Configuring Business Maps

Business maps contain information (data) relating to the activities or business of your organization. One or more business maps are overlaid onto a base map to gain context. For example, you could overlay a business map that shows the locations of schools on top of a business map.

To configure a business map, follow the steps given below:

  1. Click the Manage Layers button under the Basic Properties.
    The Manage Layers panel opens.
  2. In the Manage Layers panel, select the layer category from drop-down list. You can select multiple layers.
    Note: You can add Spectrum Spatial Maps, Layers and Tiles.
  3. In the Search box, look for the layers you want to add to the business map.
  4. Select the layers from the list. You can select multiple layers.
  5. Once you have added the map layers, close the Manage Layer dialog box by clicking in the Close button.

    A business map has following properties:

    Table 1. Business Map Properties
    Properties Description
    Basic Properties Displays the basic properties of business map.
    Click to rearrange the layers.
    Click to expand or collapse the layers.
    > Enable Map Information

    Enables the user to view map information and callout in the Spectrum Spatial Analyst application.

    Note: If you disable the Map Information option, it will also disable the callout, query and thematics feature on the map.
    > Search Width in px

    The width (in pixels) of map information search. This value will be used when a user clicks on the map in Spectrum Spatial Analyst to display a map information for the features underneath the mouse pointer.

    The search width represents the side length of a square buffer that is created around the mouse pointer location when performing the underlying feature search. This is particularly important when searching for point features, because it would be impossible to exactly hit the point coordinates with the mouse pointer. Also, since points are typically represented by 2-dimensional icons, a search width that coincides with the maximum diameter of the icon makes it possible to click anywhere on the icon and still get the expected result back. The Map information Search width will also be used by Multi-select functionality available from Map Legend Panel.
    > Max. Cache Time in seconds Specify the maximum number of seconds to cache a map. By default, it is 3600 seconds.
    Copyright

    The copyright notice for the map. The copyright notice appears in Spectrum Spatial Analyst only if the corresponding map is visible.
    Template

    The Template Mapping tab allows you to associate map information callout and feature edit/insert validation templates with the tables present in the map project.
    > Info Template

    Select the map information templates from the drop-down list. It lists all the templates present in following directory - customerconfigurations\analyst\theme\infotemplates
    > Feature Edit Template

    Select the feature edit templates from the drop-down list. The drop-down lists all the templates present in the Feature Edit Template customerconfigurations\analyst\theme\featureEditTemplates directory.
    FMN

    The Find My Nearest (FMN) tab enables you to modify a find my nearest configuration by changing the map marker, results icon, friendly name and callout template for each table.
    > Enable FMN Click to enable the FMN on the selected layer.
    > Map Marker
    Click on the Map Marker icon to select Font and custom symbol. By default, SSA supports Custom Symbols, Custom Symbols Pin Point, and Custom Symbols Civic England.
    Note: FMN custom icon supports png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, and .gif.

    It is also possible to add your own custom symbols to Spectrum. These will be shown in symbol picker dialog as “Uploaded Symbols”. For more information, refer to Custom Symbols.

    Click on the symbol of your choice and click Select button.

    > FMN Name You can enter friendly name for FMN.
    Query The Query tab allows you to enables the user to display data for the table that is selected.
    > Enable Query Enables the user to query on the selected table.
    > Enable CSV Export Enables the user to export query results to a csv file on Spectrum Spatial Analyst.
    Databinds

    The Data Binds tab allows you to assign multiple data bind to a map layer on the Spectrum Spatial Analyst web application.

    Select the data bind(s) that you want to display in Spectrum Spatial Analyst. It lists all the data bindings corresponding to the table that you have created in Properties tab > Data Binding page in Spatial Manager.
    Removes the business map layer from the list.
  6. Click the Save button to save the change to the map project.