Build a route

Lasso the doors on the map

The lasso lives on Voters → Map, the only view that plots individual voters. It shares one filter bar with the voter table, so a lasso selects from exactly what the map is showing.

1. Open Voters and switch to the Map tab.
2. Use the filter bar to narrow by tier, party, precinct, or LD.
3. Click the lasso control on the map, then drag a shape around the doors you want. The selected count appears above the map.
4. Click Create Routes.
5. Set doors per route and a name prefix. The modal proposes the split and shows each route’s doors, turf, and estimated hours — nothing is created until you confirm.
6. Assign a canvasser afterwards from the route, or leave it unassigned.

Caution

A lasso is a neighbourhood tool, not a county tool. One pass creates at most 40 routes — about 480 doors at the default 12 per route. Ask for more and it refuses and creates nothing; lasso a smaller area or raise doors per route.

The county command centre, where you pick the area to target. The lasso itself is on the Voters → Map tab.

Note

The map can only select voters it has coordinates for. Ungeocoded voters are not plotted and cannot be lassoed, so they will not appear in any route built from one. The map footer reports how many voters the current filter matches but cannot map — if that number is high for your area, the walk list is incomplete and the fix is geocoding, not the lasso.

Route size

A route here is a block, not a shift — the routes in the field average about 11 doors and under an hour. Doors per route defaults to 12 for that reason. Estimated hours are derived from door counts and are a planning aid, not a measurement.

Strategies

Strategy	Walking order	Best for
Friendlies First	Highest tier and score first, then nearest-next within a tier	The default. Highest-value doors come first; the walking order inside a tier is a nearest-neighbor thread.
Pure geographic	Nearest-neighbor only (no tier bias)	Compact neighborhoods where tier variance is low.
Optimizer	Multi-turf planner	Multi-canvasser balancing, custom signals (narrative tags, fresh AAR feedback), non-linear route shapes.

Logging knockbacks against the route

Once a canvasser starts the route, they log an outcome at each door in the app — one entry per stop as they walk the planned sequence, plus any unplanned doors they knock along the way.

The outcomes are Talked, Not home, Refused, Moved, Come back, and Do not contact. See Canvass lifecycle for what each one means, and Field operations for the canvasser’s full day.

Tips

• Routes over 60 stops rarely finish in a single shift; split instead.
• The CSV export is Google Maps-ready: just paste the column into Maps’ “Add destination”.
• Unassigned routes appear in the coordinator’s queue for later dispatch.