Pull up a sturdy chair, let's fill up yer best flagon with the season's finest natural ale, and I'll tell you a dark tale of elf and woe. This app allows you to view the health of the Flex hardware, change settings, and perform firmware updates. And note that as nice as Apple iOS is about distributing GPS position info to all apps, it does not seem capable of sharing accuracy and satellites-in-use detail for the GPS built into some iPads (which also cost more with the GPS). I don’t think you’ll be disappointed, John, and I heard this today from one of the principal Elves: “Still lots of improvements and new features to roll out over the coming months, but the feedback from early adopters has been very positive. This is the free companion utility app for the Bad Elf Flex and Bad Elf Flex Mini -- our flexible, intuitive, and affordable survey-grade GNSS receivers.

Any hand held gps give you a signal without internet, but you have to revert to an inconvenient paper map. We didn't want to launch yet another generic external Bluetooth GPS receiver like those on the market today - so we're not. The real-time GPS data from a single GPS Pro can be used by up to 5 devices simultaneously - any combination of supported iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch devices.It won't maintain a fix for more than half a minute or so, and the accuracy will occasionally reach sub-1m for a second or two, but it doesn't seem to be logging any of the points I'm trying to record, and I wouldn't trust them even if it did since it regularly shows 0 of 0 satellites connected while reporting sub-10m accuracy. I work on a fire behavior team and someone picked one up for more accurate data for plot relocation. I now believe that GPS-based anchor alarm is dependent on logic to reject certain wrong fixes while alarming immediately on good fixes showing you adrift. Today I also asked Bad Elf about Android support, but I wasn’t very optimistic as iOS does Bluetooth differently and the Dual xGPS has a physical switch to go from iOS to other operating systems. The only problem is the IPad needs a cell signal to download maps unless you have previously downloaded any charts you may need.

Designed for GIS and survey professionals, the Bad Elf Flex and Flex Mini connect to your phone or tablet via Bluetooth and provide high-accuracy location data to ANY and ALL field data collection apps in your workflow. Note to readers: Let me emphasize that not many charting and mapping apps I tried could do what iSailor did. The Bad Elf app will also summarize Trip Details and thus you can see how fast and high I traveled during that 11/3 tracking session. I've also found that the communication between the app and the unit isn't reliable, which may be the crux of the problem.

Phone, tablet, notebook, and operating system agnostic, our GNSS receivers encourage companies to work on the platforms of their choosing. Der Preis ist sicher etwas hoch, relativiert sich aber, da keine monatlichen Folgekosten wie bei anderen Lösungen anfallen. Again, another far cheaper GPS tracker carried in my pocket and compared afterwards showed much more consistent readings. Link these solutions to collect and organize real-time data and, if you're into it, pipe it directly into ESRI ArcGIS for ultimate data orchestration.

The GPS Pro provides a battery life of up to 16 hours when connected to your iOS device via Bluetooth, and supports a GPS reporting rate of 10 times per second (configurable). hang this off your bow, or attach it to a float above your anchor, to reduce false alarms as a boat swings about? For those iOS owners with a non-GPS equipped device who are looking to add GPS, Bad Elf's dongle works perfectly. com to learn more about the Bad Elf GPS, GPS Pro/Pro+, and the GNSS Surveyor accessories, which add a high performance GPS receiver to the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad via the 30-pin dock connector, Lighting connector, or Bluetooth.This means it should work with any GPS app (some caveats apply in respect of those apps that expect a data connection - see below). We’ll also assume you agree to the way we use cookies and are ok with it as described in our Privacy Policy, unless you choose to disable them altogether through your browser. Learn to set it up with your device effortlessly, configure GPS accuracy, select data collection modes, and record tree data efficiently.