We want to hear your feedback on the Emlid Flow features. Are you an Inverse/Traverse aficionado or a fan of the Auto collection tool? Can’t imagine your work without Surfaces? Tell us about your favorite Emlid Flow features and take a chance to win a 1-year Survey Plan!
To enter the giveaway, make a post in this group:
Share in this thread which Emlid Flow tools are most helpful for your work and why.
If you haven’t tried the Survey Plan yet, explore all the features and let us know which ones are most valuable to you.
We are giving away one 1-year and three 3-month subscriptions. The winners will be selected randomly in a draw.
Deadline for entries: September 30th.
P.S. If you have feature requests, please send them to support@emlid.com.
Hi , We have been using Field Genius years prior to now for in field cogo features and localization , but now with the new Flow subscription app I don’t use it anymore , Flow has enabled me to add a point with the Transverse right in the field and with its very simple layout of the app it very easy to do . Also the localization is a big one for us as we get a cad drawing and in a few minutes your ready to layout the points or lines . I also use the app and rovers for use on a motor scraper to level sites and make slopes , for level I collect a point of elevation I want and stakeout that point with the cut and fill indicator, same with slopes the option to make a line between two point or collect a line is huge , and then stake the line with the cut and fill indicator as well. With these 3 improvements over the last year (localization, drawing points and lines in app , and custom background layers) I am only using flow for all our projects . Emlid has come a long way with the app since we started with our first RS when it came out . What got us started with Emlid was we need some survey work done on our site in 2017 and @Brent_W came out and had a makeshift rtk system in containers and I asked him what that was and what brand and at what price , he said for about a 1000 bucks that got me hooked ever since. Thanks a lot , keep up the good works and improvements
Inverse/Traverse is great tool. I feel like since I started using EMLID flow Survey plan. You guys have added more tools and making it more useful for us in the field.
Stake-out tools for me are the biggest benefit. We use a drone to get field contours, process that into our CAD package, design Farm Ponds and effluent fields, and then re-use the Emlid base and tools to mark these designs accurately back into the field for construction.
So much faster and accurate than what we ever used to do!
The turn around times are so much quicker now!
My favourites are the import & export tools! Easy to export KML file to Google Earth.
Only issue having to explain to people why Google Earth points might not be showing on the right place. Using Google Earth “Historical Views” is the best way to convince people the points are right and Google projection is not quite right…
My other favourite would be Map Layers - WMS/WMTS import if I could get it to work… (more in another thread in a bit…)
Apart from that - I love the ease of use. I don’t use Flow often (it is not my job - but hobby) - so getting back up to speed takes very little time - but I still wish for having “profiles” for settings that would make it easy to change to “presets”. So make it easy to go from Rover to Base with all setting saved. So a profile could be “Mount Point 1” with coordinates and all settings ready for Mount Point 1 - including absolute position etc. as it was setup LAST time.
Can you elaborate on it? Do you use the coordinates of the point in Google and see that the coordinate and place on a map don’t always “overlap”? Google uses the WGS84 coordinate system.
Thank you for creating a separate thread! We will answer to you there.
Google Earth Sat views are not aligned correctly - photo’s are only aligned almost correctly at the centre point from where the image was taken.
So when you go though historic images - and put measurement points on - you will see your measurement point stay static - but Sat image below move up to 3-4 meters in N/S/E/W directions. (So more than continental drift for the amount of historical sat images available)
It is probably due to lens distortions and capture angles vs the subject you are looking at.
We really enjoyed your thoughts about Emlid Flow, thanks for sharing in this thread and our Facebook user group!
Now, it’s time to announce the winners of the Survey plan subscriptions!
The 1-year subscription goes to Gabriel Acosta.
The 3-month subscriptions go to Armando Martinez, Alex Disla, and @brianC!
