Nav Camera uses the proven navigation, augmented reality, and image processing engines from the well known Theodolite app to create a new app that focuses on photogaphy and video recording with data overlays. The app has been crafted with attention to detail by a top iOS developer, and benefits from over 20 years of development and testing heritage, along with real world usage by surveyors, geologists, architects, engineers, competitive sportsmen, first responders, military personnel, and search and rescue workers around the world. Nav Camera supports portrait and landscape photo capture, and gives you the option to overlay date/time, geo data, street address, and four lines of custom notes on photos and videos.
Nav Camera lets you take photographs and record movies in landscape and portrait orientations with geo-location overlays and custom notes. Geo-location overlays include date, time, position, altitude, GPS datum, and compass bearing. Overlay data is updated in every frame when recording movies, which is great for documenting dynamic scenes or scanning an area. You can enter up to four lines of custom notes to be rendered into the overlay, which is perfect for job descriptions, project names, company/staff information, invoice numbers, or additional comments/documentation. Various parts of the overlay can be turned on or off, and multiple overlay colors are available.
Nav Camera includes features for serious users including multiple reticles (three types of crosshairs and an SLR-style focus/exposure indicator), colored lens filters to improve use in dark conditions and preserve night vision, and multiple position formats including military grid reference system (MGRS), universal transverse Mercator (UTM), British/Irish National Grids, and six latitude/longitude variations. The optional "Datum Pack" adds over 220 geodetic datums to the app for more accurate position and altitude computation from GPS data. Optional datums include NAD-27, NAD-83, OSGB-36, ED-50, and hundreds of others, covering regions and countries on all continents around the world.
Find out why apps like Nav Camera and Theodolite, and their field-proven results, are featured in Apple Keynotes, written up in magazine articles and professional journals, and used by everyday explorers and pro users around the world. Where will you take Nav Camera on your next adventure?
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This is Almost ideal for sending reports to the National Weather Service, but I haven’t figured out how to minimize the landscape screen to just have the scrolling compass on the bottom in landscape ( don’t need bearing or MILS) as your vertical view is reduced. And on the top reduce that to one line, don’t need elevation for weather spotting but date, time and latitude longitude only to 4 decimal degrees would be perfect weather spotting to fit it at very top line.
Seriously flawed... major drawbacks left out of description
ShoobyTaylor
The description doesn't mention that for every 1 second of video you record, it will require an extra 2-10 seconds (depending on quality & phone model) of "processing" before it saves the video. My experience is, it's always in the longer end of that range. While it's "processing" you can't start recording another video, or use your phone for anything else, it simply becomes a brick for up to 10 times the length of the recorded video. The "processing" is CPU-intensive, and it ran down my battery several times without finishing. But the app hides your battery level indicator, and if you click out of the app for a second to check your battery level... it gives you an error and the "processing" starts again from the beginning. If the "processing" gets interrupted, next time you open the app, it offers to pick up where it left off, but if it gets interrupted a second time, which is frequent because it takes so darn long to "process" even very short videos, that's it, you've lost your video and wasted a bunch of time. You can lower the video quality to shorten the "processing" time, but this makes the timestamp blurrier, and at the lowest quality level, the timestamp is totally unreadable, making the app completely pointless. You can read all of this in the documentation on the developer's website. It's just not here, in the app store description, where you might see it before you spend your money. Lowered to 1 star just for this.Not being able to use my phone for anything for up to 5 minutes after shooting a 30-second video and sometimes even then ultimately losing the video completely, I finally deleted the app. Total waste of $2.99, I deserve a refund.
Inoperable
my cat leo
After an “update” Nav Camera no longer works with my iPhone 7. It’s unresponsive to touch screen controls and the screen is over sized, won’t switch between landscape and portrait. Update: I received a reply from the developer and in their reply they neither stated what version of this app is compatible with my iPhone 7 nor did they state what version of iOS. Their assumption that I’m running outdated software is laughable, yes I’m running the latest version of iOS ,13.3.1, Apple insures that ! I also ran this app on my iPad(5th gen) with the latest iOS and the results are the same. I will not change my rating due to the developer suggesting that user is the problem! Fix your app!
Developer Response
The app has always been compatible with iPhone 7 -- hardware is not the issue. However, iOS updates have created the screen behavior you describe, which is a strong suggestion you are running a much older version of the app that pre-dates fixes for these problems. Please update to the latest version of the app. Nav Camera 1.2.1 works without issues on iOS 13 and iPhone 7. I didn't mean to imply the user is the problem, however there are thousands of other users running the app (including on iPhone 7) without issues, and statistically that says a lot when combined with your description of an old issue that was addressed in a prior app update. If you need further assistance, please contact us via our support link instead of trying to have a support conversation in the review screen.
Great app, wish there were a few more options
Eel River Kid
Easy to use to make a location-stamped photo. It would be nice to have an option to put GPS accuracy in the stamp and somewhere in the metadata, maybe in the comments field. The ability to omit the mils value from the bearing would make the stamp a bit clearer.
New option to automatically lookup and overlay street address on photos and videos.
Version 1.3
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