Mobile Mapping application for MobileMapper 6
Magellan's Mobile Mapping software provides easy-to-use and simple yet professional and effective GIS data collection capabilities. Use this application to create and update maps for analysis and maintenance in a standard GIS system.
This is an ideal solution for such GIS professionals as foresters, farmers, safety personnel, utility workers, and anyone who manages positioned assets in the field.
The Mobile Mapping application includes all GPS features that GIS professionals really need without the burden of complicated and rarely used functions. The software is very intuitive and easy-to-use, requiring a minimum of training, making it easy to work with complicated and unfamiliar GIS data sets.
Applications
Forestry and Environment
The highly sensitive MobileMapper 6 GPS receiver together with the easy-to-use Mobile Mapping application performs very well in difficult signal environments such as under dense foliage. Applications include management of forestry, wetland delineation, environmental protection or vegetation mapping.
Agriculture
Ideally suited for agricultural applications, MobileMapper 6 gives you the power to make accurate area and boundary measurements on native, fallow or cultivated parcels of land. MobileMapper 6 is an excellent tool for mapping fields that may be eligible for subsidies payments or insurance.
Public Safety
The rugged exterior and versatility of software applications make the MobileMapper 6 the first choice for Public Safety planning. Creation of first-response plans, mapping fire boundaries, crime location, disease incidence and storm damage mapping are conveniently done on-site with one simple tool.
Utilities and Oil & Gas
The MobileMapper 6 is able to take any supported mapping file into the field, update it and transfer it back to the office GIS. This enables any utility worker to navigate to field infrastructure, update the GIS data with any modifications made and easily transfer this file back to the office.
Mobile Mapping offers powerful yet easy-to-ease GIS data collection features. Key GIS data-logging capabilities include:
- GPS data collection and navigation capabilities
- Support for vector layers in shapefile format for point, line and area data collection
- Continuous data collection and averaging
- Area and perimeter calculation in the field for real-time area determination
- Structured attribute information definition for each feature, including text, numeric, date, area, perimeter or picture attributes
- Support for a built-in digital camera for image association with a particular feature
- Possibility to offset measures for all feature types including point, line and area for logging hard-to-reach features
- Nesting, allowing additional points collection while mapping a line or area
- Support for raster data geo-referenced images in TIFF, JPEG and Bitmap formats
- SBAS corrections activation and de-activation
- Navigation and guidance to an existing feature for thepurpose of GIS data maintenance
- Pre-defined (national and international) and user-defined / custom coordinate systems
Magellan Mobile Mapping for MobileMapper 6 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between MobileMapper CX and MobileMapper 6?
The MobileMapper CX is a larger, higher-end Windows Mobile device for users that need sub-meter in real-time and sub-foot post-processed readings. The MMCX allows for a wider variety of graphic content generation and is also the better option for organizations with multiple users, due to its advanced customization abilities. For a smaller projects where 2-meter accuracy is acceptable, the MobileMapper 6 will do the job.
What is the difference between Mobile Mapping for MobileMapper CX and Mobile Mapping for MobileMapper 6?
In addition to the differences in the units, the Mobile Mapping application for the MMCX (higher-end) has four major features not found in the Mobile Mapping application for the MM6:
- GIS feature libraries for logging feature descriptions
- Repeat feature function for rapid logging of features with identical descriptions, e.g. poles along a road
- Grid mapping utility for collecting evenly distributed measurements (water depth, chemical concentration, etc.) required for contour map generation
- Software feature for collecting raw data for post-processed differential correction
In (close to) layman's terms, the higher-end solution is the one to use for collecting larger amounts of similar data, and for post-processing. If, for example, one were tasked with sending out a team to map every manhole cover in Manhattan, the MMCX app would allow you to set up a feature library so each user would only have to log coordinates, a note on the condition, and the street it's on; the users would then input all the data into the PC, and have an easy-to-access and homogenous data set with everyone's information collected in the same manner. On the lower-end application, each user would be setting up the data fields his or herself, meaning that if one user decides to, say, use a different abbreviation style to name each point, or forgets to input the cross-streets, you'd have to re-do the project from scratch! And of course, if you need sub-meter accuracy, you'll need the higher-end solution anyway.
Can I install other programs on MobileMapper 6?
MobileMapper 6 is an open platform, allowing one to install, theoretically, any Windows Mobile 6 compatible software, whether a mapping application or not. Magellan's ProCommunity web site (http://procommunity.magellangps.com) provides a long, but not exhaustive, list of different 3rd party applications that are compatible with the platform.
What are all these different "Mobile Mapper" and "Mobile Mapping" products, anyway? How do I tell the difference?
The MobileMapper CX is the high-end solution, and replaces the MobileMapper CE. The MobileMapper 6 is the budget solution, and replaces the MobileMapper Pro. The MMCX can be used with ArcPad or Magellan Mobile Mapping software for data collection and logging, along with MobileMapper Office software, for post-processing and further data processing. The MM6 can also be used with ArcPad or its own Mobile Mapping software, which lacks some of the features of the MMCX's Mobile Mapping option (see above). The Mobile Mapping for the MMCX and Mobile Mapping for MM6 are different applications. The simplest way to avoid confusion is to order the unit already bundled with a software package, saving you money and headaches!
