Windows · pipeline environmental inspection
The photos come off the camera already named.
Construction Paper takes a day's field photos, matches each one to the nearest station on your alignment, and renames it accordingly — then stamps what you need on the face of it and hands you a KMZ you can open in Google Earth. Built on a pipeline right-of-way, by someone walking one.
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What it does
Rename by station
Reads the GPS out of each photo, finds the nearest station point in your KMZ, and writes a name you can sort — station, project, original filename. Videos too.
Marco Polocator
Burns location, bearing, date and a caption onto the image itself, so the photo still says where it was taken after it has been mailed, pasted into a report and printed.
Google Earth KMZ
Exports the whole day as a KMZ — thumbnails on the alignment, a ribbon of the route, a minimap and a compass on each photo. Send it and the other person sees what you saw.
GIS tools
Pull features, clip to a station range, build layers, and put NAIP imagery underneath it. Georeferenced output that other software will actually read.
Stale GPS caught
A plausibility check flags photos whose coordinates could not be right — a camera holding the last fix through a treeline is the usual culprit — instead of quietly filing them at the wrong station.
Portable
One executable. Settings, layers, profiles and tile cache live beside it, so it runs from a truck laptop or a thumb drive with nothing installed and nothing left behind.
Who it is for
Environmental and utility inspectors who take a few hundred photos a day along a linear project and have to file every one of them against a station. If you have ever renamed photos by hand at nine at night against a scatter sheet, this was written for you.
Availability
Construction Paper is in an invitation-only rollout. The download is open, but the program will not run without a license key — if you would like one, get in touch and say what you are working on.