The main challenge with filling in neighborhoods is adding the addresses.
Adding the buildings is not so bad if the houses are mostly rectangles and only a couple sizes; copy/paste is pretty quick. Labeling other properties is similarly straightforward. However, adding hundreds of unique addresses is prohibitively tedious! I currently have to click on a single house, click on the address field, check the address, enter the address, then repeat for the next house. This is not so bad until it’s repeated 100s (or 1000s) of times.
PLEASE tell me I’m just being foolish and there is an easy way to scroll through multiple selected buildings to enter the same field in each! I’m picturing something like: select all houses, enter first address, HOTKEY TO NEXT HOUSE, enter next address. Not only would it remove several steps, but also remove manual mouse clicks which require diverting attention. If I could do this, I could have a list of addresses and zip through an entire area pretty quickly without losing my place constantly looking back and forth.
That’s basically what I got down to as well. It eliminates the second click and losing one’s place; you click directly from one house to the next rather than clicking back and forth between two parts of the screen. Its good enough and a big improvement over the previous workflow.
I’d imagine that a tool would have to allow a user to first select a set of houses then proceed through the selected group, which is basically a negligible improvement over this (other than grouping the mouse task and the keyboard tasks).
The automatic number advancing is nice but so far isn’t useful in this case. The city is on a grid, so the numbers sometimes advance by 4, sometimes by 6, and sometimes more depending on the exact alignment. There will likely be some streets that follow regular intervals though.