Places organize where the team works. The Map, Places and Visits areas are three ways to find that work, and reports carry the checked findings from each visit. Names the team and the report reader both recognize work best.
The hierarchy can use two or four levels, and its labels are customizable. A farm-and-field structure is one option, and teams outside farming choose words such as site and zone or property and building.
Places can have mapped boundaries. Supported map information includes SSURGO soils, crop history and Sentinel-2 NDVI, with layers clipped to field boundaries. Weather and conditions are also available in the visit workflow.
Everything recorded on a visit files under its place: the voice notes, photos, readings, reports and the tasks that follow. Open a place and its visits read in order, so whoever goes next sees what was found last time and what is still open.
Choose the identity before recording
Use Places in the web app to review the saved hierarchy and Map to see where each place sits. The sidebar has one Places tab per hierarchy level and a Needs a visit view. Pick the right place before you start recording, because every capture from that visit files under it.
Choose the level structure and the words for each level when the team starts, and we set them for you. Statuses, categories and report templates are set on their own pages. The hierarchy names what you visit, and a place’s status or category picks which report template its visits use.
What a boundary is for
A boundary can be drawn or walked on the phone, or imported in the web app. It is a working outline for visits and field layers, not a legal survey of the property line. PropelMapper never draws one for you, so the outline matches the ground your team manages.
A place holds the visit, and the note holds the detail. A building place does not say which room you inspected, and a field place does not say where a sample came from. Say the room, stop or sample ID in the voice note and it carries into the draft, so the report separates the saved place from the exact spot you checked.
Last checked: November 6, 2026