California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,615
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
It seems like there are aps for everything.
It would be nice to optimize my route for watering 125 new trees in random locations among the thousand+ in the orchard. Presently, looking down or across the rows doesn't work that well because mature trees block view of the occasional new ones.
GPS- based mapping and real time route directions would help optimize my route and most important, assure that I didn't miss watering a new tree.
Are there libraries of Android GPS applications for farming? Is anyone using this? Is the GPS precision sufficient to take me to the general area of a previously-defined tree? The orchard grid is 20 ft x 20 ft and the new trees are usually visible among the mature ones when I get within 50~100 ft so I don't need surveyor-level precision - just an advisory to 'look over there', and a map showing all new trees/trees visited.
Thanks in advance for any comments!
It would be nice to optimize my route for watering 125 new trees in random locations among the thousand+ in the orchard. Presently, looking down or across the rows doesn't work that well because mature trees block view of the occasional new ones.
GPS- based mapping and real time route directions would help optimize my route and most important, assure that I didn't miss watering a new tree.
Are there libraries of Android GPS applications for farming? Is anyone using this? Is the GPS precision sufficient to take me to the general area of a previously-defined tree? The orchard grid is 20 ft x 20 ft and the new trees are usually visible among the mature ones when I get within 50~100 ft so I don't need surveyor-level precision - just an advisory to 'look over there', and a map showing all new trees/trees visited.
Thanks in advance for any comments!