Marking which roads are yours

Every block has one of three answers to "whose road is this?": Ours, Not ours, or nobody has said. AssetLink never guesses. Until somebody answers, the block reads Nobody has said whose road this is, and that is different from "not ours".

All of this happens on the Roads page with the map switched to Blocks.

One block

1. Click the block on the map.
2. Under Whose road, press Ours or Not ours.

It saves at once. There is no Save button for this.

A whole street

1. Click any block of the street.
2. In the toolbar at the top left of the map, under This street, press Mark.
3. In the Mark blocks panel, choose Ours or Not ours and press Apply.

The panel tells you how many blocks were updated.

Everything in an area

1. Make sure no block is selected. Close the block panel if one is open; the area tools are hidden while a block is selected.
2. Under An area, press Mark.
3. Click around the blocks you mean, corner by corner, and double-click to close the shape.
4. In the Mark blocks panel, choose Ours or Not ours and press Apply.

One area can change up to 2,000 blocks. Past that, the app asks you to draw a smaller area or mark it street by street.

Describing blocks while you are there

The Mark blocks panel can also set the Surface and the number of Lanes for every block in the street or area. Anything you leave at Leave as it is is not touched.

For one block, the block panel has more under The road: Surface, Width (ft), Lanes and Last resurfaced. These need Save.

Taking an answer back

Clear puts a block back to "nobody has said". Use it when an answer was a mistake. Use Not ours only when you know the road belongs to somebody else, such as the state or the county.

Reading the map

With the map coloured by ownership, yours are the darkest lines, roads that are not yours are dashed, and roads nobody has answered for are light grey. The legend appears once at least one block in view has an answer, or has been retired. A retired block is a grey dotted line; see Retiring a block.

About lengths

The only length AssetLink shows for a road is the Census Bureau's published centreline length. On screen it is labelled TIGER, the Census Bureau's name for its road file. It is a published figure, not a measurement of your pavement, and the app never shows a length beside a work order.