The app allows you to survey the following elements:

Poles, Anchors, Spans, UG routes, Service Drops, Addresses & Survey Notes. It also collects minimal data (position and photos) on Adjacent poles or system objects

App Export:

• .kmz file: A 3D Google Overlay containing a full survey photo set and pole attribute rake off. The only element not include is pole attachment data.

• .csv file: A Comma Separated Value data base file is included. Even in development, some clients receiving ‘ambrePole’ products have written scripts to transpose pole data to downstream engineering process software. This can evolve into a severely valuable product! Let us know if you want to work together on this endeavour too.

• .ap data file: This file is for project backup, re-import or intracompany exchange purposes. It is a light weight project file that can be emailed about and imported into any system loaded with the ‘ambrePole’ app. The only thing it would not include is the surveyed ‘photo set.’

• Photo Set: A sub folder is created containing all the projects’ camera shots - named with a convenient sorting nomenclature (eg: ‘Pole 1 - Anchor Detail-A’). These photos can be exported at a choice of 3 resolutions so that file delivery and storage can be considered. Additionally, photos with with tags indicating pole ID shots, are defaulted to save down to low resolutions, while profile and close up are not.

Send for further Processing

Set up with a ‘Corporate ID’ account, the user can send exported data files (at the push of a button) to AmbreComm for additional processing. This processing returns the following products (see pricing for cost details):

• Pole Profiles

  • a pdf file containing a two page profile on each pole

  • a CAD dwg with the same tabbed profiles and 3D network to scale and in precise position as per the CRS (Coordinate Reference System) chosen on export

• CAD Topo dwg (Topographical Overlay) that includes all of the surveyed elements and their separated angles. Elements have limited attribute display.

• In the ‘Topo’ drawing, you also get fully populated 2D pole profiles in block form, that you can reposition as desired in your permit drawings. These profiles alone save more money in drafting costs than the cost of processing our entire product suite!

…one thing to note: some of quality or attribute inclusivity of the output depends on how thorough the surveyor is. For example; if the surveyor neglects to populate the span crossing type (eg: RR Tracks or Street Crossing), the 2D drafted profiles won’t identify the crossing type either. Or if the surveyor does not verify the street alignment while populating the values of a pole (street position is retrieved from AppleMaps data servers - but are sometimes slightly off), then their job will be harder (as element placement is made much easier if this is performed) and the profile viewing angles will be distorted.