Google Earth was a fantastic addition to my toolkit and I’ve been using it to measure roofs since 2006 (back when you had to pay for the Pro Version), so I’ve gotten pretty good with it. You had to get up on the roof with a measuring wheel and graph paper, and spend hours up there.
(We bill roof maintenance programs and roof condition assessments based on the size of the roof.)īefore Google Earth came out, measuring roof areas was a real pain. An accurate accounting of total roof area is pretty important when you bill your clients based on roof square footage.
I’ve been calculating roof areas for real roofs for over 20 years now.
