Look at what you have

Whose job: anyone with an account. You should see the network on a map, coloured by condition.

What you are doing

You are looking at the network you loaded, coloured by condition. This is the step where the data stops being a file and starts being a picture of the council's roads, and it is worth doing before anything is calculated from it.

Anyone can do this. It is also the step to do WITH somebody who knows the roads — a works supervisor will spot a wrong colour on a street they drive every week faster than any validation rule will.

What PaveKeep does with it

Nothing. The map and the dashboard are readings of what is already there.

Colour is condition, and the scale is the one your council configured (or the platform default). A road with no survey behind it is not coloured — it is drawn as unknown, which is the single most important thing this screen does and the subject of the next step.

What it will not do

• The method — A colour is a summary of a summary. Two roads shown the same red can need completely different work — one resurfaced, one rebuilt — and the map cannot tell you which. It tells you where to look.
• What you have not got yet — It shows what you have loaded. A network that looks better than you expect is usually a network where the bad roads have not been surveyed yet, not a network in good condition — which is why the next step exists.
• The product — The map draws segments, not your council's own asset boundaries. Where your register treats a whole road as one asset and PaveKeep has cut it into eight-metre segments, the shapes will not line up one to one. Your own asset number is carried on the road, so the link back is exact even where the geometry is finer.

How you know it worked

Before: a network with at least one survey filed.

Do: open the map.

After: the network drawn and coloured, with the unsurveyed part visibly uncoloured rather than absent.

If it looks wrong, nothing here needs undoing — this screen changes nothing. What is wrong is upstream: either the network or the survey. Both have a way back, on their own pages.

Hand to: anybody who knows the roads. Their disagreement with this screen is data you will not get any other way.

If it went in wrong: there is nothing to undo at this step. What to do instead is under what it will not do, above.

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