The things people look up rather than read.
Roles
Seven roles can be assigned to a member, held per organization: Admin, Manager, Editor, Analyst, Viewer, Operator and Billing.
Role |
Intended for |
Admin area |
|---|---|---|
Admin |
Full control of the organization and everything in it. |
All five sections |
Manager |
Running the sites they're scoped to. |
Sites, Code Profiles |
Editor |
Creating and editing data without organization administration. |
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Analyst |
Working the data and producing deliverables. |
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Viewer |
Read-only access. |
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Operator |
Field crew — getting captures uploaded. |
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Billing |
Commercial contact for the account. |
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Capture states
You see |
Underlying states |
What it means |
|---|---|---|
Complete |
completed |
Processed. Artifacts are final and downloadable. |
In progress |
uploading · queued · processing · unlinked |
Still moving. Wait for it to land. |
Flagged for review |
upload_failed · in_review · failed · cancelled |
Needs attention. Retry the upload, or raise a ticket. |
Vocabulary
Capture |
One recording run from a qCam. The atomic unit of data in Looq. |
Site |
The container captures are assigned to. Holds settings and exports. |
qCam |
The capture hardware. |
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LMR .lmr |
The raw capture file a qCam produces. |
RINEX |
The GNSS observation file from a base station, used to correct a capture's positions. |
Auto-base |
Correction against a reference station Looq picks automatically. |
Local base |
Correction against a base station you set up and recorded yourself. |
PPK |
Post-processed kinematic — correcting positions after the fact. Every capture gets a PPK report. |
PPP |
Precise point positioning — computing a precise coordinate for your base from its own observation file. |
ATC |
Align to Control — the wizard in the Align panel that georeferences a capture against ground control. |
CRS |
Coordinate reference system. Set per site; captures are processed against it. |
Code profile |
A named catalogue of qSurvey field codes, maintained by Admins. |
Component library |
The catalogue of poles, crossarms, insulators and hardware qPole builds from. |