Field tools that work in the backcountry.
Set them up once — they keep working where the service doesn't.
Made the wrong swipe, accepted arrival, or closed the app — and lost the cached view of your surroundings, with no offline copy? Stared at a location dot in an empty polygon or a blank “map” and tried to remember where you last had service?
is somewhere?
These tools work offline. Map, position, records — loaded before you leave.
↓ THE SAME MOMENT, OUR WAY ↓
TelCam photo telemetry & GPS waypoints
For those plodding through a wetland documenting conditions, wrapping up a job site with records of references and monumentation, collecting samples, or measuring track and sign: if the work means taking photos and making waypoints, TelCam is one app for both.
CUSTOM WORK: BOUNDARIES & EMBLEMS
Have your organization’s boundary or logo watermarked directly onto your photos.
- Boundary overlay from your own GIS files (GeoJSON, GPX, or Shapefile): $100–$150
- Boundary overlay with data sourced on your behalf: $250–$400
- Custom emblem from your logo or mark: $75–$125 (two rounds of revision included)
Contact info@ulgeospatial.com to start.
MORE ABOUT TELCAM
TelCam is built for field documentation: for watershed councils, survey crews, and agency field staff who need photos with context they can trust. Each photo is watermarked at capture with the telemetry your device provides (GPS position, compass heading, roll and pitch), and the position and heading are also recorded in EXIF. If your device has no GPS fix, the photo says so (“NO FIX”) rather than carrying an invented position. Absence is honest; a fake point is not.
TelCam can also show your position inside custom map overlays you load (an administrative boundary, a job site), giving each capture quick spatial context alongside the telemetry. Your captures not only tell where you stood; they can show it too.
Switch on GPX in Advanced Settings and TelCam also saves a GPS waypoint for each photo taken with a fix, as a small .gpx file. The waypoint carries the coordinates, fix time, accuracy, your description, and the photo’s filename, so each point can be matched to its picture in your mapping or GIS software. GPX is off by default.
For grant photo-point monitoring, every photo carries its date and time, and your description (project, point ID) stays set between sessions. Headings are marked magnetic or true north, corrected on the phone with no network. Advanced Settings adds an optional 8 MB photo-size cap for grant-portal uploads. Photo text stays readable in bright sun, and there are six color themes, including hi-vis yellow and survey pink.
TelCam requires no internet or data permissions structurally. The app cannot transmit anything off your phone: no accounts, no cloud services, no analytics, no ads, no AI photo editing. Your photographs and data stay on your device by design, and sharing them is entirely your action.
In the event your social media person wants shareables from the field, the + No Mark option saves an additional copy when you take a picture, without the watermark and without location EXIF. Ordinary camera details (device model, exposure) remain in EXIF. + No Mark is off by default; the button is inside settings when you need it.
Full terms: TelCam End User License Agreement.
R What? canyon profiles
Study the canyon's shape before you enter. Get a sense of where you are while out of service.
- IN THE FIELD
- Set up at home, run with zero service — nothing streams, nothing syncs. TelCam goes further: it holds no internet permission and contacts nothing at all.
- YOUR RECORDS
- Stored on your device — we run no servers. No lock-in: export works in every version.
- FORMATS
- GPX + GeoJSON in and out; PNEZD (CSV) points — formats that open directly in GIS and engineering software.
- PRIVACY
- No ads, no trackers, no accounts. What any fetch sends is stated plainly in the FULL POLICY.
- FIELD UX
- Big buttons, high contrast — sun, rain, dark, gloves.
Working, living, and playing off the grid taught me which tools earn their weight, and what just gets in the way. These apps are built from those lessons — more about that here.
EMAIL Info AT ULGEOSPATIAL