Reading the map: what every pin color means

On the LakeOps map a property pin is gray when nothing is open there, slate when work is open but untouched, amber when some items are done and green when everything open is finished — while the colored ring around it shows which equipment type the site requires.

The map is the main office screen for a reason: dock work is geographic, and a list cannot tell you that three of the four remaining jobs on a lake are in the same bay.

The fill: how far along the property is

Color	Means
Light gray	Nothing is open here. A property you look after, with no live work.
Slate	Work is open and nobody has touched it yet.
Amber	Some items are done and some are not. Somebody has been here and left part of it — this is the color worth looking for.
Green	Every item on every open job here is resolved.

Amber is the useful one. It is the handoff made visible: a shoreline where a crew got part way and something is still waiting. In most systems that state is invisible because a job is either done or not.

The ring: what gear it takes

The colored ring around a property pin is the equipment type that site requires — the crane barge, the small barge, whatever your types are. The fill says how far along it is; the ring says what it takes to finish. Together they answer the question dispatch actually asks: what is left, and can the boat I am about to send do it?

The smaller pins

Each item contributes up to two pins of its own: where it sits in the water, and where it winters on shore. They are colored by the equipment type that item needs. Zoom in on a property and you are looking at the actual working layout of the site, not a single dot on a driveway. See install and winter-storage pins.

Outlines and zones

Gray outlines are property boundaries, where somebody has drawn one. The larger tinted shapes are zones, in whatever color you gave them. Neither decides anything — they are there so a shoreline reads as a shoreline.

Filtering is instant

Filters — by lake, zone, service, season, status, equipment type — are applied on your device to data that is already loaded. Nothing is fetched when you change one, which is why it feels instant in the office and, more importantly, why the same map keeps working on a boat with two bars.

Satellite

Satellite imagery can be toggled on, and for dock work you generally want it on: you are looking for a dock, a lift and a stretch of shoreline, none of which appear on a street map.

Reading a lake in ten seconds

Any amber pins? Somebody is part way through there — that is where a crew already knows the site.
Are the slate pins clustered? A cluster is a day. Scattered pins on the same water are a different kind of day.
What do the rings say? If four of them want the crane, that is the boat to send.