Every point, defensible.
FieldPoint captures the location, device readings, and your own custom fields for every sample, with the provenance a thesis committee or a reviewer will ask about built in from the first tap, not reconstructed afterward.
Loose spreadsheets do not survive peer review.
Data collected by hand in a notebook, a generic map pin app, or a spreadsheet passed between phones tends to lose exactly the details a committee or reviewer asks for first: who collected it, on what device, how accurate the GPS fix was, and whether a field was added halfway through the season. FieldPoint treats that context as a native part of every record, not an appendix you have to reconstruct from memory months later.
Built around how field research actually gets defended.
Schema per project, versioned
Every project defines its own fields before collection starts. Add or remove a field mid-project and FieldPoint snapshots a new schema version instead of silently rewriting history.
Auto-captured device data
Coordinates, altitude, GPS accuracy, heading, barometric pressure, sun phase, and both UTC and local timestamps are recorded automatically on every point.
Your own custom fields
Add number, text, boolean, date, dropdown, or photo fields specific to your discipline, whatever the sample calls for beyond what the device already records.
Offline-first collection
Points and photos are written to the device the moment they're captured. Fieldwork happens where signal doesn't, and nothing here depends on a connection.
Collision-safe by design
Every record gets a globally unique ID, so a second collector or a second device can join a project later with no migration and no clashing sample numbers.
Publication-ready export
Export GeoJSON with 3D coordinates and flattened CSV for QGIS or ArcGIS, along with a generated data dictionary you can drop into a methods section.
Weather data, batched and fully disclosed.
Weather is gathered in a single sweep at the end of a session rather than one call per point in the field, so a dead zone never costs you a sample. Nearby points collected within the same hour share one reading instead of each making an independent call, and FieldPoint records exactly which points were queried directly and which inherited a reading from a neighbor.
Queried for this point
The sweep called OpenWeather using this point's own coordinates and time. Its full raw response is stored for audit.
Inherited from a neighbor
This point sits within about 0.1 degrees and the same hour as another point in the sweep, and shares its reading. The source point is recorded, so the value can always be traced.
Built for the people who have to defend their data.
Graduate researchers
Collecting samples for a thesis or dissertation and need every record to hold up when a committee member asks how a value was obtained.
Principal investigators
Running a lab where more than one collector may work the same project across seasons, without worrying about clashing sample IDs or silently changed fields.
Field methods instructors
Teaching research methods and want students to leave with a dataset they could genuinely submit, not a folder of screenshots and half-remembered notes.
Your projects, viewable from a browser.
Once a project is synced, FieldPoint Web renders it on a map so you, a collaborator, or a supervisor can look through it without installing anything. Free accounts can view and click through points. Filtering, symbolizing by attribute, correcting a mistyped value, and exporting from the browser are part of the paid tier.
| Capability | Free | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| View synced projects on the map | Yes | Yes |
| Click a point to see its attributes | Yes | Yes |
| Filter and symbolize by attribute | Not included | Yes |
| Correct an attribute value | Not included | Yes |
| Export filtered data from the browser | Not included | Yes |
Point locations are never editable from the browser, on either tier. A miskeyed coordinate is a data integrity issue to flag, not something to quietly drag on a map.
This is a preview of the FieldPoint Web sign in. A free account is enough to view any project you've synced, no card required.