The Past: Paper Locate Cards
- Siloed Data: No real-time data access; paper records have the potential for loss before digitizing.
- Physical Handoffs: physical touchpoints between field crews, in-house, and clients.
- Manual: No digital controls on data entry or reporting, no digital measurements mean landmark-based measurements that may change and render data collected useless
- Less Confidence: Cards can be altered without a digital trail, leading to lower confidence records.
- Less Efficiency: workflows of paper cards usually include scanning, file renaming, emailing and/or uploading; revisions can lead to repeating this cumbersome process wasting valuable time.