Features in the Map viewer

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In this guide, you will learn how to navigate the map, switch base maps, use the tools available, and work with the markers that show where registrations are placed. The viewer gives you a simple and efficient way to explore your project's area in the browser. The viewer covers the main needs for finding, placing, and following up on registrations and entries in a geographic context.

Basic Navigation

When the Map opens, you start with a top-down view of your workspace's Map area. From here you can pan and zoom freely to explore the map.

How to navigate:

Pan the map by clicking and holding the left mouse button, then dragging in the direction you want to move.
Zoom in and out using the mouse wheel.

Tip: pan and zoom work the same way on touch devices — drag with one finger to pan, pinch to zoom.

Base maps

The base map is the underlying imagery and GIS data drawn beneath your registrations. Different base maps emphasise different things — World Map for extended navigation or Project Area for focused usage. Switching base maps does not affect your registrations; only the underlying map style changes.

How to switch the base map:

Find the base map selector at the top of the map, labelled with the current base map's name (for example "World Map").
Click the selector to open the list of available base maps.
Pick the one you want. The map redraws immediately; your registrations stay in place.

Tools

The map viewer features several tools that you can utilize. Some of these tools might be unavailable in some contexts where the map serves a special usage.

Address search

Use the search field at the top-left of the map viewer to find a specific address, postcode, or place and jump straight to it.

Click in the search field.
Start typing an address, postcode, or place (for example "Drammensveien 1").
Pick a result from the list. The map pans and zooms to that location.

Go to position

Located at the bottom, the "Go to position" button uses your device's location (GPS) to centre the map on where you are right now.

Click the "Go to position" button in the toolbar.
The map centres on your position and shows a marker at your location.

This is useful when you're at a project site and want to orient the map around your real-world position.

Notice that this requires you to share your device location with the Map viewer when you use it but Interaxo never stores your device location. If you decline the location prompt, or your browser doesn't support it, you can still navigate manually with pan, zoom, or the address search.

Measure tool

The measure tool lets you draw line segments on the map and read off the total distance along that line.

Click the measure tool icon in the toolbar.
The map enters measure mode. A hint at the bottom asks you to tap the map to set the start point.
Click the first point. This becomes the start of the line.
Click the next point and repeat.
Click "Finish" when you're done. The line and the readout stay visible on the map in your current sesssion.

To remove a measurement and start again, click "Cancel" while measuring, or click the measure tool icon a second time to exit measure mode.

Tip: the distance shown is measured along the map surface — useful for ballpark layout checks, not for precise survey work. For measurements inside a 3D model, use the Measurement and Multiple Axes tools described here.

Full screen map

The "Full screen" button expands the map to fill the browser window, hiding the surrounding web browser and navigation panels. This gives you more space to work with the map without affecting any settings, selections, or active filters.

Click the "Full screen" button in the toolbar.
The map expands to fill the screen.
Click the button again, or press Escape, to return to the previous view.

Switch to 3D model viewer

The "Switch to 3D model viewer" button swaps the current location viewer from the map to the workspace's 3D model.

Click the "Switch to 3D model viewer" button in the toolbar.
The map view is replaced by the 3D model viewer.
To return to the map, use the matching control in the 3D viewer's interface.

For the model viewer's features, see Features in the 3D Viewer in Interaxo Model.

Geographic filter

The geographic filter is invoked from the toolbar and lets you narrow registrations to a circular area drawn on the map. The full walkthrough — how the radius circle behaves, how to combine the geographic filter with column filters, and how it works across view modes — lives in its own article.

See filtering in the map.

Working with placements

Every registration placed on the map appears as a marker. Markers behave the same way they do in the 3D model viewer — click them to open the entry, group together at low zoom, and split when you zoom in.

Click a placement

One entry at this spot: clicking the marker opens a drawer on the right with a short summary of the entry.
Several entries at the same spot: the drawer shows a list of all entries grouped under that marker. Pick one to open its summary.

Marker clustering at low zoom

When several registrations are close together at a low zoom level, they merge into a single cluster marker with a number badge showing how many entries are in the cluster.

Zoom in to spread cluster markers out into individual markers.
Click a cluster marker to open a drawer listing all the registrations grouped under it.

From the drawer

From the entry summary drawer you can:

Open the detail page for an entry to see all information and edit it.
See related processes, attachments, or comments depending on what the project uses.

Want to learn how to place a registration or entry on the map?

For Interaxo Project, see Working with entries in processes.

For Interaxo Capture, see W3: Working with Documentation and Inspection Forms.

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