Trilobite Solutions – Phone apps with offline geology & exploration data covering all of Australia & New Zealand

Testimonials

Apple – install/update app
iPhone, iPad (important) or Macbook (important)

Android – install/update app
Android phone or tablet

Important info

Backup locations/trails

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Trouble-shooting tips

WA soil & drillhole assay data

Prospecting & QGIS Courses

40e permit tips (WA)

App features

Ideal app for prospectors, fossickers, geologists, earth science students & educators
For Android and Apple phones and tablets, and MacBooks
State-wide maps and data covering all of Australia and New Zealand are downloaded to your phone so there is no dependancy on mobile reception in the field
Simplified & detailed geology maps
Terrain is shown on the geology maps, so are understandable to non-geologists
Old mine workings, gold, gem and other metal finds
Mining & exploration tenement information for all states
Interactive maps & data layers – tap on maps/layers to view written information
Spoken geology – the app can tell you when the geology changes as you drive
Aero-magnetic imagery for all states
Bush-walking tracks available for all Australia and New Zealand
Record your trail, so you can retrace your steps
Record notes on important locations (colour-coded)
Your trails and marked locations are absolutely private
Good interactivity with Google Earth & QGIS
$11.99 AUD/year (free 1-week trial ) for the app (all the above & below)
Specialist gold prospector maps extra – see ‘Subscriptions’ for details

Tenement data & bedrock geology, Western Australia

Maximise battery life
When you are in the field with little or no reception, we suggest that you put your phone into flight mode. Then your phone won’t be hunting for mobile reception, using up your battery.

Acknowledgements
Thanks to the government organisations – Australian and New Zealand – that provide their high-value data as Open data.

About Trilobite Solutions

Experience
The author of Australian Geology Travel Maps is a geologist and software developer with over 35 years experience in information technology, including working in the mining and exploration industry and for Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of NSW.

Open Source
Trilobite Solutions uses and contributes to Open Source software. This is used extensively in app development and data systems, for example, Ubuntu (linux) running PostGIS (a spatial database) and QGIS (an excellent free geographic information system). Open source desktop applications are used in both the Mac and Ubuntu environments.

Quality, Dependability & Simplicity
The driving design philosophies for all software development is quality, dependability and simplicity. Apps need to make life simpler – and they must be totally reliable. The interface to the Trilobite Solutions apps is kept as simple as possible, and small hints guide the new user. Quality is the top priority in all aspects of development. Industry best practice defined by Google, Apple and the Open Source community are followed with all functionalities. And you are not on your own after you install the app – any stability issues with the apps are reported to Trilobite Solutions via a Google-provided monitoring system.

Field testing
Extensive hours of computing work has gone into the creation and development of the app, including the creation of maps, but to create a good field app requires first-hand experience in the field, and extensive testing in the environment that the app is designed for. Australian Geology Travel Maps is tested by the author regularly in the field in various locations around Australia.

Enjoy!
We hope you develop a fascination for geology and its relationship to landscapes, and you enjoy using your Trilobite Solutions app in the great outdoors of Australia and New Zealand. If you are reading this from overseas, come over and see for yourself!

David Collins
Geologist and Developer
Trilobite Solutions

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