Placepoint Fusion user documentation

Placepoint collects, contextualises and quality-assures data from public and private sources in one shared workspace for maps, analysis and portfolio management.

Here you will find how every surface in the left menu works: map layers, tags, datasets and analysis, how the property panel is built up, and step by step how you solve common tasks under use cases. This documentation covers app.placepoint.no.

How much data we have, where it comes from and how often it is updated is on Placepoint in numbers and Data and sources. We cover Swedish property through Combify.

What you will find here

• Feature documentation for every surface in the left menu: Map layers, Tags, Datasets, Analysis, Search and Property and buildings.
• Examples and recipes with screenshots of common workflows: find a property, enable map layers, check risk, use daylight analysis in 3D.
• Glossary with more than 350 Norwegian terms in planning and building law, matrikkel, property management and maps (shared with v1).
• Data and sources, which public registers and commercial datasets Placepoint uses (shared with v1).

Who this is for

The documentation is aimed at the same groups as placepoint.no/kunder:

• Banking and credit teams that assess collateral, loan applications and portfolio exposure, and want legal, financial and climate-related risk together on the same property.
• Investors who build and monitor portfolios, screen acquisition opportunities and run value and yield calculations.
• Developers who assess sites, calculate UFA and BYA against zoning plans and use 3D analysis for volume studies.
• Insurance providers that assess exposure to flooding, quick clay and other natural hazards on a single property and across a portfolio.
• Brokers who search for properties, tenants and buyers, and look up ownership structure, transactions and area figures.
• Advisers (lawyers, valuers, analysts) who prepare decision material and pull matrikkel, zoning and company data without jumping between registers.
• Architects who read zoning, check height restrictions and run sight line, sun and shadow analyses in 3D.
• Public sector bodies (municipalities, counties and state agencies) that coordinate planning, property and building cases across map data, matrikkel and public access registers.

Start here

Page	What you get
About Placepoint Fusion	What Placepoint Fusion is and who it is for
Getting started	Log in and find your way around
Get started in ten minutes	Your first session in a fixed order: search, panel, one map layer, tag
Where do I find…?	From feature to button, in one table
Interface overview	Left menu, map buttons, right tool rail and property panel
Navigation and icons	Reference for the icons and buttons in the interface

Contents

• Use cases
• Search, Map layers, Tags, Datasets
• Analysis
• Property and buildings
• Settings and help

The outline follows the left menu in app.placepoint.no from top to bottom.

Use cases

Workflows with screenshots.

Page	Description
Use cases, overview	Main page for all workflows
How to use map layers	The catalogue, the search, the legend, sub-layers and base maps
Understand a property and its context	The first lookup on a single property, tab by tab in the property panel
Find properties and opportunities	From search to shortlist: the three entry points in the search field, the ownership chain, the candidate map layers and Tags
Feasibility study	The architect's checklist before the first sketch, point by point in the map, with sun and shadow in 3D
Demographic analysis	Catchment area, demographics map layers and a report for one point
Assess risk	Flooding, ground conditions, building cases, ownership chain and value on one property
Analyse value and potential	Transactions, zoning, 3D volume and shadow in one workspace
Manage and monitor a portfolio	Owned properties, ownership share, transactions, tenants and public cases for one portfolio

Search

Page	Description
Search	Global search field: property, address, company, tag

Map layers

Page	Description
Map layers, overview	Around 320 main map layers in 18 categories, with around 2,500 sub-layers in total: zoning, demographics, natural hazards, infrastructure and more

Per-category pages are listed in the sidebar under Map layer. Examples:

Category	Contents
Property	Matrikkel, zoning plans, cultural heritage, price statistics
Buildings	Building age, energy performance certificates, environmental certifications
Demographics	Population, income, age composition
Risk	Landslides, flooding, quick clay, radon
Business	Groceries, retail chains, business data
Geology	Bedrock, superficial deposits, groundwater

Tags

Page	Description
Tags	Tag properties for organising and filtering

Datasets

Page	Description
Datasets	Import and publish your own datasets

Analysis

Page	Description
Analysis	Ten market analyses from the Analyze menu (home sales, listings, rentals, new builds, plots, business, time on market, area score), Travel distance and geometric 3D tools (measurements, daylight, shadow, elevation profile, sight line, view field) in the right tool rail

Property and buildings

Panels that open when you click a property or a building in the map.

Page	Description
The property panel	Tabs and data for a selected property
Buildings	Building data from the Matrikkelen
Case access	Municipal building cases directly from the map
Risk	Climate risk and ground conditions per property

Settings and help

Page	Description
Settings	User and system settings
Navigation and icons	Reference for the icons and buttons