We are investigating the possibilities for automatically generating shapes on a visio world map, to display the service status of that region based on alarm bubbling up.
However, rather than designing the regions on the map, this needs to be dynamically populated, and the shapes format also dynamically designed based on polygons defined in .kml files available in the dataminer documents folder.
Would there be a way of dataminer supporting this use case?
Elvio, it's an interesting use-case.
As Ben suggests, there can be many scenarios to explore:
-indeed when using .kml maybe you're also entitled to the usage of Google Maps in your system;
-positioning shapes dynamically is supported;
-for the overall visio look, if a VISIO map is required, you could perhaps rely on certain shape labels to make the objects dynamically added on the view only, in case of alarms;
- changing the format of the shape on the go would require some research, if nothing else to establish the general look and feel of the UI.
I haven't played much with this but I understand kml is engineered to look great on maps for Earth-Browsers - if using a visio map, the result can become quite different
HTH,
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I think the assumption is fair and legitimate in the context of satellite beams (;
I took an example from the generic KML documentation on Google’s side:
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut
I understand that Google’s documentation was the starting point for what was standardised later on in OGC:
https://www.ogc.org/standards/kml/
Thanks for your input Alberto – And indeed .klm can be a lot, but I (maybe wrongly) assumed that the .klm’s in this case were satellite footprints (showing a flat area where satellite beams go on the surface of the globe), and if that’s the case, those could be converted in shapes that can be drawn with the Path Markup capability of Visual Overview.