Telecom Field Data, Finally Mapped
Tower climbs, fiber route surveys, and splice closures happen in the exact places where cellular coverage fails. Mapalyze gives telecom field crews one platform to capture inspection forms, geotagged photos, and line-geometry routes — offline, on-device, and ready for GIS export the moment they hit signal again.
Telecom providers lose an estimated $3.2B annually from inaccurate or incomplete field records
What a Fiber Route Survey Actually Looks Like
A two-person crew gets dispatched to survey 31 miles of proposed fiber optic route through a mix of suburban rights-of-way and rural county roads. The survey protocol requires them to capture the proposed route as a continuous line geometry, document every splice point and handhole location with GPS coordinates, photograph existing strand conditions at each attachment point, and record make-ready notes for poles that need modifications before fiber can be lashed. It is 38 degrees out, they have been driving since 6 AM, and the route sheet is already falling apart on the clipboard.
With the typical workflow, the crew uses a consumer GPS app for pins, takes photos on personal phones, and records strand counts and make-ready notes on a printed route sheet. Back at the office, a GIS technician spends two full days re-digitizing the route from GPS waypoints, matching loose photos to pole IDs, and transcribing handwritten notes into the design database. By the time the data is clean, the construction crew is already asking for the engineering package.
This is the bottleneck Mapalyze removes.
How Mapalyze Solves It
Trace the Route, Keep the Data
Trace proposed or as-built fiber routes directly on-device as line geometries with GPS precision. Each route segment is linked to its form record, so strand counts, cable types, and construction notes travel with the spatial data. Export the complete route as GeoJSON or Shapefile and load it directly into your design platform — no re-digitizing. Learn more about GIS geometry capture in Mapalyze.
No More Nightly Photo Sorting
Capture photos of antenna arrays, splice closures, cable attachments, and ground-level equipment directly within the inspection record. Every image is automatically tagged with GPS coordinates, a timestamp, and the parent record ID. Batch upload handles large photo sets in the background while the crew moves to the next structure. At the end of the day, every photo is already linked to the right tower sector or pole.
Splice Docs That Are Complete
Build custom forms for splice point inspections with fields for fiber count, splice type, closure model, and test results. Conditional logic surfaces different fields based on closure type or installation status. Repeatable sections let crews document multiple splices per handhole in a single record. Every submission is timestamped and version-tracked for compliance audits.
Signal or No Signal, It Works
Fiber routes run through exactly the places where coverage drops — rural corridors, underground vaults, dense tree canopy. Mapalyze stores everything on-device first. Crews can survey an entire 31-mile route without a single bar of signal. When they drive back through a coverage zone, it all syncs automatically. Read more about the offline sync architecture.
Built for Telecom Crews
Line Geometry Capture
Trace fiber routes, cable paths, and strand runs as line geometries on-device. Each segment carries its full attribute data.
True Offline Mode
Not a fallback. Offline is how it runs. Survey entire routes without connectivity. Data syncs when signal returns.
GeoJSON & Shapefile
Export routes, splice points, and tower locations in open GIS formats. Load directly into QGIS, ArcGIS, or your fiber design platform.
Versioned Smart Forms
Update inspection templates centrally without breaking old submissions. Conditional fields keep forms clean and relevant to each equipment type.
See the full capabilities list on the features page, or learn how Mapalyze works as a field data collection app built for crews that work where the signal ends.
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