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PointScout Is on the App Store
PointScout Mobile is now on the Apple App Store -- which means it is now on every phone your crew already carries, not just the Android ones. Free forever, unlimited seats, and deliberately independent of your data collector. Here is what changes for a mixed-fleet crew, and why the price is the point.
Send a Helper, Not a Surveyor
The scarcest thing your firm owns is a licensed surveyor's hours -- and a surprising share of field work spends them on tasks that need a person on-site, not a license. Monument recovery is the clearest case: driving out to find and photograph existing monuments is reconnaissance, not surveying. Here's how to hand that work to someone who isn't a surveyor, get usable results back, and keep your licensee's hours on the part that actually requires them -- with an app that costs nothing to put in a helper's hands.
Field-Side QC vs Office-Side QC: Why Catching Errors at the Truck Beats Catching Them in CAD
The traditional surveying QC model puts the heavy lift in the office, after the crew has packed up and gone home. There's a better-shaped split: real-time, automatic checks at the truck for the predictable busts; office-side review for the subtle and the legal. Here's the specific QC menu worth running on the field side, why it earns its keep, and what's still office-only.
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