Before Configuring the MapApp

Complete the following prerequisite tasks before configuring the Map app.

• Set up accounts with the various map providers to access data from their servers.

  See Configure Map Sources for a list of map sources supported by the Map app. Each map vendor includes a unique set of properties that must be configured in the Map app.

• Create user credentials if your map providers require an API key or a specific user account to access their data.

  See Create User Credentials for instructions to authenticate users by OS based security credentials.

• Create a local map server to store geographic data from the various supported map vendors

  See Set Up a Map Server for an example of setting up and using an open source map server to store your map data.

• Create a set of graphics to show the location of your assets on a map.

  Design graphics large enough to be viewed easily at different map layers yet small enough not to overlap other graphics in the same layer. If you want, configure the graphic to show the current alarm state of some process variable occurring at the geographic asset.