Geolayers

Switch geolayers on or of on a map

All maps are by default (base layer) shown with a streetview. If you prefer the satellite view on your maps, you can change this as following: Go to a map → click on the layer button that you find in the lower left corner of the map.

To visualize other geolayers, hover over the layer buttonThe following options window appears:

Here you can select which of the default geolayers you want to visualize:

• Show or hide geozone(s)
• Show or hide infrastructure
• Show or hide network locations

By selecting the More button you can also choose to show additional geolayers on the map. When you click on More a window will open where other geolayers that are available to your organization appears (if available):

The coverage maps of the communication network are also provided as geolayer. Following types of coverage maps are shown:

• Roaming agreement coverage maps of Nb-IoT communication network provider(s): this map is interesting if you use trackers communicating over the Nb-IoT network (TRACK 11xx). To know if your trackers will be able to send their location to the Sensolus platform it should travel within an area with network coverage. The Nb-IoT network providers hand over a coverage map to Sensolus which we show as a geolayer.
  Note: Nb-IoT coverage is not stable yet. It is not world-wide but is still growing over time, so this map will change over time. Network providers are also always optimistic when showing the covered areas, therefore it is not a 100% guarantee when a network provider shows the area as covered. What you can be sure about is that if they show it as non-covered area, it will for sure not be covered (at that moment in time).

  Note: Vodafone also provides its own Network status checker site.
• Live coverage maps: this map is generated by Sensolus itself. By analyzing the data of the trackers we create our own coverage map. From the moment a tracker sends one location point in live mode (not in resend mode guaranteed by our data integrity algorithm) we define the area as covered (shown in green). As long as the data of the trackers arrives later then 30 minutes after being send (= not live) we show the area in red (not covered).
  Note: Live coverage maps are updated every 24 hours.
• Sigfox coverage map: this is the coverage maps of the communication technology provider Sigfox. This map is interesting if you use trackers communicating over the Sigfox network (TRACK 10xx).

Image based geolayers

This type of geolayers allows to show an image in overlay on a map. They are typically used for showing additional static information, such as floor plans, on the asset map.

Tile based geolayers

Tile based geolayers are typically used for adding dynamic information, such as railways, to the asset map (Wikipedia: tile based overlays).

Managing geolayers

Geolayers can be managed by navigating to Admin > Location > Geolayers .

The geolayer admin entry page has 2 different views that can be toggled by clicking on the view switch button.

The map view shows all created geolayers on the map on the right while the summary of all visible geolayers is listed on the left. Next to each geolayer in the list you find actions to edit or delete the geolayer.

The list view shows all created geolayers in a list. The columns specify additional info like the type of the geolayer. In the action column you can edit or delete the geolayer.

On the top right of both views you find the button to add a geolayer.