Mapping Providers
Which mapping service this company uses. OpenStreetMap needs no key and no account, so the map draws on the first boot; a Google or Mapbox contract is added here.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Maps & Geography
- Screen: Mapping Providers
Address in the console: /scm/geo-providers
List · 10 columns · 16 fields on its form · 2 of them required
Administrators only. This screen is absent for everybody else — including from search and from the reporting catalogue.
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Code | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Vendor | Status | vendor |
| Geocoding | Yes or no | supports_geocoding |
| Routing | Yes or no | supports_routing |
| Tiles | Yes or no | supports_tiles |
| Calls a second | Number | requests_per_second |
| Default | Yes or no | is_default |
| Last worked | Date and time | last_ok_at |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Vendor | Choice | google_maps, mapbox, here, tomtom, openstreetmap, azure_maps, esri, ptv, internal | |
| May be asked to geocode | Yes or no | ||
| May be asked to route | Yes or no | A provider licensed for geocoding and not for routing is a real situation, and asking it anyway is a bill. | |
| May be asked for distances | Yes or no | ||
| Knows about traffic | Yes or no | ||
| Serves map tiles | Yes or no | ||
| Base URL | Text | ||
| Tile URL template | Text | ||
| Attribution | Text | ||
| Calls a second | Number | ||
| Daily quota | Number | ||
| Default | Yes or no | ||
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.