Rockd

University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Apps

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.

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Ratings and reviews

Update: I have been using this app for some time now, no issues, no problems. Until a weeks ago everything was fine, now it stopped working, uninstall/re-install, works once, then nothing. My phone and settings have not changed... A geologist pointed me in the direction of Rockd, I have found this the most useful app basically for everything I do rockhounding. I feel that I have mentioned the more than 100 times in my posted and comments online, reaching thousands of people.

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.

Excellent app that has no comparison elsewhere. The only reason its 3/5 stars for now is there are some quality of life functions that should be added, or I would suggest could be added: 1. be able to filter local check ins according to a radius you set on map, then able to filter them by most recently posted, most liked, etc. 2. Have the map not reset you to your exact location whenever you back out of reading a check in, making you scroll back in the map to where it was to read more in area

What’s new

- Removed automatic "go to location" on map
- Improved map interactions for performance and usability
- New "What's New" modal on app launch after update
- Various bug fixes and performance improvement