This covers high accuracy mode only. If your job calls for Standard, see Measure a midspan (Standard). If it names another method, ask your supervisor before you start.

Use this module when your job asks for a clearance reading at the middle of a span, such as a road, driveway, or another line crossing overhead, rather than at a pole itself. What you see is built from your company's configuration, so names may differ.

This article measures a midspan point that already exists on the map. To add one in the first place, see Connecting two poles into a span.

Position the stick so its base sits directly under whatever you are measuring, not under a pole. If a line is hanging overhead, the bottom of the stick becomes your drop point. See Set up your accuracy stick if you have not checked it recently.

The stick does not need to be level. You can move its legs out to any angle and still get an accurate reading. The app accounts for the stick's own tilt when it works out the measurement.

Tap the midspan point on the map and confirm you are in high accuracy mode. From here the flow works a lot like measuring a pole: capture the tilt of the stick twice, making sure the phone's camera bump clears the top, then rest a flat surface against the target the same way you would for a pole.

Walk back far enough that you can see the lines you want to measure inside the camera frame, then take the photo. The app finds the targets on its own and works out the height of each line running through the frame, measured straight up from the drop point at the base of the stick.

Return to the field runbook. See Connecting two poles into a span for adding the midspan marker itself, and Measure a pole for the equivalent pole workflow.

For Standard mode on a busy road, see Measure a midspan (Standard).