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title: "Map Tools"
slug: "map-tools"
updated: 2026-07-29T22:14:53Z
published: 2026-07-29T22:14:53Z
canonical: "docs.cotality.com/map-tools"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cotality.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Map Tools

### Map Tools

        
            

The Realist Map Tools suite provides advanced spatial customization layers, allowing you to visually audit critical property history, track local market trends, and isolate targeted geographical areas using custom search shapes.

        

        

            

                
                    
                        

**Video Tutorial Overview**

                    
                    
                        

This comprehensive video walkthrough guides you through using the core geographic overlays and spatial calculation utilities built into the map viewport:

                        

- **Spatial Boundaries & Drawings:** Master custom shape drawing tools to execute radius searches and overlay regional, neighborhood, or municipal boundary borders.
- **Property & Sales Data Layers:** Toggle critical data visualization markers covering distressed property metrics, tax sales, automated valuation models (AVMs), structural property characteristics, and real-time MLS status flags.
- **Market Trends & Metrics:** Review localized neighborhood market trends and plot regional points of interest (schools, transit hubs, banks, and commerce) to scale.
- **Navigation & Mapping Utilities:** Learn how to calculate point-to-point driving directions, search exact coordinates with "Find on Map," use measurement calculators, and save custom text annotations right on your map canvas workspace.

                        
                            
                                
                                

Click [here](/docs/map-tools#) to view the complete Map Tools video tutorial in the media panel.

                            
                            [Detailed walkthrough demonstrating map shape drawing tools, boundary layers, spatial data overlays, and point of interest tracking utilities.](https://www.youtube.com/embed/9KGhcb_a3to)