http://www2.arcwebservices.com/v2006/labs/awx_lab.do
Sorry if this is old news, it was the 1st I'd seen of it. I was bumping around on the site to look for some documentation for a "Proof-of-Concept" project I'm doing for a client and noticed that they now have a link availble. I'm going to see if I do a custom AWX project right now.
For the last 2 weeks in April, I've been doing deer & bird surveys. I always look forward to them each year. It's great to out there and get to see/hear interesting wildlife. We do a series of daylight cruise surveys of exotic & native deer for density & composition counts on a very large ranch in the western hill country. We start them at dawn and they last 3 hours. I drive from San Antonio to be there in the mornings so it makes for a VERY long day when you work till 6pm upon your return. The bird surveys are also in the mornings but they are local and don't take nearly as long.
I've been looking at the Atlas demo video Scott G. did and plan on using that in my next ASP.NET app. These past weeks I definitely fulfilled the "Write less code" item on Scott's ToDo list, I wrote NO code. Too busy just keeping things running when I get back from surveys and not enough time to do the interesting app development work. I am transitioning the reporting of these survey results to database systems instead of the old individual excel file system. I actually already transferred all the data reporting for the Bird surveys over to a MySql / PHP based web system as discussed in my last post.
The technique we use for the Deer surveys is called Distance Sampling. The data collection requires a GPS point at your 1st sight of the animal(s), Distance to animal(s), Bearing to animal(s), and then information on the animals themselves. We record the points & track in our GPS units and then download them using DNRGarmin and save them as shapefiles for processing using Hath's Analysis Tools for ArcGIS. The results are analyzed in DISTANCE. We also manually record the coordinates for each waypoint and all the other info. As you can imagine writing all the info and then having someone enter it all in, can be rather tedious.
I'm planning on writing a data collection interface for use with our Palms so we can eliminate that step. It should in theory be quite easy, but I've never written anything for Palm OS before. My idea is to output an XML file based on the data entered, sync the Palms with the desktop upon return, and then use the .NET XML to DB tools to quickly upload and combine all the separate XML file data. If anyone has tried this before or has some good suggestion or pointers on writing for Palm OS, I'd love to hear it.
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