Customizing Map Display

Control default map type and "clutter" of labels

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Written by Jon Kern
Updated over a week ago

Some of our clients are in extremely rural areas with sparse map elements (e.g., Saskatchewan, Canada), and others are within extremely dense urban settings (e.g., Oak Park, IL, USA). These can result in very different experiences regarding Google Maps!
As an Org Admin, you can control the following Google map settings:

Map Type

Google Map Type has the following choices:

  • Roadmap

  • Satellite

  • Hybrid

  • Terrain

The map type settings can be controlled for:

  • The view of all preplans

  • The view for an individual preplan or structure

By way of demonstrating the effect of different settings, here is the preplans map view with the "hybrid" map type setting (roads plus satellite imagery) showing all Google map labels:

Here is that same view with "roadmap" setting (no imagery) and all labels:

Reduced Label Density

The reduced label setting affects all map views.
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Here is how it looks if you choose to reduce the label display:

And for the Preplan/Structure view it might look like this with terrain map type and reduced labels:

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