Solocator - GPS Field Camera

Civi Corp

In-app purchases

About this app

Solocator is a GPS camera for fieldwork. Overlay and stamp photos with GPS location, compass direction, altitude, date & time taken + with Industry Pack (In-App Purchase) capture editable notes such as project name and photo description, street address and UTM/MGRS coordinate formats. It can auto save 2 photos to camera roll at once - Stamped photo and original photo. You can also view photo direction and location in map view and navigate there. So now you will always know where and when a photo was taken and how to get back there.

TAILOR THE INFO YOU CAPTURE
You can choose what information you want to overlay on your photos to suit your fieldwork.

Choices include:
- GPS Location (Latitude & Longitude in various formats) ± Accuracy
- Compass Direction – Bearing
- Altitude (Metric & Imperial units)
- Date & time
- Show Compass
- Show Cardinal points in Building mode; e.g. North or South Elevations of a building face.
- Option to use abbreviations or Unicode characters for direction, position and altitude.


WORKING WITH CAPTURED INFO
- Options to take and auto save two photos to Camera Roll at once; one with stamped info and the other as an original photo.
- Photos are sorted by time, location, distance from current location and by project name (if Industry Pack is purchased).
- View photo direction and location in map view and navigate there
- Save photos with metadata in Exif format to camera roll
- Export photos to Google Drive and Dropbox
- Share photos on Facebook & Twitter
- Email photos from within the app including:
• Exif metadata
• Compass Direction
• GPS Position ± accuracy
• Altitude
• Date & Time taken
• Street address (if selected)
• Elevation of building face viewed (if selected)
• Links to maps so receiver can navigate there easily


INDUSTRY PACK (In-App Purchase)

EDITABLE NOTES
Stamp your photos with "Project name" & "Description". The project name field could be used as job or policy number etc. You can also go back and amend project name or description or just add the notes later when you’re in the office.

YOUR WATERMARK
Customize your photos by stamping your own watermark. e.g. company name, team or photographer name.

STREET MODE
Selecting street mode overlays photos with street address.

ADDITIONAL COORDINATE FORMATS
UTM and MGRS grid coordinate formats

CUSTOM EXPORTING & EMAILING
Export or email multiple photos and photo info in KML, KMZ or CSV formats. Attach maps of photo locations along with your photos when exporting or emailing.
Select your combination of photos, maps and captured info in the file formats to suit your needs. Export/email photos individually or as a zip file.

REFINE AND LOCK GPS LOCATION
Ideal for those working in and around buildings; to improve your GPS location. You can also use it to lock the position of the asset or subject you’re photographing as opposed to where you’re standing.

SWITCH OFF CAPTURE MODES – GREATER FLEXIBILITY
Switch Compass, Building and Street modes off and just show GPS info bar on top of photos. Gives you more flexibility on what and how you overlay info and show more of the photo.

IMPORTANT NOTE - DEVICES WITHOUT A COMPASS
From v2.18 we have made Solocator accessible for incompatible devices that do not have a compass. These devices are without a magnetometer (magnetic sensor), which means the compass and some direction features in the app wont function as designed. However, when you change/update to a device with a compass all directional features will be enabled to work as intended.

Ratings and reviews

Terrible app. Is not stable, changes view and stamps on its own, meaning your work is destroyed. The settings will not lock, and, they are NOT the same as shown in the manual. That is, the features on the full version are not working, so, the manual is useless. Now, the app is saving my stamped photos as "file" format so I cannot open them from a computer or save them elsewhere. It's totally useless and a lot of time wasted.

I've been using this app for four years now and it has been great for capturing site photos with time/date/direction/bearing stamps. Only criticisms: The direction/bearing stamp is too bold on the screen and should be maybe 50% thinner. Sometimes the captured direction is inaccurate (east vs west); not sure how to calibrate in the app. Finally, deleting photos in the app is a pain as it doesn't keep your photos selected when you scroll down to select more for deletion.

Does the advertised job of overlaying photos with location and direction data. It also embedded exif data just fine. The photos I took imported into Google Maps with no problem. It's a little buggy, though. For a while, it took two photos without the overlay for each one photo with the overlay. Also, it turned my flash on and kept it on like a flashlight. I was also not thrilled to pay for a nap, and then it be immediately offered to pay more for an in-app purchase. the price of the app is low, so it's not that big a deal. But it sure is tacky.

What's new

• Added a selection of photo sizes for KMZ files.
• Added photo number as an option in user defined photo marker titles in KML/KMZ files.
• Bug fix to include photo details for outlook email users.