Get powerful insights about your project’s performance, at a glance.

Understand if your project is performing with instant data read-outs from the Urban tab. The Urban Tab shows a quick analysis of the geometry on the map, based on inputs from Usages and Analytics.

The Urban Tab

The Urban Tab gives a quick report of standard real estate metrics, like GBA, FAR/FSR, and Unit Counts.

The values in the Urban Tab update dynamically as you draw.

Urban only counts what is visible. If Features are on an invisible drawing layer, they will not show in Urban.

Access the Urban Tab

The Urban Tab is Accessed from the right-hand palette.

The urban tab is always included at project startup.

It is also accessible in ‣

User Interface Overview

1. Switch whether areas are grouped by Usage, Building, or Group
2. Select which areas to view - Gross Building, Gross Floor, or Net Rentable/Saleable
3. Display of areas, grouped as selected in step 1
4. Breakdown of Site coverage, and FAR/FSR
5. Urban metrics
6. Parking metrics
7. Breakdown of residential units, if applicable
8. Breakdown of density metrics, if applicable

<aside> 👈 Note: This message displays in the Urban Tab before any geometry is added to the canvas. Draw something to review the Urban calculations!

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What features are used for calculations:

• The feature's drawing layer must be visible. It doesn't matter if the layer is semi-transparent. It will be counted as long as it is at all visible.

• If the feature was created by or assigned to a 3rd party app, it will be ignored.

  IE - GLTF imports or dxf imports will be ignored until converted into Giraffe geometry with a usage applied.

  <aside> 💡 Learn how to quickly convert raw data into Giraffe geometry in Use Map features to Create Geometry and Query Information

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Calculating Areas

Areas are calculated for all building features, including basements.

• Gross area (GBA) : The feature's area multiplied by the number of levels. This includes the area of the roof where:
  • parkingType is "multi-deck"
  • rooftopParking is true
• Net area (GFA): Gross area * efficiency
• Saleable/Rentable area (NSA / NRA): Gross area * sellEfficiency

The number of levels , parkingType and rooftopParking are typically set on the feature itself. efficiency and sellEfficiency are usually inherited from the usage, but they can be overridden by setting them on the feature as well.

Building Area Bar-chart

The areas of all the buildings (whose layers are visible) in the project are aggregated in a bar-chart. By default, GBA values are grouped by usage. Click on GFA or NSA to see these values in the chart and change what groups are shown in the chart using the dropdown on the top right.

Site Area Breakdown