Rating condition

A rating is a judgment made on a date. In AssetLink it is recorded as an inspection, so one survey can rate many blocks at once and you can always see who rated what, when, and on which scale.

Ratings use your department's own scale. A new account starts on a common one (PASER, 1 to 10) that an admin can replace. See Your rating scale and word lists.

Starting a rating

All of these open the same form on the right of the Roads page, with the map in Blocks view.

• One block: click the block, then Rate this block.
• A whole street: click any block of it, then under This street press Rate.
• An area: with no block selected, under An area press Rate, click around the blocks, and double-click to close the shape.
• A section: open the section and press Rate this section. See Sections.

You can also start from the Inspections page with Rate a Road, which brings you here.

One inspection rates at most 200 blocks. For more, rate a smaller area or one street at a time.

Filling in the form

Blocks are listed in the order you would drive them, and each row shows when that block was last rated. Hover over a row to see the block light up on the map.

1. If most blocks are the same, type the rating once in the box at the top and press Apply. Then change any block that is different.
2. Type a rating for each block. A coloured tag shows the band it falls in as you type.
3. To record what you saw, open Note distresses on a block and mark each one low, medium or high.
4. Check Date rated. It starts at today.
5. Choose Rated by if you want the rater's name on record.
6. Save.

A block you leave blank is simply left out of the inspection.

A rating dated in the future is refused. The app allows for time zones, so tomorrow's date is the latest it accepts.

Not finished yet?

Under Status, choose Still rating — keep it off the map for now. The ratings are saved but do not colour the map until the inspection is completed.

What a rating changes

A block's condition is always its most recent completed rating. The map colours by it, the street list shows each street's worst block, and the block's panel keeps the full history, newest first. Click a row in the history to open that inspection.

If a rating was wrong, correct it on the Inspections page: open the inspection and use Change beside the block.

When a block shows a rating it was not given

A block that belongs to a section shows the section's rating until it has a newer one of its own. On the map it is drawn fainter, and its panel says the rating is from the section. Press Rate this block to give it its own.