Best GIS app in App Store
I've looked at every app in the App Store surrounding mapping and this is easily the best - outside of the ridiculously priced $300 apps which I didn't try. Highly recommended to anyone who wants offline shapefiles on their device. Two features I wish it had though are the ability to connect to WMS and to be able to click any line to get features without having to change the viewing layer that's active. Great work, hope it continues to be developed!
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Best GIS on iOS
For my needs, this is the best GIS / GPS app for iOS. You can quickly and easily load, view, and edit shapefiles in a streamlined interface without a bunch of hassle. For more complicated field data collection and editing, you might want ArcPad, but if you want to do something straightforward like locate yourself in relationship to GIS layers and add record features, iGIS is dramatically more enjoyable to use and has a fraction of the learning curve. Oh, and you can have layers with different coordinate systems!
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Awesome
This app is great if you are familiar with GIS. I work for a water utility and after loading in our shape files, this works like a dream.
Cool but misleading in some respects
I have been trying to find an easy-to-use GIS app to incorporate shapefiles and raster data into my daily fieldwork. I was excited to find this one, and it does have its perks. There are tons of choices for projections and the interface is pretty intuitive (with some major exceptions). There are quite a few inconveniences and drawbacks, however.
- To import raster data you have to have processed it using MapTiler, an open source software program that is only free if your images are smaller than a certain size (we are talking like 30 MB or less here) which is just not feasible for someone doing actual GIS work.
- All of the raster and shapefiles must be zipped and hosted on Dropbox (which is cool and convenient if you have enough space) - you can also use a USB.
- There is no intuitive way to add the imported layers to your project, and there does not appear to be a help file for the latest release, so this is somewhat frustrating (and as I write this I still have not figured out how to add my imported shapefiles).
- Would be nice if it displayed your location or coordinates anywhere in the free version since there are free apps that also do this.
- To import raster data you have to have processed it using MapTiler, an open source software program that is only free if your images are smaller than a certain size (we are talking like 30 MB or less here) which is just not feasible for someone doing actual GIS work.
- All of the raster and shapefiles must be zipped and hosted on Dropbox (which is cool and convenient if you have enough space) - you can also use a USB.
- There is no intuitive way to add the imported layers to your project, and there does not appear to be a help file for the latest release, so this is somewhat frustrating (and as I write this I still have not figured out how to add my imported shapefiles).
- Would be nice if it displayed your location or coordinates anywhere in the free version since there are free apps that also do this.
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Chump
All your files must be zipped to add. I don't have stuff zipped. What a pain. I like to add files from here and there. Looks cool though, probably won't use it.
No hassle point collector
I was looking for a quick app to collect points around town and this app lets you dive right in.
Great App
I'm really impressed by this app for the price. I've loaded a variety of shp files into it and it seems to work with them really well, in fact, possibly better than my Trimble Recon I.E. scrolling, getting attribute info... You can record points, lines, & polygons. Also, it caches Google Maps.
App Crashes
Works pretty good most of the time. Tends to crash a lot. Need to work that out
Excellent
Great app at a great price. I use this app almost everyday for work. One suggestion would be a way to download base map files to use in areas of no reception.
Veraltetes Kartenmaterial
Leider greifen die Versionen 6.0.0 und 6.0.1 wieder auf die veralteten Satellitenfotos von Google zurück - ein schwerer Rückschritt für meine Nutzung, da die bisherigen von Apple von 2012 in unserer Gegend deutlich aktueller sind. Eine entsprechende Anfrage per Mail an GEOMETRY blieb bisher unbeantwortet!
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Mixed feelings about new release
I've been loving the app and have bragged about its versatility. I use it everyday, all day in my work truck doing field work and in the office. All of my apple devices have it. My primary device is my 4th gen iPad with cellular. The app crashed frequently, especially when changing data settings. That was ok because I knew the update was coming. The phone version made me really excited because of the new map gestures and google maps. However the iPad app has been very frustrating. Constant crashing, lethargic map loading, and the failure of the zoom scale have plagued my device. The phone app has not crashed as often and is faster on the map loading. However the zoom scale is still dead. Hope you guys get this fixed! A little heads up on future fixes would be nice!
