About this app

Datamine Discover Mobile

Discover Mobile is a touch friendly mobile mapping and data collection app with an intuitive and user friendly interface.
Enabling efficient field data capture and seamless integration with the Datamine Discover Desktop software.
Discover Mobile is designed for any professional wishing to navigate and collect data on an Android based mobile device.

Hardware Requirements
- Discover Mobile has been optimized for most Android mobile devices from a phone to tablet with an inbuilt GPS receiver
- Discover will work on most mobile devices installed with Android OS versions 7 (Nougat), 8 (Oreo), 9 (Pie), 10 (Android 10), 11 (Android 11), 12 (Android 12), 13 (Android 13)
- Digital Compass, Three Axis Gyro and Accelerometer for the Structural Compass
- No inbuilt GPS receiver in your mobile device? Simply connect your Bluetooth GPS receiver such as a Garmin GLO or Bad Elf Pro to your mobile device

So what features does Discover Mobile offer?
- Seamless integration with Datamine Discover desktop software, display all your Vector, Image and Grid datasets on your mobile device
- Navigate and capture data online/offline
- Touch enabled user friendly interface with standard gesture controls
- Display and zoom to your current GPS location
- Google Maps integration with offline map caching
- Support for Point, Polyline, Polygon and Image features
- Create new Point, Polyline and Polygon features from your current GPS location, a user-defined location or with finger gestures or a stylus
- Modify your Point, Polyline and Polygon objects with alternative styles
- Modify Point, Polyline and Polygon features by either moving, adding or deleting objects or nodes
- Apply Thematic styles to Point, Polyline and Polygon features
- View attribute information for all your vector data
- Edit existing Vector attribute information
- Validated data entry with dropdown lists, automatic value entry and value capping
- Capture and associate photos with a vector feature
- Measure distances and bearings with an on screen Ruler tool or Scalebar
- Navigate to a location with the Waypoint navigation tool
- Capture and associate audio clips with a vector feature
- Geofence regions and receive alerts when entering or existing
- Locate vector objects from the associated attribute information
- Capture structure symbols with a structural compass and clinometer tool
- Display points as structure symbols
- Locate and capture GPS data with a high precision external Bluetooth GPS receiver
- Capture and modify non spatial datasets with validation
- Capture a track layer while collecting and modify data
- Navigate around with the inbuilt magnetic compass tool
- Display coordinates in a projection of your choice
- Average your GPS point location capture
- Display attribute information through text labels
- Display object information such as line length and polygon areas
- Capture geolocated rock outcrops and digitise interpretations with Outcrop mapper tool


NOTE**: Discover Mobile is a free app but requires Datamine Discover to Create/Manage/Import and Export Mobile Projects.

New features

Added additional EXIF information to photos
Added support for multi-part objects in Outcrop Mapper tool
Added support for Outcrop structure layers in Stereonet tool
Support persistent project layer styles on mobile when checking in and out a project
Improved method to detect structure layers in Stereonet tool
Numerous enhancements and bug fixes

App Permissions

Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.