Your sign IDs and colours on the plan.
A plotted map now does two jobs. Install view shows sign numbers and install status for the crew. Design view puts your own Sign IDs on every pin as a label tag, colours pins by sign type, and exports a plan you can hand to a client — from the same map, with no second list to maintain.
One map, two audiences.
Installers need to find a sign and mark it done. Designers and clients need the plan with their IDs and colours on it. Until now those were two documents.
The plan lives somewhere else
The design drawing is made in one tool, then every sign is typed into another to run the install. Two lists, one job, and they drift.
Wrong IDs on the pins
Your schedule says N21Aw-1. The install map says sign 47. Nobody on site can match the two without a lookup table.
Status colours mean nothing to a client
Pending, in progress, installed — useful for the crew, noise for the person signing off the design.
Install view for the crew. Design view for everyone else.
One toggle in the map toolbar. Install view is exactly what it was: sign numbers on pins, colours by install status, what your contractors see in the field app. Design view swaps in label tags, sign-type colours and a legend.
The IDs from your schedule, not ours
Every sign has an optional Sign ID for the identifier you already use — N21Aw-1, ID10w-7, whatever the project calls them. Where several signs share an ID, Signplanr numbers each instance for you: N21Aw-1_1, N21Aw-1_2.
The ID shows in the signs list, in search, on the sign page and in the map pin. A Sign ID column round-trips through CSV import and export, so a spreadsheet schedule comes in with its IDs intact.
Your colours, your labels, placed for you
Set a Design view pin colour per sign type in your library — wayfinding navy, identification orange — and override it for a single event when you need to. Leave a type on automatic and it gets a palette colour.
Choose what the tag says per event: the sign name, the sign number or the Sign ID. Tags lay themselves out on the side the sign faces and avoid each other; drag one to tidy it and the position is saved with the sign.
Export the pack
Export this map as PDF opens the export dialog already set to the view you are looking at. A Design export is a complete pack: a cover page, the plan with your labels and colours, a colour key, and a schedule sorted by Sign ID. Pin size matches the editor, or switch to print-readable pins for very large plans. Need a picture instead? Export current view as image saves a PNG of the viewport.
The details
Install | Design toggle in the map toolbar. Remembered per map on your device; each event can set a default view.
Sign ID on every sign. Signs sharing an ID are numbered as instances automatically — N21Aw-1_1, N21Aw-1_2.
A Sign ID column round-trips through CSV import and export, so a schedule comes in and goes out intact.
Design view pin colour per sign type in your library, a per-event override, and an automatic palette when unset.
Labels place themselves on the side the sign faces and avoid each other. Drag to tidy; reset from the pin menu.
Legend in the corner lists the sign types on the map with counts. Collapses to a pill when you want the plan to yourself.
Design Map PDF: cover, the plan with labels and colours, a colour key, and a schedule sorted by Sign ID.
Export current view as image — a PNG of the viewport for a deck, an email or a chat message.
Field app label: show contractors Sign IDs instead of sign numbers, while their colours stay on install status.
Availability
Design view, Sign IDs and pin colours are available on every plan, including Free. The Design Map PDF pack uses PDF export, which is included from Starter. Map image export (PNG) is on every plan.
Step-by-step: Design view in the Help Centre.
One map, from design to install
Plot the signs once. Hand the client the design plan, hand the crew the install map, and keep both current from the same place.