| PackageDescription | Total Open Station is a program for downloading and processing survey data from total station devices.
Total Open Station is a good choice if:
- you work with total stations on GNU/Linux (and MacOS, probably)
- you work with old devices that are unsupported by vendors
- you need to process hundreds of data files at once
We think Total Open Station is small but great because:
- it is *free/libre open source software*
- it works on *any* operating system where Python is available
- it is designed to support as many devices and formats as possible, all
within the same program, opposed to having one program per device
- it works both on the command line and with a graphical interface
Total Open Station uses a modular structure and
keeps the downloading of data logically separated from its processing,
thus enabling exporting data to a variety of output formats, even at a
later moment. Archiving of raw data is made easy by using plain text
files. |