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Does anyone know of / can recommend an android app that will allow someone to talk a walk, log the GPX and then map it to google maps or OS maps?
I've just been sent the Natural Resources Wales' forestry plan for Gwydir and they're going to cut down a fuckload of trees here, replanting with confierous. So - standard profit-driven forestry.
They have 24 objectives apparently, of which economics is only one - but biodiversity net gain, increasing the amount of decidious woodland, preservation for utility is another. So the one economic one is, of course, outweighing all the others.
A cursory look at their mapping has shown that they're not doing the statutory - mapping waterways and setting up exclusion zones around them. They've also clearly mischaracterised large swathes of the forestry, claiming mixed is pure evergreen and plantation-over-ancient is fair game. Which just shows that they've not been doing their job with surveys correctly.
I want to spend a bit of time mapping the waterways, so I can at least give them that data so they can meet their statutory requirements - or at least end up mandating that they have to do surveys before felling starts.
So, I need something where I can just stick GPX on, stick my phone in my pocket, occasionally take it out and take a photo of a feature they need to be aware of, then overlay it on google or something like that.
Any ideas?
(Plus - I want to use it when I dig up 350m of my land to wang a new water pipe in to my house - so I have a record).
I've just been sent the Natural Resources Wales' forestry plan for Gwydir and they're going to cut down a fuckload of trees here, replanting with confierous. So - standard profit-driven forestry.
They have 24 objectives apparently, of which economics is only one - but biodiversity net gain, increasing the amount of decidious woodland, preservation for utility is another. So the one economic one is, of course, outweighing all the others.
A cursory look at their mapping has shown that they're not doing the statutory - mapping waterways and setting up exclusion zones around them. They've also clearly mischaracterised large swathes of the forestry, claiming mixed is pure evergreen and plantation-over-ancient is fair game. Which just shows that they've not been doing their job with surveys correctly.
I want to spend a bit of time mapping the waterways, so I can at least give them that data so they can meet their statutory requirements - or at least end up mandating that they have to do surveys before felling starts.
So, I need something where I can just stick GPX on, stick my phone in my pocket, occasionally take it out and take a photo of a feature they need to be aware of, then overlay it on google or something like that.
Any ideas?
(Plus - I want to use it when I dig up 350m of my land to wang a new water pipe in to my house - so I have a record).
