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The Geometry of Allotments
I have been holding off adding my individual allotment plots to PO because of the number of them to add as individual polygons (and all different shapes and sizes!). I realise that creating a new geometry type might be a big deal, and it may be that this
Constraints Checker - Parish Online
As Constraints Checker in Parish Online is limited to road accidents and asset register, is there any other way of being able to extract the table of a layer within a defined area ? I am trying to get the postcodes for a specified area (parish). Ste
Copying styles
This question concerns only X-map I think In the style creation process when I'm setting up a layer there seems to be an option of copying a stylesheet from one layer to another. I find the original and click on it. But when I subsequently look at the
Polygon lables
Is there any way of moving the position of labels in polygons. Labels of points can be moved up and down and sideways using the buttons but nothing seems to happen when I use the displace button with polygons. My problem is twofold 1 One of my
Measuring an object in an annotation
Today I wanted to measure the area of an object (West Sedgemoor actually). So I quickly drew a polygon around it using the Annotate menu. Then I clicked the Measure menu and selected Area and nothing happened. I had then to redraw the area to get the
Ditches
Ditches form an important part of a parish (and other) councils maintenance responsibility, but ownership and the associated responsibility to maintain ditches is not widely understood. At the moment there is no layer in the PO Asset Register group that
Hedges and Hedgerows
While adding assets to the ‘Gates, Walls and Fences’ layer it became evident that in a largely rural parish hedges were analogous to gates, walls and fences. They share the same fundamental characteristics of separating areas of land or delineating boundaries
Can we have asset manager tell us when an inspection is due?
Can we have asset manager tell us when an inspection is due?
Capturing water data
I'm aiming to put together a habitat map for our parish. I'll digitise data from surveys, DEFRA's MAGIC datasets and other sources to delineate woodland, hedgerows, grassland etc. I want to include aquatic habitats such as rivers, streams, rhynes and
Printed Maps contain different detail
I'm trying to print a map for a planning application, and when I'm looking at the "preview" to set up the print (see below), it shows all the street names, river names, etc, but once the print is produced, what shows is inconsistent and incomplete. I've
Upload and save an attachment that applies to the whole layer and not just one element
I have just created a layer that shows the state of all our 'problem' trees. The list has been created by a consultant arborist and they fall into five different categories varying from 'fell' to 'watch' to I have a layer with points in five different
Transfering map layers from one package to another
I have just received an arborists report on the state of our Village trees. It suggests five levels of action from 'fell' to 'no action' for a hundred or so trees. It has come in a report with trees shown on a Google Map pdf export. I now have to manually
Filter tool to be added to Public Map
Recently, South Somerset District Council (SSDC), an owner of XMAP, has started exporting layers to Parish Online - a veritable cornucopia of data, with 79 layers as of today, and more to come. One of these is Planning Applications, covering all back
Reordering table view
I seem to recall in the past that table view could be reordered alphabetically according to any column by clicking the top. I have just tried it today and I get a blank screen with a notice 'No rows found'. Is it my old system/browser or is this ge
Public Map Layout
Is it possible to reduce the size and move the Layers drop down on the public map? It does seem rather large and obtrusive. Maybe just swapping places with the zoom buttons may help
Neighbourhood Plan layers in Parish Online
We know how important Neighbourhood Plans are to a Local Council, and we know how much better they are when maps are included during the drafting and consultation phases. That's why we've taken learning from user feedback and neighbourhood plan consultant
Public Rights of Way
In the PRoW layer data in the 'Legend' is shown as a mix of colours and numbers, but there is no information to identify what the colours or the numbers mean. If this is a nationally adopted scheme for identifying characteristics of PRoWs this information
How to reflect more than one class in the styling
I often would like to reflect more than one class in the styling - such as a quantity or size (very big/big/small/etc) and a time of year say. I often see this on layers using, say, colours for one class and different shaped little dots/squares/stars
Making metadata from Parish Layers available in Public Map
When determining work for contractors - eg areas of grass to be mown - the area of grass to be cut is often of great interest to many. If you info-click such an area within Parish Online, the metadata is visible in the data record in the left column,
Mobile Usage
I was hoping to log the location of the dog bins in our Parish (exciting I know), whilst using Parish Online via my mobile with the GPS tracking to get decent pinpoint locations. Now it didn't help that it was freezing and drizly, but I struggled to add
Streetlights
The addition of the new layer for streetlights is very welcome, as this allows the multiple streetlight assets to be clearly separated from the other 'Street Furniture'. However in our parish we also have street lights owned and operated by the County
Asset Register report that totals the value of assets
Is there a report which will give the total value of all assets in the Asset Register, please? I know that we have asked for the Asset Register Export - currently only in .pdf format - to be available in .csv format, from which it would be very easy
Extracting geo data from photographs
Some kind person has taken a lot of pictures of various items of our street furniture, in an effort to try and help me. The images were taken on a modern iPhone but the EXIF data shows the geo-coordinates as latitude and longitude - in degrees, minutes
Legend - how to specify
When I add items to a layer how do I select the column column in 'Table View' that I want to populate the Legend ?
