Clone Intent and Offer to Upstream New Features

[himanshunaidu]

Greetings,
Wanted to start by saying that this is an amazing and a super-useful project, that I am using quite extensively in my own project (I have cited your project recently).
I forked this project last year, and I’ve been working with this fork for a while and extended it with several new features for my own project. Here is my own fork of the project:
https://github.com/himanshunaidu/iOSPointMapperDataCollector

The original project has been fairly quiet lately, and some of the additions I’m building may not align with your roadmap or target users.

Hence, I wanted to share my plans transparently: I’m going to create a standalone clone of this repo (still MIT-licensed and fully attributed to you) so I can continue evolving it for my own use case. I’m also happy to upstream any features or improvements that you feel would be valuable here—just let me know.

Here are some of the changes I have worked (or will be working) on, that I'd be happy to upstream to your project if you find them useful:

1. Save location details in the session
2. Add user setting to let users move the capture button and other controls to the top (based on some feedback I got from users)
3. Enable collection of polygon mesh data generated by ARKit

Thank you for this project. It has been a solid foundation for my data collection process and I really appreciate the work that went into it.

[kekeblom]

Hi @himanshunaidu and thank you so much for your work!

Indeed I haven't had that much time to work on maintaining and developing the app, but I am always happy when people reach out and tell me about their use cases. Glad to hear the app has been useful to you.

Cloning the project is no problem at all and I would encourage you to develop in any direction you see fit.

Regarding changes that would be merged to this upstream repository, I would say the decision will be made based on whether they would be useful to the general user: basically someone who just wants a quick way to record raw data from their iOS device. Collecting additional types of data are welcome additions as long as they don't come with huge downsides to the users who don't need those.

All three of the changes you listed would be very welcome additions to the project! Feel free to open a pull request and I'll try to find some time to test the changes and release a new version of the app.