The map
Every dock and lift on your shoreline, pinned where it goes
LakeOps keeps two map points for every piece of shoreline equipment you service: the install point where it sits in the water, and the storage point where it stacks for the winter. Drop those pins once, and a hand who’s never been to the place can find every piece of it — in May and again in October.
Two places for every piece: the water and the yard
The install point is where the thing goes in. The storage point is where it stacks in October. Both get dragged onto satellite imagery once, and a pin a person placed by hand never gets moved by the software afterward. In the fall that storage pin is the whole job — the difference between a crew that knows where the sections stack and a crew standing in a driveway on the phone to you.
- Drag pins on satellite or topographic imagery, right where the dock actually sits
- Property lines drawn in, so a crew knows where the lot ends
- Bays and arms outlined as zones — the way you already think about the lake
- Photos of both states on every piece: how it looks in the water, how it stacks in the yard
The pin tells you how much of the property is actually done
A place marked “done” when only the dock is in — and the lift’s still waiting on the crane — is the thing that costs you the return trip. Here the pin can’t lie about it. Gray means nobody’s been yet. Amber means somebody has, and it isn’t finished. Green means everything on that shoreline is resolved. A boat coming down the shore Thursday sees an amber pin and knows before they tie up.
- Gray, amber, green — nothing done, part done, all done
- The ring around the pin is the gear that shoreline needs
- Filter by lake, bay, service, what’s left, or required gear
- Filtering happens on the phone, so the crew’s map still filters with no signal
Sell a lift, keep the history
A lift a customer sold still owns five seasons of your work — the photos, the notes, the minutes, the damage somebody flagged coming out in October. Retiring it takes it off next season’s work and off the crew’s list, and leaves every bit of that record where it is.
- Retire a piece instead of deleting it — the history stays
- Flag damage at removal and it’s waiting for you in March, when it’s repair work
- “Needs the crane barge” lives on the piece, not in somebody’s head
- “Needs four hands” too, for the runs that genuinely do
Questions about this
- Does it use Google Maps?
- No. LakeOps draws its own map so it can keep working where there’s no cell signal, which is most of a working day on most lakes. Google is used for one thing only — filling in an address when you type a new property.
- Can I see where a dock section is supposed to sit before I get there?
- Yes. Every piece carries an install point, a winter-storage point, and photos of both states. Heading out on an install the crew sees the install photos; heading out on a removal they see how it stacks in the yard.
- What if a property doesn’t have a pin yet?
- It shows up on the office screen as a property with no pin, because a crew can’t find it on the map. That count is one of the first things you see each morning.
See it with your own shoreline on the screen
Half an hour. A few of your properties loaded, the pins dropped, a season run through it. If it’s not obviously better than what you’re doing now, that’s the answer you’ll get.