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A real work horse
This has to be the best free App ever. As an operator of a municapal sewage system, iGIS bring all of my office info out into the feild where its needed most. It is simply to operate once shape files are loaded and gives you the ability to edit data. All and all this would be a vaule at hundereds of dollars like the rest of my GIS software costs, yet its free!!!
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Good for free
For on the field, this app is great. Its not only free but if your working in vector model this is more then adequate. I've tried most of the gis apps in the app store and this is by far the most user friendly and it's free - GIS Student
Very good app for project work in the field.
Pros:
- Free!
- Able to import shapefiles (points, polygons, etc), reads attributes well.
- Streams Google satellite imagery and able to set alpha of layers
- Cool way to choose a "cover" image for your project
- Good performance
- Excellent support of projections and coordinate systems
- Works well with iTunes for importing/exporting custom data. Good instructions.
Cons:
- Easy to forget you are in "Identify" features mode when you mean to pan the map. Would also be nice if user could customize the size of the selection rectangle for "Identify" features mode.
- Raster images are compressed too much by the 3rd party maptiler software which is necessary to create compatible tiles. Would prefer if it could also handle KMZ files containing custom raster maps. The help file has decent instructions for using maptiler.
- Sometimes you have to press "Done" and re-enter the project for your custom raster maps to display despite enabling the layer's visibility.
- Occassional crashes when loading imagery/data but generally stable.
- Have to use (go to project info. screen and change "Editing Layer") an imported points layer containing points when adding waypoints in the field otherwise it gives an error, something about next feature ID not existing...
Well done The Geometry Team!
- Free!
- Able to import shapefiles (points, polygons, etc), reads attributes well.
- Streams Google satellite imagery and able to set alpha of layers
- Cool way to choose a "cover" image for your project
- Good performance
- Excellent support of projections and coordinate systems
- Works well with iTunes for importing/exporting custom data. Good instructions.
Cons:
- Easy to forget you are in "Identify" features mode when you mean to pan the map. Would also be nice if user could customize the size of the selection rectangle for "Identify" features mode.
- Raster images are compressed too much by the 3rd party maptiler software which is necessary to create compatible tiles. Would prefer if it could also handle KMZ files containing custom raster maps. The help file has decent instructions for using maptiler.
- Sometimes you have to press "Done" and re-enter the project for your custom raster maps to display despite enabling the layer's visibility.
- Occassional crashes when loading imagery/data but generally stable.
- Have to use (go to project info. screen and change "Editing Layer") an imported points layer containing points when adding waypoints in the field otherwise it gives an error, something about next feature ID not existing...
Well done The Geometry Team!
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GIS Mapper
This would be much more useful if it were able to read ESRI .prj files. Manually selecting your projection is not always user friendly and it is cumbersome.
Also, it would be much appreciated if it had Alaska state plane in feet like so many other states.
It is a rare app. I like the ability to read and write shapefiles. Especially the ability to store them local.
Also, it would be much appreciated if it had Alaska state plane in feet like so many other states.
It is a rare app. I like the ability to read and write shapefiles. Especially the ability to store them local.
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Fabulous !
A simple and very useful app. I'd pay good money for this but it's actually free, for now.
wish it would work
Have come back to this app after giving up on it due to it crashing. This version is worse than ever. Crashes constantly when editing. Wish it would work! In the past they have been good at responding. Lets hope they do now too and fix it finally.
Exceptionally good
Stunning application, both sophisticated and powerful and yet comparatively simple to use. Once you've figured out what the various menus do, it works brilliantly. It has revolutionised my field mapping - the kind of thing I've been waiting for for ages - thanks very, very much iGIS!
Super
Super App. Ich erstelle meine GIS-Daten im Büro mit Quantum-GIS und habe sie dank diesem Tool immer in der Hosentasche. Dank des eingebauten Webservers kann man in Sekunden seine Shapefiles vom PC auf das iPhone laden. KBZ und Zeichensätze werden umfangreich unterstützt, ebenso die Anpassung der Darstellung der Layer.
Und weiterentwickelt wird auch immer schön.
Perfekt!
Und weiterentwickelt wird auch immer schön.
Perfekt!
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Awesome.
This app is amazing, and it's free! I don't know of any other free app that allows creation, import and export of any sort if data. Once you figure out the interface, it's pretty easy to use too.
