Plan and densify 5G on 3D, not 2D centerlines

5G is a different planning problem. The cells reach only 300 to 500m, and they die the moment a tree line or a building breaks line of sight. A 2D street map shows you where the roads are. It cannot tell you whether a beam clears the rooftop in front of it, or where it lands in the shadow behind a tall block.

That is the gap teams keep falling into: planning on street centerlines and clutter polygons that were good enough for 4G, then discovering the dead zones in the field. At 5G ranges, the surface itself, every roof height, every canopy, every facade, is the thing that decides coverage.

rfMAP does not replace your RF planning tool. It supplies the data that tool was always missing: an authentic, sub-meter 3D surface that your existing planner reads directly. Because the layers are vendor-neutral, your team keeps the planning environment they already trust and simply propagates against real form instead of flat centerlines.

For densification, that is the whole game. Where macro coverage falls into a line-of-sight shadow, the 3D surface shows you the gap, and where a small cell would actually close it, before anyone is dispatched to confirm it on foot.

The macro lobe wraps building geometry and falls into shadow behind the tallest block. The 3D surface shows the gap, and where a small cell closes it, before a single site visit confirms it.