Layers
What are layers?
Items can have geometry that describes their location and shape. This can be projected onto a basemap of your choice, enabling you to visualise physical assets, activities, service areas and other things in a geographical context.
Each set of item geometries is known as a layer. You can create any number of layers and easily turn them on or off as needed, making it possible to view multiple datasets alongside each other on the map.
Layer styles
Each layer consists of one or more layer styles. Each style uses an AQS query to fetch a set of qualifying items (e.g. all Street Lights with an unresolved defect) and display them on the map.
You can define the colour, icon and query of each layer style, along with the visualisation type (how the items are presented on the map).
Layer styles can be enabled individually. Turning the layer on or off will show/hide its enabled layer styles.
Layer data can be outputted from the API to be consumed by developers and viewed elsewhere (see the Developer Docs).
Learn more
To learn more, see Layers and Visualisation in Asset Classic.