Where: UtilityScout, on the phone, the map.
When you finish: you can place a pole at the crosshair or at your position, chain several with Continue Adding, connect two poles into a span, and draw a bent line.
Placing records where an object is. It does not measure it, and it does not fill in its details. The counters keep reading zero measured until measurement happens, which is correct. The button uses your organization's words: if your company calls them structures, it says structures.
Place a pole
Choose the add action on the sheet at the bottom. If your organization has more than one kind of pole, use the small chevron beside it to pick which.
A crosshair appears in the middle of the map. Move the map so the crosshair sits where the pole is, or choose to place it at your own position if your phone has a location fix.
Confirm. The pole appears straight away; judge it by whether it appeared, not by its colour, which is your organization's icon rule.
Placing at | Right when |
The crosshair | You can see the pole and want it exactly there |
Your position | You are standing at the pole. Not offered without a current location fix |
Some add buttons have a small caret underneath. Long-press one for secondary point types your organization set up, such as No-Access markers, Map Notes or locked gates.
Place several in a row
After you confirm a pole, turn on Continue Adding. It turns green. Each new pole stays in this mode, and the span connecting it to the last one is drawn automatically.
Auto Midspan appears while Continue Adding is on. It is on by default (orange) and drops a midpoint marker on every chained span. Turn it off before you start if none need one, or unhighlight a single span afterwards.
Slide the row right and tap Done (blue) when you finish. With Continue Adding off, the last control reads Cancel.
Connect two poles into a span
Start a connection. A line follows between the poles as you draw.
Choose the span type if your organization has more than one.
Add a midspan if you need to record something at the middle.
Confirm the connection. It is not saved until you do. Do not judge that from how the line looks; a dashed line may be a perfectly normal finished span in your organization's styling.
If drawing a line says no line template is set up, that is a setup gap: "No line template configured" when I draw a line.
Draw a line with several bends
A separate mode for multi-point lines. It counts your points as you go and has an undo for the last one. Each point goes at the crosshair or at your own position. See Connect objects and draw sketch lines.
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