About Site Dashboard·Map-based site context with live context + climate layers.
What Site Dashboard does
Type a location and the map centres there and loads site context. Toggle layers (buildings, transit, trees, water) and read live counts as you pan / zoom — useful for very-early site research.
- Engine:
- MapLibre
- Layers:
- Buildings · Trees · Roads
- Metrics:
- Live viewport counts
How it works
A reading of OpenStreetMap, nothing more and nothing less. Each layer is a live query against the public OSM database, and the counts you see are counts of what is actually tagged there \u2014 which is also the honest limit: an empty layer usually means nobody has mapped it, not that nothing is there.
- Layers fetched per-layer from Overpass against live OpenStreetMap data, so a layer you do not open is never downloaded.
- Counts are of tagged OSM features in the current view, recomputed as you pan and zoom.
- Building heights use the OSM height or building:levels tags where present; untagged buildings are shown without a height rather than guessed.
- Requests are spread across several Overpass mirrors, because the public ones vary in health.
How to use it
- Find a location. Type a place name to centre the map.
- Toggle environment layers. Show/hide buildings, trees, roads, water, transit.
- Check viewport metrics. Live counts of what's visible in your current view.
Best used for
- The first ten minutes on an unfamiliar site, before anyone has drawn anything.
- Checking what is nearby \u2014 transit, green space, water \u2014 without opening a GIS package.
- A quick density and grain read across candidate sites.
- Deciding whether a site is worth a proper visit.
Not a substitute for
- Anything survey-grade or boundary-related.
- Planning submissions or due diligence.
- Confirming a feature is absent \u2014 OSM silence is not evidence.
Known limits
- OSM coverage is uneven and volunteer-maintained: dense in some cities, thin a few streets away.
- An empty layer means untagged, not absent. This is the single most common way to be misled here.
- Heights are tags, not measurements, and many buildings carry none.
- Nothing is dated \u2014 a feature may have been removed years before the map catches up.
- Public Overpass mirrors are rate-limited and occasionally slow; a sparse result can simply be a truncated query.