Areas and zones
Draw operational and safety areas, set severity, add checklists, and use geofencing and capacity alerts.
An area is a shape drawn on the map: a stage, a car park, a camping field, a no-go strip behind a fence. Areas give a place a name and a purpose, and they can carry a note, photos and files, and a checklist. This page covers the three kinds of shape, how to draw and reshape them, and the optional headcount features that administrators can switch on.
Three kinds of shape#
| Type | What it is for | Look on the map |
|---|---|---|
| Area | A named place: Main stage, Backstage, Camping north. A name is required. | A fill and outline in one of eight colours you choose. |
| Security zone | A place to watch out for. It has a severity instead of a colour and an optional name. | Colour and outline weight follow the severity. |
| Powerzone | Power distribution areas that an administrator brings in with an import. You can edit their outline and details, but you cannot turn a normal area into one or the other way round. | A neutral treatment. |
Severity#
Security zones use four severities. Each has its own colour and line weight so a critical zone stands out at a glance.
| Severity | Colour |
|---|---|
| Critical | Red |
| High | Orange |
| Medium | Amber |
| Info | Blue |
Area colours#
Areas offer eight colours: slate (the default), blue, cyan, green, lime, amber, red and purple. Every colour also has a text label, so the picker never relies on colour alone.
Draw an area#
- Press Z, or choose Zone from the Create menu. You can also right-click the map (long-press on a phone) and choose Add Area.
- Click or tap the map to drop each corner of the shape, going round the place.
- Choose Finish polygon. Pressing Enter also finishes. Use Cancel to abandon the drawing.
- In the form, choose the Type, give it a Name, and pick a colour (Area) or a Severity (Security zone). Add a Note of up to 500 characters if people need to know what to watch for.
- Choose Create area or Create zone.
Open and edit an area#
Tap an area on the map to open its panel. From there you can change the type, name, colour or severity, the note, the attachments and the checklist, and then choose Save changes. Right-clicking an area gives a small menu with Edit, Reshape and Delete.
Only the person who drew an area, and full administrators, can edit or delete it. Everyone who can see the area can still tick items off its checklist.
Reshape an area#
Reshaping lets you move the outline without redrawing it. Choose Reshape in the area panel or in the right-click menu.
- Drag a corner handle to move that corner.
- Drag a small midpoint handle to add a new corner on that edge.
- Drag the blue handle in the middle to move the whole shape without changing its form.
- Choose Save shape to keep the change or Cancel (or press Esc) to drop it.
Notes, files and checklists#
An area can hold photos and documents in the same way a note can, and the panel shows them under Attachments. Files are added while editing and saved with Save changes.
Areas also have a checklist of up to 50 items, using the same shared checklist window as notes and tasks. The person who drew the area (or an administrator) adds, renames and removes items. Anyone who can see the area can tick items off, and simultaneous ticks from several people are merged rather than overwriting one another. See Notes for how the checklist window works.
Geofences and capacity#
Administrators can turn an area into a geofence. A geofence tracks who is inside it, live, using the locations of people who are sharing theirs.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Geofence | Counts the people currently inside the shape and records when they enter and leave. |
| Capacity | An optional maximum headcount, from 1 up. When the count goes above it, administrators are alerted on screen and by push notification. |
When someone steps into a High or Critical zone that has a geofence, they get a warning message on their own screen. Administrators see the live occupant list of a geofenced area in its panel.
Find and show areas#
The Views & orientation button on the map has a Zones entry. It lists every named area, including ones outside the current view, and choosing one flies the map there. To switch shapes on or off, use the layer toggles described in Map, layers and views.