All articles from Adam Schmehl

Katapult's Approach To Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl April 02, 2018

Pole owners and attachers both have a lot on their plates. Not only are they responsible for providing power and communications service to thousands ...

Katapult's Approach To Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl April 02, 2018

Pole owners and attachers both have a lot on their plates. Not only are they responsible for providing power and communications service to thousands ...

Improving Pole Attachment Processes

Adam Schmehl February 02, 2018

At Katapult Engineering, two fast-paced industries intersect to create a unique training challenge. Software engineering requires great agility; our ...

What Is a Utility Pole Survey? A Field-to-Office Guide

Adam Schmehl December 21, 2017

You have a few thousand poles to survey, a client expecting deliverables on a deadline, and FCC timelines that keep getting shorter. The survey is ...

Photo-Based Pole Data: Upload and Sync Guide for OSP Teams

Adam Schmehl December 20, 2017

You just wrapped a long day in the field. Your crew covered 200 poles across two routes (and a couple pickups on the way home), and you have ...

Pole Data Processing: From Field Photos to Deliverables

Adam Schmehl December 17, 2017

Your field crew just came back with 4,000 photos from a 200-pole survey. The images are sitting on a hard drive. Your client is expecting annotated ...

Photo-Based Pole Data Collection: A Field Workflow Guide

Adam Schmehl November 02, 2017

Your engineering team just discovered that three midspan photos are missing from yesterday's collection run. The poles are four hours away. Your ...

The Katapult Method: Photo-Based Pole Data Collection Guide

Adam Schmehl October 20, 2017

You have 3,000 poles to survey, a crew that just started last month, and a client expecting deliverables by Friday. Traditional data collection would ...

Making Mapping Easier Through Katapult Pro

Adam Schmehl September 28, 2017

Our field crews collect data on 1000+ poles, in multiple markets, on a weekly basis. This means that finding advantages in the smallest margins is ...

Katapult Pro SPIDACalc Export (2017)

Adam Schmehl September 15, 2017

At Katapult Engineering, we talk a lot about pole loading analysis. Whether it's using these programs for our day-to-day work, reviewing them for the ...

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