What local data covers your area

Parcels, published hydrants, building footprints, lidar models, and 3D imagery aren't available everywhere. What we check, and what changes without them.

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What this does not do

a published location is the utility's record, not a flow test or proof of water — confirm water supply on scene. Coverage is only the two publishers' service areas; an empty list means no published data covers the location, never that there is no water. MCWA publishes no service status, so every MCWA hydrant reads "status not published". The list is a copy CTT imports from each publisher, not a live feed. Training, pre-planning, and after-action review only — never live-incident reliance.
not an inspection record; the occupant load is an ESTIMATE that names its own derivation, never a verified headcount; parcel-seeded coverage is Monroe County only today (a department elsewhere enters its inventory by hand); not live occupancy or vacancy from any external feed; not a NERIS export — the fields use NERIS names, but CTT does not export the inventory to NERIS.
coverage is baked one district at a time, not county-wide or statewide — today that is the 25-footprint Stone Rd district in Rochester, where 24 of the buildings have a lidar model and the remaining one gets a plain footprint model rather than a guessed shape. Outside a baked district the app falls back to that plain model, raised from the public building footprint, and the screen names its source as map data, not lidar. This is a reconstruction from real lidar data, never a survey, and never an automatic nationwide feature.
photorealistic coverage is Google's and is partial — dense urban is full mesh, suburban degrades at close zoom, rural may be terrain only. Where coverage is missing the app falls back to a plain extruded model and says so on screen rather than pretending. An aerial's reach dome is its rated reach, not a setup plan: it does not account for jack placement, grade, wires, signs, or poles. What it shows as blocked comes from the building model, the included nearby structures and, in the photographic views, the buildings and trees in Google's imagery that are in view, whose shapes are rough and in places missing; the Building model display lays the imagery flat, so trees do not block there. It tests the boom's line, not a platform's own basket.

What local data covers your area

Parcels, published hydrants, building footprints, lidar models, and 3D imagery aren't available everywhere. What we check, and what changes without them.

Coffee Table Tactics works anywhere you can draw on a map. Some features also use local data that a county, a water utility, or a map provider publishes, and that data isn't available everywhere. We don't guarantee any of it for your area.

The five layers

Layer	What it adds	Where it comes from
Parcels	Seed from parcels in the target hazard inventory	A county's parcel roll, for counties whose data we've imported
Published hydrants	The hydrants the Hydrants panel lists near an incident, ready to place	A water utility's published hydrant records, for utilities whose data we've imported
Building footprints	The outline a floor plan can start from, and the plain 3D model	A public building-footprint dataset
Lidar building models	A 3D building with its measured roof shape and height	U.S. Geological Survey lidar, prepared one district at a time
Photorealistic 3D	The photorealistic buildings and terrain in the 3D views	Google's 3D map tiles

How we check your address

When a department is created, we check its address against the first four layers. We check photorealistic 3D the first time someone in the department opens a map. We record which layers cover the department's address, and we check again when that address changes. A department admin can see the result in Admin.

A layer we haven't checked yet, such as photorealistic 3D before anyone has opened a map, shows as not checked. That doesn't mean it's missing.

Where a layer is missing

Every tool still works without local data; you do more of the work by hand:

No parcels: add your target hazards by hand.
No published hydrants: place hydrants yourself. An empty list in the Hydrants panel means no published data covers that spot, never that there's no water.
No building footprint: trace the building's outline yourself in the floor-plan editor.
No lidar model: the 3D views use a plain model raised from the building's footprint, and the screen names that source.
No photorealistic 3D: the 3D views fall back to a plain extruded model and say so on screen.

Where a layer is missing for your area, the Hydrants panel and the parcel seeding in the target hazard inventory say so in place.

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What this does not do

a published location is the utility's record, not a flow test or proof of water — confirm water supply on scene. Coverage is only the two publishers' service areas; an empty list means no published data covers the location, never that there is no water. MCWA publishes no service status, so every MCWA hydrant reads "status not published". The list is a copy CTT imports from each publisher, not a live feed. Training, pre-planning, and after-action review only — never live-incident reliance.
not an inspection record; the occupant load is an ESTIMATE that names its own derivation, never a verified headcount; parcel-seeded coverage is Monroe County only today (a department elsewhere enters its inventory by hand); not live occupancy or vacancy from any external feed; not a NERIS export — the fields use NERIS names, but CTT does not export the inventory to NERIS.
coverage is baked one district at a time, not county-wide or statewide — today that is the 25-footprint Stone Rd district in Rochester, where 24 of the buildings have a lidar model and the remaining one gets a plain footprint model rather than a guessed shape. Outside a baked district the app falls back to that plain model, raised from the public building footprint, and the screen names its source as map data, not lidar. This is a reconstruction from real lidar data, never a survey, and never an automatic nationwide feature.
photorealistic coverage is Google's and is partial — dense urban is full mesh, suburban degrades at close zoom, rural may be terrain only. Where coverage is missing the app falls back to a plain extruded model and says so on screen rather than pretending. An aerial's reach dome is its rated reach, not a setup plan: it does not account for jack placement, grade, wires, signs, or poles. What it shows as blocked comes from the building model, the included nearby structures and, in the photographic views, the buildings and trees in Google's imagery that are in view, whose shapes are rough and in places missing; the Building model display lays the imagery flat, so trees do not block there. It tests the boom's line, not a platform's own basket.

The five layers

Layer

What it adds

Where it comes from

Parcels

Seed from parcels in the target hazard inventory

A county's parcel roll, for counties whose data we've imported

Published hydrants

The hydrants the Hydrants panel lists near an incident, ready to place

A water utility's published hydrant records, for utilities whose data we've imported

Building footprints

The outline a floor plan can start from, and the plain 3D model

A public building-footprint dataset

Lidar building models

A 3D building with its measured roof shape and height

U.S. Geological Survey lidar, prepared one district at a time

Photorealistic 3D

The photorealistic buildings and terrain in the 3D views

Google's 3D map tiles

How we check your address

A layer we haven't checked yet, such as photorealistic 3D before anyone has opened a map, shows as not checked. That doesn't mean it's missing.

Where a layer is missing

Every tool still works without local data; you do more of the work by hand:

No parcels: add your target hazards by hand.

No published hydrants: place hydrants yourself. An empty list in the Hydrants panel means no published data covers that spot, never that there's no water.

No building footprint: trace the building's outline yourself in the floor-plan editor.

No lidar model: the 3D views use a plain model raised from the building's footprint, and the screen names that source.

No photorealistic 3D: the 3D views fall back to a plain extruded model and say so on screen.

Where a layer is missing for your area, the Hydrants panel and the parcel seeding in the target hazard inventory say so in place.