Google Maps and Google Solar
Where an address is autocompleted, how a roof is measured from the sky, what travel time is based on, and the one thing to know — homeowner addresses are sent to Google to do it.
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Google is behind three ordinary things in FieldQuo: the address that completes itself as you type, the roof area and pitch that appear when you press Measure from satellite, and the driving time that shapes booking slots. Each one sends a homeowner's address, or the coordinates behind it, to Google. That is the whole cost — there is no credit metered and no add-on to buy — and it is worth saying plainly.
This article says where each of the three is used, what the roof measurement returns and when it cannot, and what FieldQuo does not use Google for.
Overview
- Address autocomplete — on a new or edited client, in the quote builder's client picker, on Company Settings, when adding an employee, on the public booking page, the self-quote form and the instant-estimate page. A typed address that never picks a suggestion is accepted as is.
- Geocoding — when a job's site address is set, FieldQuo asks Google for its coordinates once and keeps them. Those coordinates are what the time clock compares a punch against (within 250 m reads as on site) and what the small map on Company Settings and the website's contact block show.
- Google Solar — the roof model behind Measure from satellite on a roofing quote, and behind the roofing instant estimate on your website.
- Driving time — Google's distance matrix between two addresses, used to keep booking slots and visits apart by real travel. When Google has no answer, FieldQuo estimates from the straight-line distance and labels it an estimate.
How to measure a roof from an address
- In the quote builder, on a roofing quote type, open the takeoff and press Measure from satellite — or Use the client's address to measure the address already on the quote.
- FieldQuo geocodes the address, asks Google Solar for the nearest building's roof model, and fills in the roof area in square feet and squares, the predominant pitch as rise over 12 with its steepness tier, the number of roof faces, and eave, rake, ridge, hip and valley lengths. A satellite still shows what was measured.
- Check the still against the house. When the pin landed on a neighbour, or the imagery is old, the panel says so; the numbers stay editable and you can type the area and pitch by hand.
Two refusals are normal and both say what to do: We couldn't find that address. Enter the roof area by hand. and Google has no roof model for this building. Enter the area and pitch by hand. Coverage is Google's, not FieldQuo's — rural and newly built houses are the usual gaps. On the public instant estimate a homeowner sees a softer sentence and is invited to request a quote instead.
The roof area is Google's sloped surface area, so no pitch multiplier is applied on top — applying one would count the slope twice. Full detail in Aerial roof measurement.
Tracing by hand
Two surfaces are traced rather than modelled. On a paving quote the designer shows a satellite photo of the address and you trace the driveway or patio and set the scale from a line you know the length of. On the lawn-care instant estimate a homeowner draws their lawn on a Google map and the server recomputes the area. There is no manual roof trace: when Solar has no model, the roof is typed in.
What leaves the building
The address as it is typed, for autocomplete and geocoding; the coordinates of a job, for the roof model, the map image and the driving-time question. That is what FieldQuo's own privacy page lists for Google Maps and Google Solar, and nothing more — no client name, no phone number, no quote. A visitor's browser also talks to Google directly on the booking page and the instant-estimate page, because the autocomplete runs in the browser.
What is not integrated
- No turn-by-turn directions and no route optimisation. FieldQuo places visits and checks travel between them; it does not plan a day's route.
- No live map of the crew. The time clock takes one location fix when a person taps clock in or out, and nothing in between.
- No address suggestions on the job creation form or the website lead form — those take a typed address.
- No cost to you and no metering. Roof measuring is included in every plan.
Who can use it
Anyone signed in can measure a roof or a driveway — the routes ask only for a session, and the quote builder is where it lives, so in practice it is whoever writes quotes: the owner, administrators, Managers, Dispatchers and Estimators. Homeowners use it without an account on the roofing and lawn instant estimates you publish.
Häufige Fragen
Why did the measurement land on the wrong house?
The pin is where Google geocoded the address, and Solar returns the nearest building. The panel says how far the pin was from the building it measured; check the still, and type the area by hand when it is the neighbour.
Does measuring cost credit?
No. Nothing about Google Maps or Solar is metered against your credit.
Does the crew's location go to Google?
No. A clock-in punch is compared with the job's stored coordinates on FieldQuo's side; only the job's address was geocoded, once, when the job was created.
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