The Roads page

The Roads page has a list on the left, the map in the middle, and a panel on the right that opens when you pick something.

Three views

The switch at the top right of the map changes what the map is made of.

• Streets shows whole streets and their work history. The page opens here.
• Blocks shows every block separately. This is the view for marking whose road it is and for rating.
• Sections shows your own named sections. It appears once you have at least one section.

Changing view clears your selection and your search.

The street list

The left panel is headed Street Activity. Each street shows when it was last worked, how many work orders it has, and an amber count of the ones still open. Once any block of a street is rated, the street also shows its worst block and how many of its blocks are rated.

Out of the box the list holds only streets that have recorded work, so a new account sees No road work recorded yet. To see the rest:

• type in Find a street…, which searches every street whether it has work or not, or
• untick Only streets with recorded work.

The list shows up to 50 streets at a time. When there are more, a line at the foot of the list says so. If the one you want is not listed, search for it.

Filters

Filters appear above the list once there is something to filter on:

• Ours shows streets with at least one block marked as yours.
• A button for each of your two worst condition bands, named in your own words. On the starting scale these are "Failed" and "Poor".
• A surface list, starting at Any surface.

Using a filter searches every street, not only the ones with recorded work.

Picking a street or a block

In Streets view, click a street in the list or on the map. A card shows its work history, and Open work orders takes you to them.

In Blocks view, click a block. The panel on the right shows everything known about that one block: whose road it is, what it is made of, its condition, and the work done on it.

What the lines mean in Blocks view

Once at least one block is rated, a Colour by switch lets you colour the map by ownership or by condition.

Coloured by ownership:

Line	Meaning
Darkest	Ours
Dashed	Not ours
Light grey	Nobody has said
Amber, dashed	A road you have records for that is no longer in the Census road file
Grey, dotted	A block retired from your records

A block nobody has answered for, but which has work orders, draws darker than one with nothing recorded.

Coloured by condition, each block takes the colour of its band on your scale, from green for the best to red for the worst, and the legend lists your bands by name. A retired block is drawn grey and dotted in this colouring too. A block drawn fainter is showing a rating it did not get directly: it is reading its section's rating. See Sections.

Retiring a block, and bringing it back

Retire a block when it is no longer a road you keep records of, such as one that was vacated or handed to another agency. Open the block in Blocks view and choose Retire this block at the bottom of the panel, then Yes, retire. The button is there only for a block you have recorded something about.

A retired block leaves the map's colours, every list and every total. If it is in a section, the section stops counting it. Nothing is deleted: its ownership, its ratings and its work history are all kept.

Two things stop a block being retired or used while retired:

• A block with a work order still open cannot be retired. Finish or cancel the work first. The message names the work orders.
• Nothing new can be recorded on a retired block. It cannot be rated, described or put on a work order, and a work order drawn along the street does not pick it up.

A retired block stays on the Blocks map as a grey dotted line, and the legend shows Retired while one is in view. To bring it back, click it and choose Restore this block. It returns exactly as it was, in the same section and with the same answers.

When the map says to zoom in

The map draws a limited number of lines at once. If you see Too many blocks in view to draw them all — zoom in to see the rest., nothing is missing. Zoom in and the rest appear.

Roads no longer in the Census road file

The street network comes from the Census Bureau's road file, which is revised from time to time. When a road you have records for leaves that file, an amber banner at the top of the page says so. Nothing is lost: the road keeps every record and is still drawn from the shape it had. Show lists the roads, and clicking one opens it. You do not need to do anything.