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Turn layers on and off

Who can do this

Anyone who can read the project Every plan.

Open in GISweaver

Hide the layers you do not need so the rest of the survey is easier to read; only your own view changes, never anyone else's map or the survey.

  1. With a project open on the map, select Layers in the rail on the left (on a phone, the Layers tab). The panel lists the survey's layers.

  2. Tick a layer to show it, or untick it to hide it. Each row shows how the layer is drawn (a filled square for areas such as parcels, a line for lines such as road centre lines, the marker for points such as benchmarks) and, after its name, how many features it holds, as in Parcels · 6.

    The Layers panel, with three survey layers ticked, each row showing how its layer is drawn and its feature count, and the details button at the end of each row. The Parcels row is open, showing Zoom to layer, Isolate and an Opacity slider.The Layers panel, with three survey layers ticked, each row showing how its layer is drawn and its feature count, and the details button at the end of each row. The Parcels row is open, showing Zoom to layer, Isolate and an Opacity slider. Dark theme.

What happens next

The map shows only the ticked layers. GISweaver remembers your choice for you, in this project and release.

If something goes wrong

  • A layer you ticked does not appear: it may lie outside the part of the map you are looking at. Open its details and select Zoom to layer.

  • The status line at the foot of the map says 1 layer outside EPSG:…, or 2 layers outside EPSG:…. A layer drawn from a different coordinate system is shown moved onto the project's grid. Select Fit survey to see all layers.

    The status line at the foot of the map saying 3 layers are outside EPSG:32644, and to use Fit survey to find them.The status line at the foot of the map saying 3 layers are outside EPSG:32644, and to use Fit survey to find them. Dark theme.

    The status line at the foot of the map on a phone, after turning to the coordinates face, saying 3 layers are outside EPSG:32644, and to use Fit survey to find them.The status line at the foot of the map on a phone, after turning to the coordinates face, saying 3 layers are outside EPSG:32644, and to use Fit survey to find them. Dark theme. - The status line at the foot of the map says 1 layer did not draw completely, and the Layers panel says 1 layer is not showing everything. The layer's features did not arrive, for example because the connection went quiet. Panning or zooming the map asks again by itself; select Retry on the status line to ask again at once. If it keeps failing, see The status line says a layer did not draw completely. - The layers no longer look as they were delivered: open Layer preferences (the ⋯ at the top of the panel) and select Reset layer preferences. This puts back the layers' visibility and drawing as the delivery set them, for you only.

Details

The controls in a layer's details

Each control is listed in the map reference.

The feature count appears once the layer's features have loaded; a layer that has not loaded yet shows its name alone.

Point clouds

A point cloud is drawn only in 3D. In the flat map its row says so, with View in 3D: see Look at a point cloud in 3D.

The product words on this page are explained in the glossary.

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