SMASH Reference Manual

G-ANT - SMASH version 1.12.0, 2026-09

SMASH, the free and open source digital field mapping app for Android

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If you are looking for the source code of this project, jump right to this link.

SMASH is a digital field mapping application developed to perform fast qualitative engineering/geologic surveys and GIS data collection.

The main aim of SMASH is to have a tool that:

  • is open source

  • fits in any pocket and can be always at hand, when needed

  • gives the possibility to take geo-referenced and possibly orientated pictures during a survey, with further possibility to import them into GIS applications

  • is able to easily exploit an Internet connection, if available

  • is extremely easy to use and intuitive, providing just few important functions

SMASH on Android

SMASH on Android.

The main features available in SMASH are:

  • geo-referenced notes and pictures

  • GPS track logging, with the possibility to nest or merge several recordings together

  • form-based data surveys

  • a map view for navigation with support for raster and vector data

  • an always-available distance/area measurement tool

  • vector feature editing and querying for Geopackage layers

  • geopackage (OGC standard) support

  • easy export of collected data, and synchronization with the Geopaparazzi Survey Server

License

The SMASH source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

Community

SMASH is closely related to the older, more mature, Android-only app Geopaparazzi. For that reason they share the same channels and spaces.

Find out the latest SMASH news.

The main communication channels in the past for SMASH users and developers have been mailing lists. We now decided to move the main communication to the discussions page.

You can even contribute to this manual. This particular copy of the manual lives alongside the SMASH source code, under docs/, so that documentation changes can travel together with the feature changes that motivate them.

Help translate SMASH on Hosted Weblate.

Need help?

Drop a note on the discussions page.

Found bugs?

If you found a bug, please report it in our issue tracker. We will check it and work on it as soon as we can.

Need features?

If you would like to see new features in SMASH, you have a few ways to get there:

  • develop them yourself and contribute them to the project via pull requests

  • hire someone to do that for you - get in touch with us, custom development services is what makes it possible to keep SMASH evolving and free.

  • create a new feature request in our issue tracker and wait for someone interested to pick it up.

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