Rockd

UW Macrostrat

About this app

Explore, learn about, and document your geologic surroundings! Whether you are a professional geoscientist or curious about the rocks around you and the stories they tell, Rockd allows you to explore and learn about the geologic record, contribute your own observations, and log your journey through the geologic record.

Features:
- Instant access to geologic and geographic summaries of your current location via a Dashboard
- Interactive global access to more than 140 geologic maps, with more being added weekly
- See your past location and explore paleogeographic maps from C.R. Scotese and GPlates
- Explore published literature containing mentions of mapped geologic units (when available) via GeoDeepDive
- Elevation data for most points on Earth from SRTM, GMTED, NED and ETOPO1
- Add your own field observations even offline; tag features from Macrostrat and the Paleobiology Database
- Record strike/dip or trend/plunge for geologic features, using your phone's compass
- Track your progress through the geologic record privately, or share it with others
- See the public activity of other users and share your own and other public checkins using unique URLs

Rockd is produced by the Macrostrat lab in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Support provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Dept. of Geoscience.

Experiencing issues? Send an email to [e-mail] and we will do our best to help you resolve it.

Ratings and reviews

I love it. But it NEEDS. A. TERRAIN. LAYER. Would also be nice if the map moved with your position. Update 8/29/22: I don't know if it was inspired by my review, but thank you so much for the terrain layer! Glad it doesn't reset the position every time I come back to the app too. Everything else is great. Spectacular update!

I really like the idea of this app, and some of the features are nice. But, on my dashboard screen, some of the info boxes overlap, making them unreadable. Also, I have tried like 5 times to create an account, and it simply won't do it. I enter all info, and it takes me to the login screen...and nothing. Says an account doesn't exist for the email that I just entered. Pretty frustrating.

Great app, especially love the relevant literature results in search. UX needs some work. Search is my main use for the app, and it's annoying that it's hidden in a menu on the map view instead of surfaced on the dashboard. It's also surprising that mapping is not just part of the dashboard to begin with (if screen size is an issue, just make the stratigraphy information collapsible).

What's new

Improvements:
- Add paper "snippets" via xDD
- Improve display of long outcrop descriptions
- Synchronize privacy policy with website

Bug fixes:
- Fix photo and camera roll access
- Improve login experience
- Fix private checkin toggling
- Fix checkin updates from EXIF data
- Allow more trips to be loaded