Swathwise

Size a drone LiDAR job

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Swathwise sizes a drone LiDAR or photogrammetry job from a map. Draw the flight area, or bring in a boundary file, pick the aircraft and the sensor, choose the kind of job, and Swathwise works out the area, the flight lines, the flight time and how many battery sets the day will take. Its settings for each kind of job come from published standards (USGS Lidar Base Specification, ASPRS, FEMA and others), and it shows which one it is following. What it does: - Area, flight time and battery sets for a drawn boundary - Job presets built on published standards, with the citation - Corridor routes for fiber, roads and pipelines - Draft flight routes as KMZ files for the controller, with terrain from USGS 3DEP (United States) - A printable flight plan and a field sheet - Maps from USGS, USDA NAIP and the Census Bureau; no account, no key Swathwise gives planning estimates and draft routes. It does not fly the aircraft, check the airspace, or know what stands on the ground. Check every route on the controller before it is flown. Terms of use: https://swathwise.org/terms/

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A new look, Google Earth-style maps, and directions to the field. • New menu: an icon rail down the left. Press the open section to close the panel and give the map the whole window. On a phone it becomes bottom tabs under a pull-up sheet. • Places: open KML, KMZ, GPX and GeoJSON files with their folders and colors intact. Make your own pins, paths and shapes, edit them, and save them back out. • Directions: road directions to your launch points, GNSS bases and control points, with live turn-by-turn, voice, offline routes and printable PDFs. Press Directions and the day's stops and route are already there, and any change reroutes by itself. • Walk-ins: a stop off the road ends the drive at the nearest road and adds the walk, with its distance, bearing and climb. • Private roads: mark a path in Places as a way in, and Directions follows it to a stop no map knows how to reach. • Measure: a line's length, bearing, ground profile and area, right on the map. • Search: find a place and get directions to it in one press.

The developer, River James, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

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Seller
River James
Size
6.3 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
© 2026 River James