Scanning a route well

A useful scan

A useful scan covers the full climb and enough surrounding rock to establish scale and orientation. It should contain overlapping views, stable focus and consistent lighting wherever possible.

• Capture the start, finish and both sides of the climb.
• Move steadily and keep strong overlap between neighbouring views.
• Avoid people, loose equipment and fast-changing shadows in the reconstruction area.
• Include scale and orientation information when the capture workflow requests it.
• Review the draft before leaving the crag and fill obvious coverage gaps.

Quality is measured, not assumed

A successful upload is not automatically a successful model. Betabace may measure coverage, alignment, scale confidence, texture clarity and whether key route features can be inspected.

Improving an existing model

A later scan may replace the displayed model when it is materially better. The earlier scanner keeps founding credit and the contribution remains in the route history; the currently useful artifact receives the current-use attribution.