Screen elements
The screen is divided in central part (map) and sidebars and toolbars.
Sidebars
Sidebars are long ribbons, stretching usually from one end of screen to the other. There are four sidebars in the app, numbered as shown in the image above:
- The leftmost sidebar contains top-level app controls you can choose between two active modes here - Sandbox and Collection/farm mode - by clicking on one of their respective buttons in the top. At the bottom there are controls to open profile and app settings.
- The left sidebar, next to previous sidebar, contains various controls and information depending on the tool and mode chosen.
- The right sidebar contains the context of certain map tools:
- When opened by clicking on the Search Places button in the toolbar (the top button), it contains a geographical search input and the list of previous place searches.
- When opened by clicking on the Select Raster Layer button in the toolbar (third from the top), it contains the list of available layers to choose from, as well as a layer search input.
- The bottom bar contains the map legend, info about mouse position and the active layer as well as a timeline which serves to select the timestamp of the currently active map layer. When a certain geometry is chosen on the map, charts with statistics also appear here.
Toolbar
There is only one toolbar in the app, labeled in the image above with 5, situated on top right part of the map. The bar contains various map tools, from top to bottom:
- Geographical search
- Basemap selection
- Data layer selection
- Timeline toggle
- Layer comparison tool
- Data layer opacity
- Boundaries layer opacity
- Map labels opacity
- Zoom in
- Zoom out
- Map view reset (zooms out to continental extent)
- Map view fit to visible geometry (farm or sandbox geometries)
- Map rotate tool
- Legend auto-scale toggle
Info box
When you first open the app, an info box will appear in the top left corner of the map (labeled with 6), briefly explaining functionality in the current context. The info box can be closed, but can be opened again through the settings page.