One page. The full checklist stays on screen.
Property
Date
Battery start
Battery end
The tape test tape first, then the app
- Take the photo with something you know the length of in the shot.
- Mark both ends of that known thing, and tell the app what it is.
- Read "the whole photo is X across". Believable? If not, the reference is wrong.
Fix it before you measure.
- Measure with the tape. Write it down. Then read the app.
| Case |
Frame reads |
OK? |
Tape |
App |
Diff |
| 1 Flat, facing you — fence, gate, doorTape in the shot. If this is off, nothing else works. |
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| 2 Angled away — a path, a bed edgeHow fast it goes wrong off-square. |
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| 3 Further off than the referenceShould be wrong. Did confidence drop? |
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| 4 Break it — mark a brick, call it 6 ftLine should look ridiculous. Would you have spotted it? |
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Measuring on the map never run on hardware
For things too far apart to fit in one photo. It uses GPS, not the photo.
Pace or tape the same gap and compare — nobody has ever checked this.
| What |
Tape / paced |
App |
± shown |
Diff |
| Pin to pin, both snapped |
| | | |
| Pin to a free point |
| | | |
| Two free points |
| | | |
| Tapped the track between two pins |
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Readings write them down, they get forgotten
GPS open: __________ m
Under canopy: __________ m
Time on site: __________
Sun readable? __________
Gloves? __________
Magnifier usable? __________
Anything that would have cost you the visit