Great
A really solid, simple, clean GIS app that lets me do everything I need it to, and does it all really well
An Exceptional GIS app
Our company began using Touch GIS last year after using Garafa’s GIS Pro app for over a decade. We’ve used it for data collection for thousands of miles of corridors, spanning steep ridges, plains and public and private lands.
GIS Pro was very efficient, but with iPadOS updates, it was struggling to keep all the UI buttons, windows and icons from running off the screen or disappearing. Behind the scenes, I was putting in a lot of effort to keep the data collected clean and uncorrupted from encoding mismatches.
When using GIS Pro, I’d have to use the app on an iPad mini v1 running iPadOS 8 to create an exportable offline container file. Exporting the ‘cregion’ file would make every other GIS Pro app crash if it were running a newer iPadOS. I’d have to AirDrop these files to newer iPads for cloud distribution.
Switching to Touch GIS was very easy. The interface and workflow are similar to GIS Pro. Interactions are smooth, and creating feature class templates is far more flexible. Making detailed drop-down lists used to take hours. Now you can copy and paste lists from field to field and make edits quickly.
Offline maps are easy to define or import, with no 100MB limit per region. Attribute table text is reliably exported using UTF-8 encoding, eliminating the mojibake issues we faced previously.
Our field workers have used multiple apps from Esri and others, but far and above, prefer to use Touch GIS when creating or viewing GIS data. Because fields have greater flexibility and we haven’t had to rely on other apps like Excel, we’ve been able to significantly increase our data collection and processing efficiency.
The developer has been exceptionally responsive. Several improvements we requested—like enhanced offline mapping and UTF-8 compliant exports—were implemented quickly. It’s clear Touch GIS is actively developed and will continue to evolve.
While the app is free to install, exporting data to Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, GPX, CSV, and other standard formats requires a subscription. If you need a GIS app for work or research, probably the best way to decide to use Touch GIS would be to subscribe for a month and test out its abilities.
GIS Pro was very efficient, but with iPadOS updates, it was struggling to keep all the UI buttons, windows and icons from running off the screen or disappearing. Behind the scenes, I was putting in a lot of effort to keep the data collected clean and uncorrupted from encoding mismatches.
When using GIS Pro, I’d have to use the app on an iPad mini v1 running iPadOS 8 to create an exportable offline container file. Exporting the ‘cregion’ file would make every other GIS Pro app crash if it were running a newer iPadOS. I’d have to AirDrop these files to newer iPads for cloud distribution.
Switching to Touch GIS was very easy. The interface and workflow are similar to GIS Pro. Interactions are smooth, and creating feature class templates is far more flexible. Making detailed drop-down lists used to take hours. Now you can copy and paste lists from field to field and make edits quickly.
Offline maps are easy to define or import, with no 100MB limit per region. Attribute table text is reliably exported using UTF-8 encoding, eliminating the mojibake issues we faced previously.
Our field workers have used multiple apps from Esri and others, but far and above, prefer to use Touch GIS when creating or viewing GIS data. Because fields have greater flexibility and we haven’t had to rely on other apps like Excel, we’ve been able to significantly increase our data collection and processing efficiency.
The developer has been exceptionally responsive. Several improvements we requested—like enhanced offline mapping and UTF-8 compliant exports—were implemented quickly. It’s clear Touch GIS is actively developed and will continue to evolve.
While the app is free to install, exporting data to Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, GPX, CSV, and other standard formats requires a subscription. If you need a GIS app for work or research, probably the best way to decide to use Touch GIS would be to subscribe for a month and test out its abilities.
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Sewer Cleaning Company
What a fantastic addition to our tech tool belt. Mike is great and quick to respond with any questions or Suggestion you may have!!!
Mj
Thanks to the good team and the new update that solved the location registration problem.
Works great!
I am a water meter and Backflow tester. I have some customers in agriculture that have multiple wells in multiple areas. This app makes it easy to create a folder for each customer and can drop pins at each location with a description and pictures for each site. I have to test annually and sometimes it’s hard to remember each location. This app allows me to get a phone call from the customer and a site name and I have all the info and pictures to know exactly where the well is. The customer does not need to guide me after the first time. If I still don’t recognize the pictures, you can get directions from Apple Maps straight from the app. Highly recommend this app!! It can do so much more but for my small business I could not be happier. Mike the general manager answered all my questions when I sent a contact us request. Go download it now!!! 👍🏽
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