Turn map information into something you can hand to someone: a coloured plan, a printed sheet with your title block, or a file for CAD or GIS software.

A site and its neighbours, coloured in Mark up.

Figure 1. A site and its neighbours, coloured in Mark up.

In this guide

  1. Colour parcels — Mark up
  2. Put it on a sheet — Print
  3. Take the data with you — Export
  4. Your firm’s own points — Company data
  5. Where to next

Days 1 and 2 were about finding and reading. Today is about producing. Each section is the shortest route to a result; the full guide is linked from each.

1  Colour parcels

Mark up is the brush on the toolbar. Pick a colour, click Fill , and click parcels — or hold and sweep across a row of them. Each colour you use gets a row in a legend, ready to be named.

Mark up is on: its toolbar along the foot of the map, and three parcels filled.

Figure 2. Mark up is on: its toolbar along the foot of the map, and three parcels filled.
  1. Click the brush .
  2. Choose a colour, click Fill , and click the parcels.
  3. Open Legend and give each colour a name and the legend a heading.
  4. Minimise Mark up. The markup stays on the map.
Note  A markup lives until the page reloads. Print it when it is ready rather than leaving it in an open tab.

Full guide: Map - mark up parcels and build a legend.

2  Put it on a sheet

Print is the printer . The print area appears on the map with the panel: drag it over the job, set the paper and scale, type a title, and click Create PDF. Your markup’s colours and legend go on the sheet as they are on the map.

Print: the print area on the map, and the panel beside it.

Figure 3. Print: the print area on the map, and the panel beside it.

Your name, firm and logo are set once, under the Settings cog at the bottom right of the map: see Make GRIP yours. Full guide: Map - Printing.

3  Take the data with you

The spanner opens Tools, where three tabs take data out of GRIP.

Tools › CSV: survey marks for a controller, CAD or a spreadsheet.

Figure 4. Tools › CSV: survey marks for a controller, CAD or a spreadsheet.
  • CSV — survey marks with coordinates and heights.
  • DXF — a layered CAD drawing of what the map has on.
  • KML — parcels and marks to load into GIS software, such as QGIS or ArcGIS.

Full guide: Map - Export.

4  Your firm’s own points

Company data puts your firm’s own information on the map — job numbers, client references, links to project folders — as points only your firm can see. Once they are there, every past job near the one you are working on is a click away, and searchable from the search box.

5  Where to next

export markup