On 28.8.2014 10:11, Roddy Muir wrote:
> FieldMove for tablet pc's is a cut-down version of Move which has been optimized for use with a stylus on a Windows machine. If you have a powerful tablet (e.g. a Microsoft Surface Pro, Panasonic ToughPad, Xplore etc.) then you can take the whole of Move into the field with you.
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The idea of FieldMove as a lightweight field version of Move (and
hearing that MVE is actually producing it for the cause and not for
profit) is certainly great, kudos to MVE. The new breed of cheap and
lightweight Windows-based 8" to 10" tablets seems an excellent (and
disposable) choice for field work, and the Intel Atom processor which
they normally use provides much longer battery time.
However, in our experience FieldMove is really slow on those machines,
or indeed on anything that is not a high-end machine like the Surface
Pro. We were also disappointed that the 2014 version fo FieldMove is 64
bit only - many of the small tablets come with Win 8 32 bit and with 2
GB of RAM, so we're currently stuck with 2013 version of the software.
I really, really like the field-geologist-centric design of FieldMove,
but would really want to see it being made feasible to run on cheap
Windows tablets, which even students increasingly own. I know it's a
difficult bet to make as the trends are changing quickly - who knows
whether Windows tablets will prevail against Android and Ipad ones - but
for us the possibility to run other Windows apps on our field machines
apps is a big bonus.
One other idea: would it be possible to tether FieldMoveClino running on
a cell phone to a FieldMove on a Windows tablet via the Bluetooth
connection? Not all tablets have orientation sensors and their
form-factor is not neccessarily practical for making orientation
measurements - so I envisioned having the cell phone as the electronic
geological compass which would wirelessly feed measurements to FieldMove
on Windows tablet.
Best regards, Marko
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Assoc. Prof. Marko Vrabec
Department of Geology
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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