Icon Map

Usage & Instructions

This section provides instructions and guidance on how to use the various features of Icon Map. The ambition is to include a video and downloadable example for each scenario.

Background Layers

Contents

• Background layers
• Overlays
• WMS Layers

Background layers

Icon Map allows you to select from a range of map background layers, accessed from the 'Background Layers' formatting settings. Note that Mapbox layers require an API or token that must be pasted into the Mapbox Access Token text box before these layers can be viewed. The examples in the report below show the different layers available.

Please note the OpenStreetMap Tile Usage Policy. A commerical tile service such as Mapbox should be used for production purposes

Available background layers:

Sample report has been removed to the cost of tile hosting.

Overlays

In addition to the background maps, Icon Map supports a number of overlays that appear over your selected background map.

The daylight terminator shows the boundary between daylight and night and is updated on the map every second. If you supply a datetime field in the 'Daylight Date Time' field, the daylight terminator will show for the time in your data, allowing you to view future or historic times.

WMS Layers

Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Icon Map has limited support for WMS, allowing a map layer to be displayed over the base map.

In order to display a WMS layer, it is necessary to specify the URL. Often WMS services are described by a GetCapabilities request. Eg:

http://magosm.magellium.com/geoserver/ows?service=wms&request=GetCapabilities

The URL required provided in the Icon Map settings should not include the request=GetCapabilities part. Eg

http://magosm.magellium.com/geoserver/ows?service=wms&

The layer to be shown on the map must also be provided. This can be found by browsing the GetCapabilities XML and finding the Name tag within the Layer tag.