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PUBLIC BETA · ADVISORY REVIEW AIDS

SURVEY REVIEW SOFTWARE · AUSTRALIA

Review before you sign off.

Advisory QA for Australian survey teams — evidence-linked findings across reports, plan PDFs and map linework. Your professional judgement stays exactly where it belongs.

Checks anchored to public standards

Compare your own figures against these instruments with the free advisory traverse misclose and level loop closure checkers — two of eight free field tools.

"Most reports get reviewed with a highlighter and a deadline."

Office review is where survey quality is actually decided — and it's squeezed between field schedules, lodgement dates, and a profession-wide shortage of senior reviewers. Checks get done from memory. Evidence lives in someone's head. SurveyMarkup gives the review step its own instrument: every automated check is anchored to a published standard, every finding is linked to the exact line, page, or coordinate that triggered it, and nothing is ever hidden behind a score.

Three tools, one review surface

Sheet 1 of 3

Report Reader

Parses .rpt, .txt and text-based PDF reduction reports. Detects CRS and datum context (GDA2020/GDA94, MGA zones 49–56, AUSGeoid2020/AHD), checks F1/F2 observation spreads, loop miscloses and GNSS quality indicators, and flags findings with the source line attached.
Sheet 2 of 3

PDF Markup

Evidence-linked annotation for plan and report PDFs. Findings stay chained to the page and region they came from — review notes that a second reviewer can actually trace, not orphaned highlights.
Sheet 3 of 3

Map Linework

Loads linework for visual review against coordinate context — zone extents, duplicate and zero-length geometry, datum mismatches — on an instrument-style map, with every flag tied to the feature that raised it.

Every finding, linked to evidence.

How a review runs

01

Upload working files

Reports, plan PDFs, linework. Source files are read, never modified.

02

Checks flag findings with evidence

Standards-anchored checks raise OK / WARN / FAIL / REF findings, each linked to the line, page or coordinate behind it.

03

You review and decide

Work through findings, add notes, export a review summary. Sign-off remains an act of professional judgement by the registered surveyor — on paper, not in software.

Start from the file you have.

Three task-entry paths — all advisory, all unverified, synthetic or cleared test files during public beta.

What a finding looks like

SYNTHETIC SAMPLE · NO CLIENT DATA

WARN

MGA zone metadata disagrees with coordinate range

Header declares MGA zone 55; eastings fall within zone 56 extents. Confirm the intended zone before export.

LINE 214 · HEADER
REF

AUSGeoid2020 stated; derived AHD heights consistent

Geoid model declared and height derivation consistent with the stated model. Recorded for the review trail.

RPT p.2
OK

Traverse misclose 0.018 m over 412 m

Within the firm-configurable guidance for this class. Advisory finding — findings of this type can never block an export.

TRAV 03

See a worked example

Honest status

What works today, what's available by request, and what we're exploring. No roadmap theatre.

Now

Available
  • Report Reader
  • QA demo
  • Public docs
  • Supported files
  • Synthetic sample files

Pilot

By request
  • PDF Markup evidence workflow
  • Map Linework advisory QA
  • AI explanations
  • Linked finding / evidence review
  • Review summaries

Exploring

Design / planned
  • Imagery / PSM reference layer
  • Team workflows
  • Payment plans
  • Deeper tolerance-profile tooling
  • Firm pilot workflow

What SurveyMarkup is — and is not

Safety & scope

SurveyMarkup does not certify survey accuracy, cadastral compliance, legal boundaries, or coordinate correctness. It helps prepare and review working information, but original data and final outputs must be checked by a qualified user before use.

Assistance only - professional review remains required.

What it does

  • Reads survey reports and coded linework
  • Highlights advisory findings
  • Preserves source files (read-only)
  • Creates review summaries
  • Helps prepare for professional office review

What it does not do

  • Certify a survey
  • Authorise outputs
  • Replace registered surveyor judgement
  • Alter original source files
  • Make cadastral decisions
  • Make final compliance decisions
  • Produce survey deliverables

Give office review its own instrument.

Public beta, Australian-built, advisory by design. Pilot places are limited while we work closely with early firms.

Reviewed by Tim Albash, survey technician — Wynnum, Brisbane. Who reviews your files