How to capture a screen shot from iPAD or iPhone?

Sometimes you may wish to capture a screen shot from your iCMTGIS or iGPSGIS application to incorporate it into a document file. For example,  you may want to include a few screen shots in your entry for the iCMTGIS application competition.

To do so, press the “Home” and “Power” buttons at the same time then release them.

You will hear a familiar camera shutter sound when the picture is snapped and automatically saved as a .JPG file into the Photos app on your iOS device

From the Photos app Camera Roll, you can email the photo file to your PC. If  you use a Mac, then you could synch it with your photo files on your iOS device.

iCMTGIS application competition – Win a PC-GIS PRO software license

GIS is not easy for everyone to learn. To help promote a better understanding of the usefulness of GIS,  CMTINC.COM welcomes you to submit a presentation demonstrating how you are using the iCMTGIS to achieve your GIS goal and  increase work efficiency. This will be helpful to the beginning GIS users.

Your submission will be entered into a contest with a chance to win a PC-GIS PRO software license valued at US$385.00. PC-GIS PRO is a powerful mapping program that will run on your PC or your MAC in PC mode. Among other things, it will let you prepare background maps for use on your iCMTGIS, import the data collected using iCMTGIS,  calculate statistics on the data, digitize Features  on the map, and print out the map.

Over the Year 2012, CMTINC.COM will offer the award to up to 12 different winning entrants for this competition.  CMTINC.COM will evaluate the entries and periodically post the winning entries at http://icmtinc.wordpress.com

Entries do not have to be long or elaborte. They will be judged based on the following merits:

Usefulness of the application

Helpfulness of the demonstration

Clarity of presenting the design, approach and result

How to enter:

Please submit your presentation to:

support@cmtinc.com

This contest will stay open until December 31, 1012.

By submitting your entry you agree to let CMTINC.COM post the contents of your entry at http://icmtinc.wordpress.com.

iCMTGIS II and iGPSGIS II coming soon

The iCMTGIS II for iPAD and iGPSGIS II for iPhone to be released in early March 2012 will have a number of software enhancements, including the following:

   1.   iOS5 compatibility – Feature Topic pattern/color assignment

   2.  Send/Get jobs via eMail

   3.  Support iCloud storage

We welcome your comments about these applications. If you have suggestions for other useful functionality, this is a good time to send them in. Thanks!

Can I use my PC to set up the Topics for a job?

Yes, you can run PC-GIS 09 on your PC or in the PC mode on your Mac and use it to create new Topics. You can set up description fields for each topic and also assign a symbol to it.

After you have saved the job as a .PMP file, you can copy it to the Documents folder for  iCMTGPS or iCMTGIS. Then you can work with these Topics in that .pmp job on your iCMTGPS or iCMTGIS.

Similarly, you could import shapefiles and digitize additional Features using PC-GIS 09 then save the .pmp job for use on your iCMTGPS or iCMTGIS.

A more precise stylus for iPAD and iPhone?

Quite a few people asked about a pointy stylus for using on their iOS device.  The design of the iPAD and iPhone capacitive touch screen requires a minimum contact area, on the order of a few mm (about the size of your fingertip) to work properly. This is why capacitive styluses tend to have fat tips.

For the ability to more accurately place your Point Features in the iCMTGIS or iGPSGIS app, you might check out the Adonit Jot Pro Capacitive Touch Stylus, and read the reviews of the other users for the pros and cons of this stylus design.

Within the iCMTGIS or iGPSGIS apps, you can increase the accuracy of dropping the points or vertices by zooming close into your map.

Can I attach a photo to a Feature?

The back-end mapping program, PC-GIS 09, will let you link one or more photos that you have taken at the work site to the relevant Feature. It will also let you link a video and a voice recording or an ODBC object to the same Feature.

Another CMT mapping program, PC-MAPPER 09, provides the option to automatically match the photo files to the Features based on time.