- Data may be edited,changed or ... Integrated digital camera, til... Lat/Long, UTM, and SPC Convers... Millimeter vertical accuracy R... Millimeter vertical accuracy R... Millimeter vertical accuracy R... MobileMapper and MobileMapper ... Now with Dual Image capability... Revolutionary product for surv... Revolutionary product for surv... Software based RTK Engine