Einde van "life"? voor ArcPad? Jeetje!

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<\/HEAD>Ik heb sinds 2002 volledig vertrouwd op ArcPad toen ik veldwerk deed op Rota, CNMI voor een verlenging van de luchthavenstartbaan (de bouw is eindelijk voltooid!). Op plaatsen zoals die in de Pacific-eilanden, en zelfs op veel locaties in Hawaii, eigenlijk alle eilanden met heuvels, valleien, enz. in afgelegen gebieden, is er beperkte tot geen mobiele telefoonservice. Ik heb ArcPad nodig. Moet ik oude versies van deze software opkopen om mijn bedrijf draaiende te houden? Misschien zijn de meeste ESRI mensen niet zo hardcore veldwerkers als sommigen van ons. Werken met straten, enz. is een heel ander beroep. Ik denk dat ik naar Terrasync zou kunnen gaan, maar ArcPad is zo basis en nuttig!<\/P><\/BODY><\/HTML>

JoshuaBixby · Answer

I agree BadElf makes some good value products.  I am not sure BadElf GNSS Navigator is part of the current product line.  The companies website lists:  GNSS Surveyor ($600), GPS Pro+ ($300) and GPS Pro ($200).

curtvprice · Answer

Eugene,

Esri is pretty good about keeping old things working, even though they have extended support through 2021 I would be surprised if it didn't keep working for you.  (Believe it or not, I can still run Arc/INFO under Win 10 [sort of, the help does not work anymore] ArcInfo Workstation Guidance‌) - was just using it the other day to import old .dlg files : old school!  So what you have you can keep using.

But I do strongly encourage you to look into the new offerings, the field apps that work with AGOL over the last three years have been updated to really well off line using onboard GPS (all iPhones have one) and higher accuracy external GPS (by bluetooth) (including basemaps) - you can disconnect and work without internet connection and when you get back in service everything synchs up. One positive development I just heard of is that they are looking at consolidating the many different apps into one with more features. You may need some new hardware but some of the new stuff is so awesome and easy to use with these apps, for example BadElf GNSS Surveyor (1-2m for $600) or their new BadElf Flex which can give you cm accuracy from a $3K device anywhere (except the polar areas).

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