Where should I store Easement Areas, Protection Zones, and Management Zones?

There are many scenarios in which you may need to visualize specific areas of a property on a map: A riparian buffer, an area of prescribed fire, a development zone, or similar geographies of significance existing within the property boundaries. Here are two ways to achieve this visualization in Landscape.

Use the 'General Layers' layer of the Property map

From the Property Details page, click the 'Edit map features....' button and choose 'General Layers.' Then draw or import the area(s) you need to map, using the 'Map feature label' and 'Map description' fields to identify and elaborate on the purpose(s) or use(s) of each area. You will see these areas when the General Record Areas layer is turned on:

If you use 'General Layers' to map these areas of importance, you may want to employ different colors to show the variety of zones being tracked (e.g. blue for a wetland, orange for a management zone, etc.). You can do this by customizing your geography dropdown list options (must be an Administrator to access Settings), and then styling the layer by feature.

Use a map-enabled Work Item

Human Use, Resource, and Tracked Right work items, among others, each have their own map layers and could be used exclusively or in combination to track meaningful areas of a property. This option is best if you want to track additional information about each area such as start/end dates, size limitations, and links to tasks or other work related to the area. Read more about how to create new work items in this article: Work.

Once you have created the appropriate work item, click the 'Edit map features...' button and draw or import the area of interest. Use the fields specific to each work item type to log additional information. You will see these areas when the corresponding Work Layer is turned on: