Patent ID: 8187003

Claim:
An apparatus for field assessment of static structure sites to provide data in a predetermined format acceptable to at least one taxing authority comprising a personal computing device, having a graphic display screen, a user interface and application software, said user interface being arranged to accept alphanumeric data provided by a user of the apparatus and also accept graphic inputs from the user representative of structural features of the static structure, said application software being arranged to provide a real-time display on said graphic display screen of dimensional data associated with the graphic inputs as they are entered by the user, said application software being arranged to cause said graphic inputs, which comprise segments of polygonal sections or subsections of said static structure, to be entered in any order, regardless of the completion of inputs of said segments of polygonal sections and subsections prior to initiating input of any other of said inputs of polygonal sections or subsections, said application software also being arranged to compute dimensional attributes of enclosed polygons resulting from the graphic input by the user, said application software providing output data in said predetermined format, said apparatus further comprising an electronic connection to an external system capable of receiving said output data in said predetermined format.