Where: web portal, a pole's measured photo, opened from the map.
When you finish: you can open a measured photo, read what the side panel tells you, correct a measurement, add attachments, and save without losing work.
This is where you check, correct and sign off a measured photo. Two habits prevent most problems: open it by clicking through from the map, and save before you leave.
Open the measured photo
Open the job on the map and click the pole. If another object sits on the same spot, the map asks which one you mean; choose the pole.
On the Data tab, next to Measurement data, choose Measure Utility Pole (Measure Midspan on a midspan). The measured photo opens.
You can also arrive from a day replay; see Replay a fielder's day.
Click through; do not type or edit the link. A hand-edited link to this screen loads forever with no error, because the map and this screen name things differently in their addresses. Go back to the map and click through.
Find your way around
The numbers match the picture.
Photo toolbar: Add attachments, Hide pole line, zoom, Fit and a download button.
Adjust photo changes brightness and contrast without touching the original.
Other photos of the same pole, in the strip underneath.
The side panel tabs: Measure, Data and History (see the table below).
On Measure, height, lean and attachment count come first.
Fix measurement holds the repair tools; see Correct the measurement.
Download gives an Inspection report (PDF) or Photos and data (ZIP) for this one object. Whole jobs export elsewhere; see Export your data.
Ground line circumference: Measure measures the pole's girth on the photo; see Correct the measurement.
What each tab holds:
Tab | What is on it |
Measure | Height, lean and attachment count; the Attachments list; the Measurement group (Fix measurement, ground line circumference, placement, captured tilt and location, weather); Spans and guys |
Data | The pole's fields, the same ones you edit on the map |
History | Changes to height, attachments and photos, plus a Files list showing each photo's upload status. Field changes are on each field in the Data tab |
What the title tells you
Title | You opened | Differences |
Pole inspection | A pole | Attachments list; circumference, pole top and bottom, estimated class tools |
Midspan inspection | A midspan | Wires instead of attachments; no pole-only tools |
Measurement inspection | It could not tell what kind of object | Tell us rather than working around it |
Correct the measurement
Each tool is a mode. Finish or cancel one before you start another, and remember that none of them saves the page for you.
Tool | How it works | How it saves |
Measure (ground line circumference), on the Measure tab | Drag the edge markers onto the pole; the reading updates live. The button reads Done measuring while you work. | Done measuring only exits the mode. Save the page afterwards. |
Update pole top and bottom, in Fix measurement | A banner reads Editing pole top and bottom. Drag the markers on the photo. | Save line saves the new line and recalculates heights straight away; Cancel drops it. Save the page afterwards for anything else you changed. |
Adjust photo, top right | Brightness and contrast. The original is unchanged. | Saved with the page. PDF reports use the photo as captured. |
Fix measurement also holds Calibrate (or Re-calibrate) and Reprocess pole, and, under Runs a trigger, Flip upside-down calibration stick and Re-export measurement photo to Katapult when they apply to the photo. A greyed item tells you why it is unavailable.
Add attachments on the photo
Choose Add attachments on the photo toolbar. Find with AI suggests attachments for you to review; see Review attachment suggestions on a measurement photo. To place one yourself:
Choose Place manually. The first time you do this in a browser, a short explainer shows how heights are read around a round pole; choose Got it to continue.
Click the photo where the attachment sits.
Choose Finish placing, the same button, which changes its label while you are placing.
Save the page.
The Attachments list on the Measure tab shows each one and its height, using your configuration's names. Click an attachment to open Editing attachment: its height, Attachment type, Construction status, Owner and Classification, and a button to delete it. Done closes the panel; save the page to keep your changes.
Editing attachment, opened from the photo. Done (ringed) closes it.
Save your work
When anything is unsaved, a bar at the bottom of the side panel reads Unsaved changes. Finish or cancel any mode you are in, then choose Save changes.
Leaving through the sidebar does not warn you. The Map back button, your browser's Back button, and closing or reloading the tab all ask before discarding unsaved changes. Clicking somewhere else in the sidebar does not, so save first.
Spans and guys
On the Measure tab, scroll to Spans and guys. The pole is at the centre; spans are dark lines, guys are yellow with a gray anchor.
Click one span or guy to select it, a second to see the angle between them. To hide a set, click Shown next to Spans or Guys; it then reads Hidden.
If it says No spans or guys connect to this object, there is nothing to show.
About these angles (the info icon beside the legend): Angles are magnetic readings from the iPhone or iPad's compass and may have some error.
Treat those angles as a review aid, not a survey-grade bearing.
Why a button is grey or missing
Button | Why | Fix |
Any mode button | You are already in another mode; they are mutually exclusive | Finish or cancel the mode you are in |
Calibrate or Re-calibrate, with a reason about AR captures or high-accuracy metadata | The photo cannot be re-solved on the web: an AR capture, or no high-accuracy metadata | A fresh capture in the field; see Re-measure a pole from the web |
An item in Fix measurement, with a reason such as Finish the current edit first | You are in another mode, or have unsaved edits | Finish or cancel the mode, or save |
Add attachments, gone from the toolbar | Hidden while you measure | Finish or cancel the mode and it returns |
Two notes the screen may show
Note | Meaning | Do this |
Could not line up the detected pole; using standard placement | Cloneable will not curve heights around a pole surface it does not trust. Detection latched onto a background trunk, the line was drawn beside the pole, or nothing usable was found | Try Reprocess pole once. If the photo is too poor, recapture |
Estimated class | Calculated from measured circumference and height against the industry standard. A sanity check, not a certification | If it disagrees with what you expect, check circumference and height before checking the pole |
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