Coverage Explorer
The Map tab on the Suburbs page is a read-only explorer for your whole operation: every suburb boundary, every connected site, and every tracked vehicle on one map, with filters to narrow it down and a click-through into any zone.
It is for looking, not editing. Drawing and reshaping boundaries stays in the suburb editor (see Map Boundaries), so nothing on this tab can move a boundary by accident.
To open it: Suburbs in the sidebar → the Map tab.
The numbers along the top
The strip above the map always describes what is currently on screen, so it re-counts as you filter:
| Tile | Means |
|---|---|
| Sites shown | Connected sites passing the current filters. |
| In a suburb | Of those, how many resolve into a suburb — pinned or by location. |
| In none | Sites in no suburb at all. These still dispatch; they are just ranked on distance alone. |
| Pinned by hand | Sites whose suburb was chosen manually rather than derived from coordinates. |
| Suburbs | Suburb boundaries currently drawn on the map. |
| Branches | Named branches (the Catch-all is not counted — it isn't a branch). |
| Fleet live | Vehicles reporting a position in the last 5 minutes, out of the vehicles plotted. |
The Explore rail
The panel on the left drives the map. Hide collapses it when you want the full width; the map keeps its height either way.
Find a site
Type any part of a site's name to narrow the dots to matching sites. The counts above update with it.
Colour sites by
A site dot can be coloured three ways, and the legend at the bottom-left of the map changes with it:
- Suburb — each dot takes the colour of the suburb it resolves into. Sites in no suburb are red.
- Branch — each dot takes the colour of its named branch, and the suburb fills are tinted by branch too. Sites with no named branch are grey. This is the view for "does each branch actually own a sensible patch?"
- How it landed — amber for pinned by hand, blue for by location, red for in no suburb. This is the view for auditing your assignments: a wall of blue means the map is doing the work; scattered amber means someone has been overriding it.
Layers
Tick or untick Suburb boundaries, Sites and Fleet to strip the map back to just what you want to see. Only sites in no suburb is the quickest way to find your coverage gaps — tick it and every remaining dot is a site your boundaries don't reach.
Branches and Suburbs
Both lists are checkbox filters, and leaving a list untouched means "no filter". Ticking:
- a branch narrows the map to that branch's suburbs, their sites, and the vehicles whose unit is homed in it;
- a suburb narrows to that suburb and its sites. Each row shows the suburb's colour and its site count.
Whenever you change either list the map re-frames itself on what's left, so ticking one suburb zooms straight to it. Typing in the search box or toggling a layer deliberately does not move the view.
Fit to view re-frames on demand; Clear filters resets everything.
Reading the map
- Coloured shapes are suburb boundaries, labelled with the suburb name. A disabled suburb is drawn much fainter.
- Dots are sites, coloured by whichever mode you picked.
- Circles with a green pulse are vehicles reporting a live position; grey means the tracker hasn't reported in the last 5 minutes.
Click a site dot for a card showing its suburb, its branch, and how it landed there, with a link straight to the site.
Click a vehicle for its label, the unit it's crewed to, and when it last reported.
Click anywhere inside a suburb to open that suburb's detail — every site inside it, how each one got there, and which units respond. That drill-down is described under Site Assignment.
The globe button on the map switches between the street map and satellite imagery, the same toggle used in the boundary editor.
The explorer draws positions; it never asks for driving directions or travel times. Live ETAs are a dispatch-screen feature.
When the map doesn't appear
The explorer needs WebGL — the browser feature that draws hardware-accelerated graphics — and it needs to reach Mapbox. When either is missing it now says so in place of the map instead of leaving you on a spinner:
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| This browser can't draw the map | The browser isn't providing WebGL. Most often hardware acceleration is switched off, or the session is running over remote desktop. | Turn hardware acceleration on in the browser's settings and reload. |
| Couldn't reach the map service | The map data didn't download. | Check the connection and reload. On a locked-down machine, ask IT whether api.mapbox.com is blocked. |
| The map service rejected this request | Mapbox turned the request down — the map key needs renewing, or the account is over its monthly limit. | Report it; this one is for CleverCam to fix. |
| Map unavailable | No map key is configured for this environment. | Report it; this one is for CleverCam to fix. |
In every one of these cases the Suburbs and Branches tabs still show the same coverage as lists, and the suburb editor still lets you rename a suburb, change its colour and enable or disable it — only drawing the boundary itself needs the map.