1. Navigating Recreation Technology:
20 Tools in 20 Minutes.
Duane Wilkins
Geospatial Team
Department of Conservation
duwilkins@doc.govt.nz
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GeoCaching.com
● Join the world’s largest treasure hunt!
● Offline Lists – Download geocaches,
maps and more for a completely offline
geocaching experience.
● Field Notes and Offline Logging – Record
your geocaching finds from the field.
● Pocket Queries – Geocaching Premium
members can create custom,
downloadable searches.
● Trackables – Log trackables you find
while geocaching.
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GPS Test
● Displays GPS and sensor data: position
and signal strength of satellites, accuracy,
speed, acceleration, altitude, bearing,
pitch, roll and battery state.
● Tools included: compass with magnetic
and true north, leveling tool, mark or share
your location and navigate back later
using the Radar.
● Keep your GPS fast: reset it or download
A-GPS data regularly for faster fixes.
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GPS Status Toolbox
● Displays GPS and sensor data: position
and signal strength of satellites, accuracy,
speed, acceleration, altitude, bearing,
pitch, roll and battery state.
● Tools included: compass with magnetic
and true north, leveling tool, mark or share
your location and navigate back later
using the Radar.
● Keep your GPS fast: reset it or download
A-GPS data regularly for faster fixes.
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● Google Earth Pro is now free for all.
● Create your own Point, Line and Polygons
in 3D, including streetview.
● Create flythroughs, export to video, share
tours with others.
● Works offline using Cached imagery and
on mobile
● Search for locations
● Visualize your GPS tracks and share
● Go back in time with historical imagery
● Tutorials: https://www.google.
com/earth/learn/
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Google Maps
● Offline, Streetview, Directions, the most
detailed map content on the planet.
● Provides directions, interactive maps, and
satellite/aerial imagery of many countries.
● The most advanced consumer mapping
site available today, integrated search,
directions, places of interest,
photographs, streetview, and 3D views
including 3D buildings and landscapes.
● Mobile version provides spoken
navigation, traffic, shortest route,
roadworks etc.
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● Add and update map information for millions of
users to see in Google Maps and all apps that use
the Google Basemap.
● You can add and edit many different things on the
map, including:
● Places, like businesses, addresses, and other
locations, Natural features, like beaches.
New! - Local Guides.
● Local Guides is a global community of explorers
sharing their discoveries on Google Maps.
● Earn 200 points (~50 “reviews”) , and you’ll get
2 Terabytes of Google Drive storage for 2 years.
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MyMaps
● You can create custom maps
collaboratively to share online with
Google My Maps - can be nicely
embedded within a website.
● Works on Desktop and Mobile
seamlessly, with user/role based privacy -
Private, editor's, view with link only, and
public.
● Export to KML for Google Earth 3D
● Import from Excel and KML
● Tutorial http://www.google.co.
nz/earth/outreach/tutorials/mapseng_lite
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MyTracks
● My Tracks lets you record your path,
speed, distance, and elevation.
● View live GPS capture data.
● Annotate your path with text and photos
while you record.
● Photographs include direction and
bearing placement.
● Export your tracks to Google Drive, Google
Spreadsheets, or external storage.
● Works Offline
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● TourBuilder helps you craft and share a
story including text, maps, photos and
videos.
● Tour Builder is a new way to show people
the places you've visited and the
experiences you had along the way using
Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations
right on the map, add in photos, text, and
video, and then share your creation.
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● Explore all of Street View (including
contributions from others)
● Manage your private photo spheres
● Immerse yourself in photo spheres with
Cardboard mode
● Use your phone’s camera (no camera
accessories required)
● Connect to a spherical camera
● Share to Google Maps as immersive
photo spheres
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PhotoSpheres
● 3D PhotoSpheres, up down, all around,
just like Street View
● Can be made public, or kept private or
even just offline storage.
● The photo sphere camera mode on your
Android phone makes it easy to capture a
series of photos and automatically turn
them into a seamless 360º experience.
● You can also turn your DSLR camera
panoramas into photo spheres.
● Share and embed via Google+ posts.
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StorySpheres
● Story Spheres is a way to add stories to
panoramic photographs.
● First upload a PhotoSphere, a 360-degree
photo you can take on your phone.
● Then add dialogue, sound effects and
even a music track.
● Whoever opens the scene will get a
panoramic photo with sound and stories
baked in. Better still, on a phone the photo
wraps right around the viewer … so now
you can tell stories that truly revolve
around your audience
● Example
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Picasa
● One of the best image managers available
including location, editing,
synchronisation, and adding descriptions
to photos.
● Locate, move and plot photos on a map,
then view in other apps like Google Earth
● Puts a GPS XY into the photo itself.
● Manage your photos in albums, upload
and host by Google Photos.
● Private, Shared with friends or Public.
● Dowload: https://picasa.google.com/
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● Nest Finder provides comprehensive
information about all published DOC huts,
camp sites and visitor centres, as well as
i-SITEs, BBH hostels, YHA hostels, Holiday
Parks of NZ and Forest and Bird lodges
across New Zealand.
● More than 1600 places to stay, including
more than 1000 huts, 350 camp sites, 280
BBH hostels, 280 Holiday Parks, 50 YHA
hostels and all Forest and Bird lodges
● Tight DOC and YHA booking system
integration:
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PDF Maps
● Show GPS position over a map
● Measure distances and areas
● Overlay search engine results on any map
for offline use
● Handy map searching tools to find the
map you need
● Load your own Geospatial PDF, GeoPDF®,
GeoTIFF and JPG maps from the file
system, Dropbox, a URL, or email
● Enables data capture offline
● Full LINZ Topo 50k maps available for
free online!
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Strava
TRACK YOUR RUNS AND RIDES WITH GPS
● Follow routes you’ve created or found and
view your activity map as you record
● Get key stats like distance, pace, speed,
elevation gained and calories burned
● Collect heart rate data from Bluetooth
Low Energy sensors
● Follow friends
● Find places to run and ride throughout NZ
● Compete with others
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Ricoh Theta 360
● Full 360 x 360 degrees
Photo and HD Video
● Instant photo, 8 seconds to
transfer.
● The only affordable camera
that Connects and posts
immediately within
Streetview
● Remote preview and
adjustment from any
Smartphone
● Can be attached to drones
with kindling and sellotape
upside down
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NZ Topo Maps
● Easy to use outdoor navigation app with
most recent topographic maps of New
Zealand, Cook Islands and Tokelau.
● This app gives you similar mapping
options as you might know from Garmin
or Magellan GPS handhelds.
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Nikon P900
● Onboard GPS that works
● 16mpx
● Long lasting battery
● Aimed at advanced Snap and Shooters
with a wide range of useful shooting
modes
● Stereo video
● Fast focus
● 24 - 2000 mm 35m Equivalent.
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Cardboard
● 3D Earth: Fly where your fancy takes you
on Google Earth.
● Tour Guide: Visit Versailles with a local
guide.
● My Videos: Watch your videos on a
massive screen.
● Exhibit: Examine cultural artifacts from
every angle.
● Streetview: explore the world in 3D
● Youtube - View an increasing range of
surround 360 Video.
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24. Navigating Recreation Technology: 20 Tools in 20 Minutes.
Duane Wilkins
Geospatial Team
Department of Conservation
duwilkins@doc.govt.nz
maps.doc.govt.nz
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