Android Features

CAPTURE PHOTO EVIDENCE

Select the information to overlay on your photos for proof of work:

• GPS Location (Latitude & Longitude in various formats) ± Accuracy
• Compass direction – bearing (True/Magnetic North)
• Altitude – MLS/HAE (Metric & Imperial units)
• Tilt & Roll Angles
• Centre crosshair
• Local date & time
• Local time zone
• UTC time
• Cardinal & Intercardinal directions
• Building facade direction, e.g. “North elevation”
• Option to use abbreviations or Unicode characters for direction, position and altitude

EDITABLE NOTES OVERLAY
Stamp your photos with a Project Name, Description, and Watermark. Use the Project Name for job or ticket numbers; this field also organises your cloud-saved photos into folders. The Description field allows for specific details, while the Watermark is ideal for company or user branding. All fields can be edited later if details change.

WATERMARK LOGO
Protect your work and reinforce your brand identity by adding your company logo to your photo overlays. Enjoy flexible placement options, either integrated with the notes or as a subtle background at the size you want. Tailor the logo position specifically for landscape and portrait views. 

STREET ADDRESS
Selecting street mode overlays photos with the street address. You can select the distance interval at which to check and update the street address while on the go.

UTM & MGRS Coordinate Formats

COMPACT VIEW
Switch off Compass, Cardinal, Building and Street modes and only show the GPS info bar for a more compact view.

DUAL PHOTO CAPTURE
Capture two photos simultaneously: one with a stamped GPS overlay and a second full-resolution original. By default, both are saved to your device’s camera roll, and the stamped version is also stored in the Solocator library for further editing or export. You can toggle autosave on or off for either version in your settings.

PHOTO SIZES
The photo sizes Solocator Android camera calls up are based on your Android device. Typically photo aspect sizes are 4:3, 16:9 and 2:1. See photo examples

SELFIE CAMERA
Solocator allows the same overlays to be applied when taking selfies.

CAMERA TIMER
The timer offers 3 time options: 5, 10, or 15 seconds, so you can be in the photo as well.

TILT, ROLL & CROSSHAIR
These can be turned on as a camera overlay and also stamped onto photos.

LANDSCAPE LOCK
Ideal for taking many photos looking down at the ground.

CAMERA ZOOM
Pinch zoom to reveal three preset zoom buttons: 0.5x | 1.0x | 2.0x. Remembers your zoom level if switched on in settings.

Other General Camera functions include auto, manual and lock Focus/Exposure plus Flash (auto | on | off) and Torch.

LOCK GPS POSITION

• When taking photos under cover or up against large buildings, you may wish to refine and lock your position to identify your position better, especially if there are structures to compare to.
• This feature may also be helpful for you if you want to nominate the position of the asset, building etc., you’re taking a photo or instead of where you’re standing.

GPS info bar in the camera overlay turns green, indicating the change from live GPS roaming (white background), and an alert pops up after the shutter button is used to remind you that your position is fixed.

AUTOSAVE PHOTOS TO DEVICE CAMERA ROLL
Take and autosave two photos at once to the device camera roll.

Options include:

• Stamped photo with overlays.
• Original high res photo with no stamped overlays.
• Save photos to a Solocator album in your camera roll.
• Add a suffix to the Solocator album: “Date” or “Project Name”.

Internal Storage Folder: You can also autosave photos to your selected internal storage folder on Android devices (v2.80+).

AUTOSAVE PHOTOS TO CLOUD STORAGE
Autosave original and stamped photos to:

• Google Drive
• Dropbox
• OneDrive – Personal
• OneDrive – For Business (includes followed SharePoint Sites and Microsoft Teams)

Photos can also be saved automatically under date or project name subfolders and autosaving in shared folders.

WORKING WITH SOLOCATOR PHOTO LIBRARY

• Photos are sorted by time, location, distance from current location and by project name (if Industry Pack purchased)
• View photo direction and location in map view and navigate back there via Google maps.

BATCH EDIT NOTES, GEOSPATIAL SELECTIONS & OVERLAY FIELDS
Select multiple photos from the library and edit Project Name, Description & Watermark fields in one go or switch between different geospatial selections, such as a different coordinate format.

TRACK PHOTOS IN MAP VIEW
View multiple photos by direction, distance between photos, area of photos and distance to your added markers via imported KML files or dropped pins. Import user markers.

SEARCH FOR PHOTOS
Search for photos by date, date range, project name, description, and watermark fields.

EMAILING PHOTOS & LOCATION DATA

• Exif metadata saved to photos
• Photos can be emailed individually or in a zip file
• Formatted Email Body includes the following photo info:
  • Compass direction
  • GPS position ± accuracy
  • Altitude
  • Date & time taken
  • Street address (Industry Pack)
  • Elevation of building face viewed (if selected)
  • Links to Google maps so the receiver can navigate to the photo location
  • Share photos via the share sheet to other apps

CUSTOM EXPORTING & EMAILING
Export or email multiple photos and photo info in KML, KMZ or CSV formats. Attach maps of photo locations along with your photos when exporting or emailing.
Select your combination of photos, maps and captured info in the file formats to suit your needs — export/email photos individually or as a zip file.

Customise KML/KMZ marker name and photo size for KMZ files.

CUSTOM EXPORT FILENAME
Define your photo export filename by selecting from the following fields and what order to be used; Project Name, Description, Watermark, Street Address, Date/Time and a Custom field.

Export/share photos with map links via the share sheet.