About GeoGear Field

Why this exists

I have spent twenty years drafting in AutoCAD Civil 3D at my family’s land-surveying firm in Michigan. The fieldwork is good. The handoff is not.

Every week some piece of field detail did not survive the trip back. A wall material nobody wrote down. A tree shot without a size. A monument condition that lived only in the crew chief’s head. A cut sheet penciled into a field book that came home wet.

Utilities were the worst. Hand-numbered manholes, a paper cut sheet, and me at the keyboard guessing which structure was which. I could call the crew off the next job or I could guess. Neither belongs anywhere near a drawing.

So I built the tool I kept wishing the crew carried. Notes pinned to an aerial map, with photos and the fields a surveyor actually needs, filled in while standing at the structure instead of remembered in the truck. The office opens a link and sees every note exactly where it belongs.

What it is and what it is not

GeoGear Field records reference notes for the drafter. They are not survey-grade points. A pin comes from the iPad’s GPS or a tap on the map. That is plenty to put a note on the right structure and nowhere near enough to stake from.

The data collector stays the instrument of record. This product replaces the chicken-scratch, not the rover.

Part of GeoGear

GeoGear Field comes from GeoGear, the same small company behind GeoGear Supply, which sells field gear, and GeoGear Tools, which builds web tools for the survey office. One shop, all of it built around survey work.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, or a feature your crew keeps asking for. Email hello@geogearsupply.com. Every message gets read by someone who has drafted from bad field notes.