Dropping Stations

Waypoints drop by themselves as you walk; they make the line. Stations are the points you drop on purpose, and scans, photos, video, splays and notes go on them. (On the surface, a Hike Line uses pins instead: see Hike Pins.)

Long-press the map to drop a station where you stand, named A1, A2 and so on. Drop them at junctions, at each line's start and end, and wherever you'd set up a tripod. Working beside a traditional team? Match their station numbers. Snapping to a known station also resets Stow Mode drift. Every station also saves a photo of the view, the way the phone faced, its tilt and the compass reading (plus LiDAR depth on iPhones with LiDAR), so a lost calibration can be recovered from it (Inherit calibration). With an environment sensor it also keeps the air: temperature, humidity and pressure.

A scan or a LiDAR video drops a start station where you begin and an end station where you finish, so the line knows where it was taken. Ending a Cave Line drops an end station too (3.2.3 Stations and Branches).

Every station gets its own page with its media, survey numbers and walls (3.3.4 The Station Page). Rename or delete it from the line's page (3.3.5 Managing Stations). Snap back to it later to reset drift (3.2.2 The Cave Screen).