Used of a filter in the Asset Register layers
I've added multiple icons to the 'Asset Register - Street Furniture' layer, in fact so many (and still more to add) that they crowd each other out and it's becoming impossible to see with clarity what we have. I have tried to Filter following the instructions
Transfer of bulk data into and out of a layer
The table view is is very useful. It is particularly useful to be able to export it to a spreadsheet. What I would also be able to do is the reverse. For many reasons - for example: • I would like to modify the data on a spreadsheet and then reinsert
Entering more than one set of coordinates
I occasionally want to enter several sets of coordinates at once (from EXif data of six photos for example). But I can only enter one. Entering the second replaces the first. Is there any way of doing this. ? And if not, is it something that would
Adding multiple data entries to one polygon
Hello, I'm try to list a number of activities and groups that use a particular community centre. I've created the relevant layer and a polygon that matches the building. I've entered the first activity using the building but cannot enter another. Can
Filtering Planning Applications
We are very enthused that South Somerset District Council (SSDC)- our Local Planning Authority, and a recent adopter of XMAP - has started exporting Planning Applications into Parish Online: hooray!! More than a decade's worth of data: delicious!
Entering coordinates
Entering coordinates always raises my blood pressure. The main reason is that the iphone photo exif data is still in the days of rod, poles and perches. Changing it to a format that PO can digest is a tedious wsste of my life. I dont want PO to change
Logging in by Parish Online
If you come in to the community forum, from Parish Online, could we have an arrangement by which the forum recognises our legitimate Parish Online account, so that we don't have to log in again to the community forum?
Enable users to see the scale of the map in use
Currently there is no way to tell the scale of the map in use. Once determined, then it would also be a great help to be able to zoom directly to that same scale in future (very useful when comparing two maps, one of whose scale you know) So, please
Action buttons look as though they are greyed out.
On the original page, the Add Topic button looks as though it is greyed out. Even worse, when the topic is filled, the eye is naturally taken to Submit a ticket as the eye is naturally taken to the largest button and Submit a ticket seems at a quick glance
Masking within a Parish
There is a very good masking facility when looking across the boundary of our parish, but there are also times when one would like to mask within a parish as well.
Asset Register exort Defibrillators
When I view the report it shows 256 defibrillators...we only have 1. It seems to be picking up all on the system. All other assets look OK. Just me did I need to check a box somewhere?
Highways Network Speed Limits
Chris With reference the comments made by Stogursey on this subject. The information in this layer is not only incorrect but in some cases dangerous. The layer for Nether Stowey shows farm tracks across fields as being accessible and with a 60mph limit.
Asset Register Exports
The Knowledge Base entry for "Asset Register Exports" states that future exports - eg in .csv format - may be created, based upon demand. I hereby register a request for this asap, please, since much of the point of the Asset Register is to record due
New Energy Performance Certificate Map launched - how will you use this data?
You may have seen that we've recently added a new dataset; EPC Register Map. It's a map showing the Energy Performance Certificate ratings for residential properties in England and Wales. We've created a new dataset to help with visualising neighbourhoods
Batch Value Changes
Is it possible to change all of a particular value for a particular asset type to a different value, without having to go into each asset? I've recently received a spreadsheet with all our street lights, including models - at the moment I have most of
'Select a Layer' in Feature Editor: vary the choice depending upon the starting Collection
In the Feature Editor, could it be arranged so that the list of layers available in the 'Select a Layer' box is restricted according to the Collection from which one entered the Feature Editor, please? Suppose one's task for the day is to add items to