Map Panel

The Map panel provides a geospatial view of an object's location.

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Map panels display objects having a discrete location, such as a meter, as a single point on the map, which is indicated by a pin; for types that have an area or territory, the map displays the location as a shaded polygon.

Map panel displaying a sinle meter point

When an object is selected, opening the map panel will center the object in the map.

The two map panel views: A single, red pinpointed geographic location, and a shaded polygon for the region covered by the territory or area.

Location-Associated Types

Only object types with location attributes have Map panels. Objects with location attributes include Bill Cycle, Feeder, Meters and Service Points, Rates, Routes, Transformers, and Zip Codes.

Map Panel Navigation

The following functionality is available in map view:

Neighboring Electric Meter: Displays nearby meters highlighted with blue flags.
Help: Launches online help in a separate window.
Switch to Street/Switch to Satellite: Toggles between satellite image and street map views of the location.
Grid View button: Displays attribute information about the selected asset in a table format.

In the base product environment, the Map Panel grid view includes the following columns:

Fact Name: Fact Name of the row data fact. For example, County is the fact name of an Address fact category. The Date value may be a default date for facts in the system (for example, year 2001) or may be a date related to the fact. For example, if a meter is installed after the default date, the installation date fact will be updated.
Value: Provides the Value for the fact listed in a row.

To switch back to the map view from the grid view, click the chart view icon.

Note: The grid view data table columns are configurable.

Maps Information Pop-Up

When you click or hover over a selected point, a pop-up will appear with information about the point. The information that appears on the pop-up depends on configuration for each type. There is no formal limit to the number of facts that can appear within the pop-up. The only constraint, however, is the height of the Maps panel where excessive facts could drop off the panel due to the available space.

Map Panel Options by Type

Map panels behave similarly for object types, but there are differences due to the nature of the data.

Meter Data

The Map panel for meters opens with the meter centered in the map. Neighboring meters can be added to the meter view.

To see neighboring meters, click the Neighboring Electric Meter checkbox.

Note: The map will only show geopoint data of meters for which there is data available. For example, if there are five meters in an area but only data available for two of them, the filter results will list all five meters, but only the two results with available data will appear in the Map panel.

The map panel view of meter data displaying a single, red pinpointed meter surrounded by blue neighboring meter pinpoints

Line Transformer Data

Line Transformer data is displayed as a polygon covering the supplied area. When you select a line transformer, you will see a point on the map that represents it.

Map view of line transformer data displayed as a red polygone covering the supplied area of the map

Do one or more of the following to manipulate the display:

To view the child meters connected to the transformer, click the Neighboring Electric Meter checkbox. The map shows only the connected meters. It does not show meters that are within the boundary of the line transformer, but not connected to it.
To view the adjacent transformer polygon, click the Neighboring Line Transformer checkbox.
To view adjacent transformer polygons color-coded by phase, click the line Transformer Phase Info checkbox.
Note: Phase coloring is only available in the Distribution Planning and Operations module.