# Road stakeout options

Depending on the selected stakeout method, you can add more features to the road or edit existing features when staking out the road.

When staking from a road design file or from surfaces and strings:

- To customize the stations available for stakeout, see Stations available for stakeout.

- To set stakes offset from the road, leaving the roadway clear for construction, define a construction offset.

- To view stakeout deltas relative to a surface, see Additional stakeout deltas to a surface.

- To show the station and offset values of your current position relative to a reference alignment, see Reference alignments.

When staking from a road design file you can also:

- Navigate to and stake the catch point (the point where the design slope intersects with the ground). See Catch point.

- Add or edit a side slope. See Side slopes.

- Define a cross slope when you need to confirm the construction of a road surface. See Cross slopes.

- Define a subgrade when the cross section represents the finished road surface and you need to stake the points defining other surfaces in the road. See Subgrades.