Trilobite Solutions – Phone app 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

More ..

Trouble-shooting tips

Prospecting & QGIS Courses

WA soil & drillhole assay data

40e permit tips (WA)

App features

Ideal app for prospectors, fossickers, geologists, earth science students & educators
Designed specifically for the great outdoors – including the remotest parts of Australia and New Zealand – no mobile reception is required.
All maps and data layers cover an entire state, so populating your phone with the offline maps and data layers for your trip is fast and simple – and a typical phone will easily store all the maps and data layers for an entire state, and even a number of states.
Your trails, marked locations (‘way-points’) and your personal details are not collected by the app, so are absolutely private to you.
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)
Good interactivity with Google Earth & QGIS
$11.99 AU/year (free 1-week trial ) for the app (all the above & screenshots below)
Specialist gold prospector maps cost extra – use the app menu to see subscription details and prices – or look at the full app description on Google Play or the App Store.

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 Australian Geology Travel Maps 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 App developer
Trilobite Solutions

Subscribe to our newsletter