Both Appraise-It Street Maps and Appraise-It Flood Maps allow you to enter your own GPS coordinates for addresses. This can be useful for newer addresses that have not yet been added to the geolocation databases used by our services, or for rural areas where precise GPS coordinates are unknown. You can use a handheld GPS device on-site when performing your inspection to record coordinates, or use a website like iTouchMap to attempt a lookup of your addresses' GPS coordinates.
Note that Street Maps and Flood Maps use different geolocation services. If your subject address is accurate in Street Maps but inaccurate in Flood Maps, you can use the coordinates provided by Street Maps in Flood Maps. To do so:
1. With your report open in Appraise-It, go to Services ⇨ Appraise-It Street Maps.
2. Verify the subject marker is located correctly (adjusting if necessary), then click back to the Addresses tab.
3. Make a note of the subject's latitude and longitude coordinates, and use them in step 3 of the instructions below. You can also open Flood Maps and switch between Flood and Street Maps to copy and paste the coordinates. To copy and paste each coordinate, select the coordinate in the Street Maps display, tap "CTRL+C" on your keyboard or right-click and select Copy, then click in the corresponding field in Flood Maps' GPS entry fields and tap "CTRL+V" or right-click and select Paste.
Manually Entering Coordinates in Flood Maps
1. With your report open in Appraise-It, go to Services ⇨ Appraise-It Flood Maps.
2. Check the Use coordinates box underneath the subject address to access the input area for your own GPS coordinates.
3. Enter your latitude and longitude coordinates in either decimal format. (If your coordinates are in degrees-minutes-seconds format, use a converter such as this one to generate coordinates in decimal format.)
4. Click Next, and Flood Maps will retrieve your map based on the coordinates you specified.
Manually Entering Coordinates in Street Maps
1. With your report open in Appraise-It, go to Services ⇨ Appraise-It Street Maps.
2. In the grid on the Addresses tab, double-click in the appropriate Latitude or Longitude fields for the addresses you wish to manually geocode, and enter the coordinate in decimal format. (If your coordinates are in degrees-minutes-seconds format, use a converter such as this one to generate coordinates in decimal format.)
3. When you have specified all necessary coordinates, click Get Map, and Street Maps will generate your map based on the coordinates you specified. Any Latitude/Longitude fields left blank will be filled in by Street Maps's geocoding database.
