Touchdraw

Sometimes you need more serious drawing tools than can be accessed within Kiosk itself. We recommend the vector drawing app Touchdraw2, which we use for section drawing, for taking SVGs from the GIS and drawing plans on top of them, and for some annotation of photographs (the simple stuff can be done with the iPad’s own image editing tools).

archaeological drawing of a section to illustrate what the vector drawing software can do

An image made in TouchDraw can be exported on the iPad and then brought into an image container in the Filemaker recording, such as the example below.

screenshot of recording showing a drawn plan and a narrative text side by side.
The Progetto Archaeologico S’Urachi uses measured dayplan drawings beside their narrative journaling. Here you see a plan that is regularly updated linked, in its current state, to a journal entry discussing progress in the pictured stratigraphic units.