Map Views

The Map Views is a MapStore tool useful to set up multiple map views differently configured and switch between them. A navigation functionality is also provided to automatically activate each view one after the other in temporal sequence.

Add new view

Once the user opens a map, the Map Views tools can be opened through the button available in the Side Toolbar.

To create a new simple view the user can simply move the map to the interested area, enable the desired layers in TOC to be displayed in the map and finally click on the button. The view will be created and visible in the Views list by clicking the button.

MapStore allows to customize and edit the new view by opening the Edit panel through the button. Here the user is allowed to:

• Add a text, images, videos or hyperlinks through the Description section. The description is visible during the Views Navigation. Take a look at the following example.

• Capture the view positions through the button or change the longitude, latitude and height of the Camera Position and Center Position (only available for the 3D mode) by using the Position section.

• Modify the duration of the animation and enable/disable the transition effect during the Views Navigation by using the Animation section.

• When in 3D mode, use the Mask section to select a WFS or Vector layer available in TOC to create a mask on all the 3D tiles visible in map. The mask layer need to be added to the map before using this functionality so that it is possible to use the layer features as masking areas: if multiple WFS or Vector layers (with polygonal features) are present in the map, these are used all merged together to represent the final masking areas.

If the user enables the Inverse option, simply the inverse mask is applied using the same layer so that each feature is used to produce an hole on all visible 3D Tiles.

• Enable the translucency of the globe through Globe Translucency section so that it is possible to see layers under the globe's surface.

• Manage layers through the Layer Options section. All the layers listed in the TOC are available in this section. The user can:

• Search for a specific layer using the search tool.

• Enable synchronization of layer and group visibility and opacity with the main TOC by clicking the button.

• Disable synchronization of layer and group visibility and opacity with the main TOC by clicking the button.

• Show all groups and layers present in the TOC by enabling the Show all child nodes through the button.

• Hide all groups and layers present in the TOC by enabling the Hide all child nodes through the button.

• Collapse all groups present in the TOC by enabling the Collapse all child nodes through the button.

• Expand all groups present in the TOC by enabling the Expand all child nodes through the button. Each layer legend is also expanded.

• Tune the layer transparency in map by scrolling the opacity slider.

• Enable or disable visibility synchronization of a specific layer or group with the main TOC by clicking the button to the right of each layer/group.

In 3D mode, using the same logic described above for the Masking option, it is also possible to Clip (not Mask) each 3D Tiles or Terrain layers using a WFS or a vector layer as a clipping source. Furthermore, in this case the user can also choose which layer feature can be used as Clipping feature.

3D Views navigations

Once multiple views are added to the Map Views tool it allows to visualize them in sequence by clicking on the button. Doing that the presentation mode starts and each view is displayed in the Map Viewer, together with its descriptive panel (if configured) on the left side of the screen, for a time depended on the duration previously configured.

The user can also choose to navigate each view manually using the navigation toolbar provided by the tool.