Trace It Once. Get The Real Number.

Tap for anything with corners. A driveway, an apron, a rectangular lot: a handful of taps and you are done, and every point stays exactly where you put it. Draw is for curves — a kidney pool, a rounded courtyard, a bed that wanders — where placing forty points by hand would be slower and no more accurate.

The imagery is already to scale, so accuracy is down to how closely you follow the edge. Zoomed in, a careful trace is tight enough to bid flat work against. Where a few square feet decides whether a job is worth taking, zoom further in and check the total against your own minimum before you send it.

Yes. Once the shape is closed, every point is a handle — drag one and the outline moves with it, and the square footage recalculates to match. You do not have to start the trace again because one corner landed in the grass.

Trace it in sections. After the first shape, + Section on the map toolbar adds another to the same measurement: a parking field, an apron and a truck court, each named, each with its own area, all adding up to one total. − Cutout takes a shape out: draw an island or a building inside a section and it comes off the total. Sections add, so don't overlap them. Pool Deck mode still measures a deck minus its pool.