Set up your workspace

Spend a few minutes here before you start mapping and everything after it goes faster. All of it lives in one place: click Preferences on the left toolbar.

Areas and holes

Holes (1 through 18) and areas (Green, Fairway, Tee, Rough) are the labels every item can carry, and they power your filters, pickers, and the inspection scheduler. Add them on the Areas & Holes tab, matching your scorecard. Deleting a label later won’t retag items already using it.

Your objects

Every object type, Catch Basin, Area Drain, Cleanout, Outlet, and the rest, has its own icon and colors. On the Icons tab you can recolor a type, rename it, or duplicate a type to make a new one. Add Icon creates a brand-new type: name it, then either upload an SVG or draw the icon on the built-in canvas, picking a stroke width and colors, and optionally giving it a colored badge background. To change the artwork on any existing type, stock or custom, click the small upload button on the corner of that icon’s preview; Change Artwork offers the same upload-or-draw choice. Icons you upload or draw keep their own colors, so the recolor controls are disabled for them. Change a type here and every placed object of that type updates for the whole crew, so the map reads like your system.

Drain line templates

This step involves more detail than the others, because a drain line carries a full pipe-and-trench build. A template captures one of those builds once, like “4-inch perforated HDPE in pea gravel”, and every line you draw with it inherits the whole spec automatically.

On the Drain Lines tab, add a template and fill in what applies:

• Drain line type: Pipe in trench, or Trench (no pipe) for a French drain or gravel-only run (which hides the pipe fields).
• Pipe details (pipe-in-trench only): material, wall type, size, perforation, and whether it’s socked or wrapped.
• Trench details: width, depth, and the backfill material.
• How it looks: line style, map width, and a color, so each kind of run reads differently at a glance.

Map width is how thick the template’s drain lines draw on the map. It is a visual setting, not a measurement: drag the slider and the preview shows the stroke in the template’s color and line style. It changes nothing about the line itself; the pipe size and trench width stay what you entered above.

Give each build its own template and color. Build at least one before you draw. With none, the drawing tools have nothing to work with.

Editing a template that is already in use

Drain lines keep the settings they were drawn with. When you edit a template that has drain lines on the map and click Update Template, Turfile asks Update mapped drain lines? and names what you changed, for example “You changed the color and trench depth of “4-inch perforated HDPE”. 38 drain lines on the map were drawn with this template.”

• Update 38 drain lines applies the change to every drain line drawn with the template. A progress bar counts the lines as they update on your map, then the window reports Updated 38 drain lines and closes on its own once the map is up to date. Only the settings you changed are touched; the lines keep their routes, connections, and logs.
• Only new drain lines leaves the mapped lines as they are and uses the new settings for drain lines you draw from now on.

The prompt only appears when the edit changes something the mapped drain lines show (name, drain line type, pipe material, wall type, pipe size, perforation, sock or wrap, trench width, trench depth, backfill, color, line style, map width, or notes) and at least one drain line uses the template. If some lines could not be updated, the prompt stays open with the count and a Try again button. Editing templates and updating mapped drain lines is available to owners, management, and tech staff, on the web app only.

Then you’re ready to map

With your areas, objects, and templates in place, you can add your objects to the map and draw your drain lines.