We recently purchased a Reach RX with the survey plan and use it for stake out.
We normally have the project data as DXF and would like to use them as background map for orientation on the field. However the DXF upload creats only black lines and points, which may be good for direct stake out, but not for orientation. The stake out points are uploaded seperatly as CSV.
I used a workaround with our Mapserver to create a WMS. This creates the map how we need it. But this workaround is to complicated and it should be possible for everyone to easily create a map with a usable background.
Is there another way to upload data only as background? Or can you suggest another easier workaround?
+1 this a really good point, a separate background layer for reference vector data as described above would provide many benefits including:
Would look different to differentiate it from real data, both stake out & collected.
Option to make the background data either active or visual only so no more accidentally selecting the wrong point.
Turn on/off one or more background layers as needed for better flexibility.
Export would only export valid data. Currently after exporting (everything) you have to spend a lot of time in the office weeding back out all the points you loaded for reference only. And there’s no way in Flow to select and remove bulk points first, each individual point currently requires 5 separate touch actions to delete. And that’s after spending a lot of time figuring out which are the ones you really want to delete and the risk is there’s no going back after the wrong one is deleted…
Field Genius Android does background layers (XREF) well
And local background bitmap images is still needed
Thank you for sharing this feature request! Yes, the current workaround for working with background layers is to use WMS. But I agree that having such a feature out of the box would simplify the process. I’ve noted your +1 for this feature and will bring it up with the team.
Here in Holland we have dens underground utility networks. We often need to stake out different cable vectorization. For this we import dxf data into the Emlid Flow app, but when different cables are close to each other it is very hard to find and select the right one for stakout. It would be of great help when we could import the dxf data by layer, with its corresponding colour setting, so we can see the difference in the various vector data. It would also improve if we could turn on/off the line- and point name labels in the Emild Flow app. We can do this in the Emlid flow 360 environment but not in the app for as far as I know?
we could import the dxf data by layer, with its corresponding colour setting, so we can see the difference in the various vector data.
We don’t have this function on Emlid Flow for now but we see this feature request it would be a nice adding to our application. I added as a feature request and we will let you know if we have any updates about it.
improve if we could turn on/off the line- and point name labels in the Emild Flow app. We can do this in the Emlid flow 360 environment but not in the app for as far as I know?
Yes, this function is available only for the Emlid Flow 360.
We agree having this functions would be really useful for the users. I’ve noted your requests and will bring it up with the team.
This easy background data feature is the only thing I find is missing for our type of work. It makes me hesitant to only use Emlid flow because of this missing feature and have to rely on other apps that already have this integrated to simplify our survey needs.
Would be nice to add different background data by Layers which could be turned on/off as needed. We often have different survey zones in a same project and we like to easily identify them. In an other app, we use different colours for each layers to identify the zones.
Thank you for detailing what you would like to see added to the Emlid Flow app in the future. I’ll also forward this feature request to our development team for consideration.
