Draw a Turf on the Map

A turf is an area you've selected on the map. It's the starting point for almost everything else: contacts come from turfs, and lists are cut out of turfs.

Go to Turfs and choose Create Turf. You have two ways to select an area.

Draw

Click points on the map to trace the boundary of the area you want, then close the shape. Use this for a district, a precinct, a subdivision, or any boundary you can see and follow.

Take your time on the first one. The shape you draw is exactly the area you'll get contacts from, so it's worth matching your real district lines rather than approximating them.

Isochrone

An isochrone is an area defined by travel time instead of a boundary. Click a point on the map, then set:

• Transport. Walking, Driving, or Cycling.

• How far in minutes. How long someone travels from that point.

cicada.run builds the area a person could actually reach in that time along real streets, not a circle drawn around the pin. A fifteen-minute walk from a church parking lot is a realistic Saturday morning of doors. A twenty-minute drive from your office is a realistic call-time radius.

After the turf exists

Open a turf and you'll see how many contacts it already holds and how many more are available to discover inside it. From there you can:

• Discover More Contacts. Pull the voters inside the boundary into your campaign.

• Create List. Cut the turf into lists for your callers and canvassers.

• Assign Tags. Label everyone in the turf at once.

A note on device

Turf drawing is desktop only. The Turfs section doesn't appear in the navigation on a phone.