Strike and Dip app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
3872 ratings )
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Developer: Hunt Mountain Software
4.99 USD
Current version: 4.7, last update: 1 year agoFirst release : 31 Oct 2009
App size: 10.82 Mb
Strike and Dip turns your iPhone into a pocket transit. Take strike & dip measurements, bearings, plunge, and all that geological goodness, while simultaneously getting your latitude, longitude, and elevation. Save your measurements as notes, and add photos to your notes. Now also with maps (geological in the U.S. and some other parts of the world) that show the locations of all your saved data. Customizable to how you work: choose between azimuth and quadrant formats for bearings, three formats for coordinates, meters and feet, and three different formats for strike and dip.
Pros and cons of Strike and Dip app for iPhone and iPad
Strike and Dip app good for
Awesome. No more Brunton! Numbers are east to read. Interface is elegant.
App works great, have field tested it head to head againt brunton and this product delivers. Dont get issue other person complained about, their phone is peobably broken. You dont "calibrate" a gps driven compass or the phones internal orientation sensors.
Awesome app. So SOOO close to my transit. I have a new 3gs and it works good. No issues here.
Updated Review: Now that you can select feet instead of meters, this get five stars! Very handy.
Excellent app, but I would like to see the settings allow you to change from meters to feet. It seems that would be easy enough, but I am still hoping to see this happen. Until then, four stars only.
Some bad moments
On a level surface the dip display alternates between 0°, 45°, 63° etc. rapidly without settling down. On a 5° incline display alternates between 72°, 45°, 56° rapidly. No calibration option. A totally useless app and I want my money back.
I bought this before the recent upgrade and I couldnt get it to work. Now after the upgrade I find out that this app isnt compatible with my phone. The developers never indicated which phones this app is for or what additional apps are needed to make this work.
I used this application...not anymore. The upgrade will no longer work on my 3G. Must now have 3GS. Talk about planned obsolescence.
I have tried all thre Strike Dip apps available in the app store. THe other two work well...this one does not give a sensible reading on my iphone 4. The bearing readings are correct, but the Strike and Dip are not related to any orientation of the phone. Get one of the other ones instead of this one.
The numbers this app gives me dont seem to have any relation to reality. The Strike and Dip numbers I get are wildly off from what they should be. I have run the calibration, yet the app still thinks my phone is level when I have it tilted up about 30°. I just cant figure out where this app gets its numbers! It would be nice to rely on this rather than carry a Brunton, I need accuracy to make it useful.