What CruiseNav is built for
CruiseNav is designed to let you build a tract, cruise it in the field, correct tallies later if needed, and produce a report without bouncing between separate apps. Most work starts in Jobs, More, and the map itself.
Boundaries
Plots
Tallying
Navigation
Reports
Cloud Sync
Quick Start
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Open Jobs and create or select the tract you want to work on.
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Open More to draw boundaries, place plots, edit shapes, or open cruise setup.
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Set the cruise type, species, log rule, and form class in Cruise Setup.
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Tap a plot on the map to tally trees, mark no tally, or navigate to it.
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Use Report for stand, stock, and notice-style volume summaries, then print or export.
Jobs
Jobs are your tracts. Keep each tract in its own job so boundaries, plots, tallies, cruise settings, and reports stay together. Switching jobs swaps the whole tract in and out of the map.
Boundaries and Shapes
Use More -> Draw Boundary to sketch one or more polygons. Use Edit Shapes to reshape them later. In the cruise-grid panel you can now delete one polygon at a time if a tract has multiple boundaries and one needs to be removed completely.
Plots and Cruise Grid
Generate a grid from your selected boundaries or place individual plots manually. The Plots tab helps move through pending points, while List gives a faster plot-by-plot view when you need to jump around or review status.
Cruise Setup
Choose the cruise method that matches the tract: fixed-area, BAF, or 100% tally. This panel also controls species, log rule, and Girard form class, which feed directly into tally logic and the final report.
Tallying Trees
Tap a plot to open the tally screen. Pick species, product, DBH class, and log count, then add the tree. If a plot has no tally trees, mark it No Tally so the plot still counts as completed. You can reopen completed plots later to delete or correct trees.
GPS and Navigation
Use the GPS tab to follow your location and navigate to the active plot. Phone Compass uses the device heading. Walking Direction waits until you start moving, then points using your travel direction, which works better on Android devices with poor compasses.
Reports
The Report panel now builds a notice-style timber report with tract summary tables, grouped volume summaries, and log-distribution tables by product and DBH. Make sure tract acres, cruise method, log rule, and form class are correct before printing.
Cloud Sync and Sharing
Use Cloud Sync & Sharing to back up jobs, share a cruise, or pull field edits back into the office. Sync after important edits, especially if you corrected trees or changed job settings after the field day.
Editing and Fixing Mistakes
You can edit polygons, delete individual boundaries, reopen plots, remove trees, and retally corrected trees. Completed plot edits now count as real changes during sync so corrected office edits do not get overwritten by older cloud data.
Extra Tools
The app also includes shapefile import/export, GeoJSON export, GeoPDF export for Avenza, optional parcel lookup layers, theme colors, and cloud sharing tools from the More panel.
Field tip: the fastest normal workflow is Jobs -> More -> Draw Boundary / Cruise Setup -> Grid / Place Plot -> GPS -> Tally -> Report. If you ever forget where something lives, open More -> Help Guide and this walkthrough will come back.