A quick and cost-effective method is proposed in this work to establish a database for GIS for road surface monitoring purposes.
This work can be performed by one person (one-man job).
The whole process of circling the city for road pavement distresses, taking photos, coordinates measurements, geo-tagging, and establishing a database for 50 points was less than two working days and without any prior knowledge about the distress locations.
Much more points can be established in the database providing that the road pavement distress points are known or reported in advance by the local authorities.