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Every layer in one list

· 3 min read
Massimo Di Stefano
Massimo Di Stefano
FastGIS author

The desktop planner's Layers on the map widget is now the one list of everything the map can show. It has every layer the rider app has, under the same names and in the same order, each with its legend. Your own layers can be styled the way a desktop GIS styles them, and the order of the list is the order the map draws them in. Your drawings and measurements are layers too.

The app's layers, with their legends​

The list's second group is the rider app's layer list: speed cameras, gas stations, beaches, slope shading, curvature, dirt passages, live traffic, advisory zones, draft areas and rider reports. Then come the two the desktop has on its own, the TET network and riders live. A layer that is on shows its legend under its row:

  • the curvature ramp from straight to hairpins;
  • the slope ramp from 5 % to 45 %;
  • the dirt grades;
  • live traffic by severity;
  • the advisory zones by tier;
  • the four kinds of rider report.

Gas stations and beaches are new on the desktop. They follow the centre of the map, within 30 km. The dirt passages have joined the Layers toolbar beside curvature, slope, live traffic, TET and live, and the ▾ next to their chip opens their profile, view and filters in their row of the list. Slope, curvature and the TET network get an opacity slider. Speed cameras moved here from Settings. They still ask first: ticking them shows the wording that puts the legal check on you, and only the button under it turns them on.

Your layers, styled and in order​

The first group holds what you put on the map: the route, the plan's GPX files, imported tracks and library items shown for comparison. Each has its own style:

  • colour, width and opacity;
  • a line pattern: solid, dashed, dotted or dash-dot (the rider app's four);
  • the fill of an area;
  • for points, a symbol (circle, square, triangle, diamond, star or pin) and a size.

The top row is drawn on top. Drag a row by its grip, or pick the grip up with Enter and move it with the arrow keys. A project keeps the styles and the order.

Drawings and measurements are layers​

What you draw with the vector editor now goes into a drawing layer. You name it, style it, hide it and draw into it from its row. + Drawing layer starts a new one, and a feature moves between layers from its card, keeping its fields. Your measurements are a layer as well, with an eye and a style of their own.

At the bottom of the list sits the basemap. On our own basemap you choose day or night, how much nature detail it draws, and how many food and lodging badges a town shows. Identify, on that basemap, now also says what land a point is on: a forest and its kind, a meadow, a wetland, a protected area. That line is information, never a permission to ride or camp there.

All of it is in the desktop guide.