Guide

How to use Vero, and what to look for when classifying each type of photo. The photos below are real confirmed examples, kept for reference only — they aren't sent to the AI.

How to use Vero

  1. Drop a folder of photos on the Upload page, then click Start Scan. The AI suggests a label for each photo (or leave labels blank to fill in by hand if AI is off).
  2. Review the batch. Fix any label that looks wrong, set the Vault ID (it's guessed from the folder name — correct it if that guess is wrong), and pick the Area (auto-suggested from the Vault ID).
  3. Watch for GPS warnings. If a photo's own location doesn't match the Vault ID's known coordinates, it's flagged with a red cell, a banner, and a pin on the map — it may belong to a different hand hole. Use the "closest match" link in the warning to preview that hand hole's photos side by side before deciding.
  4. Finish the batch with Confirm & Rename (or Next Batch first, if uploading several folders at once). If the whole folder shouldn't be processed — wrong vault, duplicate run, bad photos — use Reject this upload instead and leave a comment explaining why. The photos and labels aren't lost — see below.
  5. Fixing a rejected folder. A rejected folder shows up on Folder History, clickable just like a confirmed one. Opening it shows the photos and labels as they were at rejection (with the GPS warning still highlighted, if that's what caused it) and the full rejection history. Pick a replacement file on just the photo(s) that need fixing — everything else is left alone — then Reupload & Rescan re-runs AI labeling and the GPS check on the whole set and lands back on the normal review screen to confirm.
  6. Download the renamed photos. After confirming, the Done page has a Download ZIP button for that vault (or Save to Folder…, which writes the files straight to a folder you pick, in Chrome/Edge). Uploading several folders at once? Use ← Back to batch list to reach Download All Confirmed as ZIP (or Save All Confirmed to Folder…) and get every finished vault in one go. A single vault can also be downloaded straight from its row on Folder History.
  7. Folder History lists every folder ever dropped into Vero, with its Area, how many times it's been seen, and any rejection comments. Click a confirmed folder to view or relabel its photos, or a rejected one to see why and re-upload.
  8. Progress shows how many of the known hand holes are done, broken out by segment, plus a map with toggleable Complete / Incomplete / Rejected pins.

What to look for

Every hand hole site has two physical landmarks: a marker post sticking up out of the ground, and the vault lid in the ground just north of it. Every photo label comes down to which of these is in frame, and how.

Marker Post

A white/light-colored post, roughly waist-high, with a distinctive orange cap on top. The cap opens to expose a wiring terminal: a black mounting plate with several silver bolts and looped wires connecting them. A tight close-up looking straight down into that open terminal still counts as MarkerPost, even if little of the post itself is visible.

Watch out for: a small round bright-orange disc lying flat on the ground near a vault (a "buried fiber optic cable" warning tag) is not the marker post, even though it's also orange — the real post always sticks up out of the ground.

Interior

Looking down into an open vault — the concrete-lined cavity in the ground, with cables running through open air or loose inside it. This is different from a MarkerPost terminal close-up, even though both can show wires: Interior is the below-ground cavity itself, MarkerPost is the post's own terminal.

Direction shots (North / South / East / West)

A wide shot showing both the marker post and the vault together. The vault is always just north of the marker post, so the direction comes from how the two line up in frame:

Map

A photo or screenshot of a map/diagram with location info — not a photo of the physical site. No example gallery needed here since it's not a landmark to visually match against.