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by _NothingSpecial_

Visually beautiful. Clear on-screen layouts and useful outdoor navigational information in the theodolite and compass apps. Altimeter…meh, informative but not eye-catching but maybe that’s its point (?). Weather? Yeah, there are hundreds of apps that do that, so it’s not really the selling point of the app. However, I am very disappointed that (1) the bundle does not include the Apple Watch apps and the various datum sets and (2) even more puzzled/peeved that the purchase of the datum for one app in the bundle does not make those datum available for use with the other apps in the set. It doesn’t really seem like a “bundle” especially when there are other apps available from other vendors that do as much but without the “nickel and dime” price escalation every time you open the preferences. In short, I’m pleased with the compass (on the phone) but will likely not find use for the rest of the apps as they each require additional purchases for base map datum($3) and localized maps/state plane coordinates ($25).

by ISXDesign

I think the Theodolite app is very well designed. However, it relies on the compass in the iPhone 7 plus to be accurate. That's a big problem! All iPhone 7 plus phones have a worthless compass in them... I can't use the Theodolite app for anything real because all of the data that would need an accurate compass heading is wrong by incredible amounts.
If you Google the compass issue on iPhone 7, you'll see everyone has pretty much the same issue and only Apple can fix it but they don't have much interest!
So... Theodolite is good, maybe on other phones other than 7's... not useful on a 7 plus.

by Arjty

This is my favorite app. I most recently used it to find a Forest fire that had gotten within 3.1 miles of us. I took photographs at various places in the burnt area and then plotted the location on a Quadrangle map.

But my main use is to record the location of petroglyphs in remote ( and not so remote sites) in the far west of the U.S. And Canada. Of course in some places satellite connection cannot be made but most of the time it can be. Not only do I get the time and the longitude and latitude and elevation, but also the azimuth. This latter is important because by adding 180 degrees to the reading I can tell what direction the petroglyph is facing. By placing a measuring graphic near the subject the theodolite photo also displays the size of the petroglyph. The theodolite record is redundant because I usually take more photographs with
a camera, which includes the time and sometimes the coordinates, but never the azimuth or elevation. This along with iPhone Notebook allows me to travel lighter and scramble in the rocks more safely.