BGS SIGMA 2015 : external user guide for BGS SIGMA mobile and desktop toolbars

摘要

The British Geological Survey began developing digital field mapping systems inud1989. However, it was apparent that the commercially available hardware was notudsuitable at that time. In 2001, we revisited the topic under the System for IntegratedudGeoscience Mapping (SIGMA) programme. By 2003, BGS had developed a PDAud(personal digital assistant) field system, which was superseded in 2005, when weudbegan deploying a beta system on rugged Tablet PCs. The Tablet PC system, whichudwe called BGS•SIGMAmobile was used by BGS in mapping projects across the UKudas well as overseas. It first became available in Open Source form, in June 2009 viaudthe BGS website, www.bgs.ac.uk, under an agreement which stipulates that updatesudand modifications must be supplied to BGS in order to stimulate furtheruddevelopments. In 2011/2012, BGS•SIGMAmobile was rewritten in .NET andudcombined with our office based mapping software BGS•SIGMAdesktop withinudArcGIS 10.x to create BGS•SIGMA 2012. BGS•SIGMA has been updated again toudtake all of the forms out of Access and are now accessed directly from ArcMap in theudlatest BGS•SIGMA 2015.udIt is envisaged that future releases will be made available from the BGS websiteudincorporating new modules, modifications and upgrades supplied by BGS andudexternal users of the system.udThis document has been written to guide users through the installation and use ofudBGS•SIGMA 2015 (mobile and desktop), which is the fourth free release.udWe are happy to receive feedback and modifications emailed to sigma@bgs.ac.uk.