Fieldmove note summary code

This repository contains a Python 3 script fieldmove_notes_merger.py that merges and sorts the image, plane, note, and line .csv files created by the iOS app Fieldmove Clino, discards unnecessary fields, then outputs the result to a presentable LaTeX document that includes thumbnails of the photos.

Requirements:

• Python 3 and standard scientific Python modules

Execution:

• on a Mac open Terminal; on a PC you can get a command line interface using the Anaconda Powershell prompt which can be opened through the Anaconda Navigator
• navigate to the directory in which fieldmove_notes_merger.py is saved
  • to do this type cd [pathname] in the Terminal prompt where [pathname] is the path to the folder
• execute 'python fieldmove_notes_merger.py' in the Terminal prompt
• follow the prompts which will have you enter the following in interactive prompts:
  • the path to the project.fm directory where the .csv and image files are stored
  • the year and field area
  • the name of the folder within the project directory where the images are kept. In order to keep the pdf document generated by LaTeX to a reasonable size, we recommend exporting downsized versions of your imagery into a separate images folder (such as image_thumbnails) keeping the same names for the images. Doing so is not required.

Outputs:

• all_notes.csv
• all_notes_filtered.csv
• latexoutput.tex

All output files will be created in the same directory in which the Fieldmove .csv’s are stored.