Tuesday, October 20, 2020

SMASH 1.6.0 is out - all the love for geopackage

A couple of days ago we released SMASH 1.6.0 to the stores. So why is this post coming only now?

Because Google store changed its policy for apps that use background location and is making me life impossible to get a release to the store. Since I am still waiting to understand why I am doing what wrong, I decided to make this post anyways and place the apk of the android version as a download.

Basically this release brings out all the love we have for the geopackage format.

Geopackage geometry editing

We finally have a first version of SMASH with vector editing. Last week I shared a video in which editing has been showcased. Well, not much has changed since that day, so to have a look at editing, just have a look at this. I guess it is better than 500 screenshots I would place here below  :-)


Geopackage export

We have been thinking a lot about the geopackage format. We were tempted to migrate the internal geopaparazzi/SMASH format to geopackage directly, but then we decided it would be better to keep the current format to maintain backward compatibility and compatibility with geopaparazzi.

Since many people see Geopackage also as a good "transfer" format from mobile to PC, we added a new export option. It is now possible to export the complete survey as a single geopackage with everything in it.

 

A minor change (but one I like) is that the GPS notification message on Android is dynamic. It shows a lot of nice information about the current state of the GPS, position and logging status.


Where to download for Android?

Until the issue with the google store is not sorted out, please get your copy of SMASH 1.6.0 HERE.