User guide
See what is happening around the places that matter to you. Start with your first useful map, or search.
Getting started
- Your first useful map in two minutesOpen the map, find a place, choose what to see, check a source, and keep the view.
- Find a country, city, region or placeSearch the place index, jump to a region, or click the map to ask what is here.
- Choose a desk and control layersDesks switch on coherent sets of layers; the layer panel controls each one.
- Read a map item, its source and its dateEvery item names where it came from and when; how to find both.
- Understand time: live, recent past, ahead, history and scenariosWhat the time bar does, what "LIVE" means, and what the product does not replay.
Make the workspace yours
- Save, reopen and share a viewLinks, saved views, workspaces and your account: what each keeps and where.
- Desks, panels, tabs and workspaces: what each changesFour words that are easy to mix up, and exactly what each one controls.
- Add your own sites and routesImport a CSV, GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, GPX or zipped Shapefile; what happens to it.
- Asset exposure and alertsWhich of your sites a hazard reaches, how it is worked out, and what does not happen yet.
- Work with an organisationCreate an organisation, invite people with a role, and what is shared.
- Export images, situation cards and reportsEvery export, what it contains, and which ones are locked.
Research with the map
- Weather, flooding and fire: observations versus guidanceWhich layers are measurements, which are official warnings, which are model guidance — and where each reaches.
- Aviation and maritime: coverage, timing and estimatesWhere aircraft and vessel positions come from, where they are missing, and what is projected.
- Infrastructure, energy and country indicatorsHow old the figures are, what a point stands for, and how to rank countries.
- News desks and the BriefingWhere news items come from, how dates and translations are shown, and what the Briefing is.
- Elections, regional flashpoints and policy researchThe pages beside the map, and where Cartevoir ends and Intellivoir begins.
Trust and troubleshooting
- Coverage, sources and freshnessLive monitoring, stored research and directory entries are different things; how to tell which you are looking at.
- Why a map can look emptyEvery reason a layer shows nothing, and how to tell them apart. No events is not the same as safe.
- What observed, aging, estimated, modelled and scenario meanThe visual truth key on the time bar, explained.
- Account, subscription, cancellation and supportSigning in, plans, managing billing, cancelling, refunds and how to reach us.
- Keyboard, touch, accessibility and display settingsShortcuts, text size, looks, units, projection and phone use.
- Troubleshooting saved views, permissions, imports and loadingCommon problems and what to do about each.
Reference
- Layer referenceEvery map layer with its source, update cadence, resolution and confidence.
- Sample sites CSVThree made-up sites in the accepted import format.