Map tools and configuration

In this section, we are going to explore all tools provided on the Map View page. From the list of available maps, you can select the map you are interested in and click View map, the map will look like this.

The Map View

The Map View (based on MapStore) provides the following tools:

• the Table of Contents (TOC) to manage the map contents;

• the Basemap Switcher to change the basemap (see the next paragraphs);

• the Search Bar to search by location, name and coordinates (see the paragraph below);

• the Other Menu Tools which contains the link to the datasets Catalog;

• the Sidebar which contains, by default, the link to the Print tool and to the Measure tool;

• the Navigation Bar and its tools such as the Zoom tools, the 3D Navigation tool and the Get Features Info tool;

• the Footer Tools to manage the scale of the map, to track the mouse coordinates and change the CRS (Coordinates Reference System).

A map can be configured to use a custom Map Viewer, with which the lsit of tools available in the map can be customized.

Search Bar

The Search Bar of the map viewer allows you to find point of interests (POIs), streets or locations by name.

Lets type the name of some place then select the first record.

The Search Bar

The map will automatically re-center on that area delimiting it by a polygon in the case of an area, by a line in the case of a linear shape (e.g. streets, streams) and by a marker in the case of a point.

Result of a Search

Navigation bar

The Map Viewer makes also available the Navigation bar. It is a navigation panel containing various tools that help you to explore the map such as tools for zooming, changing the extent and querying objects on the map.

By default the Navigation bar shows you the zooming buttons , and , other options can be explored by clicking on which expands/collapses the toolbar.|

The Default Navigation bar

The Expanded Navigation bar

The Navigation bar contains the following tools:

• The Query Objects on map allows you to get feature information through the button. It allows you to retrieve information about the features of some datasets by clicking them directly on the map.

  

  Querying Objects on map

  When clicking on map a new panel opens. That panel will show you all the information about the clicked features for each active loaded dataset.

• You can Zoom To Max Extent by clicking .

Basemap Switcher

By default, GeoNode allows to enrich maps with many world backgrounds. You can open available backgrounds by clicking on the map tile below:

• OpenStreetMap

• OpenTopoMap

• Sentinel-2-cloudless

The Basemap Switcher Tool

You can also decide to have an Empty Background.

Switching the Basemap

Footer Tools

At the bottom of the map, the Footer shows you the Scale of the map and allows you to change it.

The Map Scale

The button allows you to see the pointer Coordinates and to change the Coordinates Reference System (CRS), WGS 84 by default.

The Pointer Coordinates and the CRS