Change the Map in the Manager UI

Custom Deployment
1

Hi,

I have tried entering Lat and Longitude settings into the geo position attributes for my assets. I am in the UK, but the map always defaults back to Rotterdam? Do I need to adjust any Environment settings in the container?

Thanks,

2

Hi,

this is because for demo there is only a small map of Rotterdam included. You would need to extract and install your own map data. It is quite simple, you just put a new map as ./deployment/map/mapdata.mbtiles. @Don knows everything how a custom map can be created.

3

Thanks @michal

I will look into it.

I read on the issues list that you were considering linking to a map provider - that would be a good move :slight_smile:

4

Hi @3more,

Please follow this wiki page on the use of maps.
Note that you can download a map (free for personal use) using the link mentioned on the wiki. If you want to have a smaller portion of that map, you can use the guide (last section) on extracting that from the downloaded map.

If you have any questions please let us know,

Don

5

Thanks Don,

I did as you suggested and it is working great now :slight_smile:

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6

Hi @Don ,
I also have problems with the wiget map. I followed the instructions on the wiki but still with no success.
please see my docker-compose and mapsettings files and help me find the mistake.

{
“options”: {
“default”: {
“center”: [ 106.90, 20.85 ],
“bounds”: [ 106.63, 20.54, 107.18, 20.7 ],
“zoom”: 14,
“maxZoom”: 19,
“boxZoom”: false
},
“building”: {
“center”: [ 106.90, 20.85 ],
“bounds”: [ 106.63, 20.54, 107.18, 20.7 ],
“zoom”: 15,
“minZoom”: 14,
“maxZoom”: 19,
“boxZoom”: false
}
},
“version”: 8,
“sources”: {
“vector_tiles”: {
“type”: “vector”,
“url”: “mbtiles://mapdata.mbtiles”
}
},
}

manager:
restart: always
image: openremote/manager:${MANAGER_VERSION:-latest}
depends_on:
keycloak:
condition: service_healthy
environment:
DEV_MODE: ${DEV_MODE:-false}
MAP_TILES_PATH: ${MAP_TILES_PATH:-…/deployment/map/mapdata.mbtiles}
MAP_SETTINGS_PATH: ${MAP_SETTINGS_PATH:-…/deployment/map/mapsettings.json}

Thanks so much!

7

Hi @TheThings,

I see, well actually @michal, that you used three points instead of two or one (depending on your structure) in your paths to the mapdata and mapsettings. That might solve it.

MAP_TILES_PATH: ./deployment/map/mapdata.mbtiles
MAP_SETTINGS_PATH: ./deployment/map/mapsettings.json

Otherwise you could go a different direction and check this section I updated on the custom deployment wiki page: The deployment map structure and adjusted volume mapping for the manager. (you can remove the MAP environment settings in this case)

Let me know how it works out,

Don

8

hi,
i added volumes (- ./deployment:/deployment) to manager service in docker-compose file. but manager container unheathly when i start the stack.
i changed to (- ./deployment:/deployment/manager/app), the unheathly error was clear. (but, ofcourse, map page not change to my location).
please check this volumes.
Thanks so much
Things

9

How does your ./deployment dir looks like? It should be something like this:

> tree ./deployment
./deployment
├── keycloak
│   └── themes
├── manager
│   ├── app
│   │   ├── images
│   │   │   ├── favicon.png
│   │   │   ├── logo-mobile.png
│   │   │   └── logo.png
│   │   └── manager_config.json
│   ├── extensions
│   │   └── openremote-deployment-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
│   └── provisioning
│       └── consoleappconfig
│           └── master.json
├── map
│   ├── mapdata.mbtiles
│   └── mapsettings.json

When the manager is unhealthy what do you see in it’s log file? Is ./deployment directory writable?

10

Hi,
I found the problem and solved them. The map is displayed as desired.
Thanks for your support.
(By the way, I like your youtube video)

11

What was the problem?

12

i added some environment to manager service (same deploy.yml).

13

hi.
The exact cause of unhealthy manager container was due to the mapdata.mbtiles file.
I didn’t download the map from openstreetmap, but downloaded from "OpenSeaMap - The free nautical chart -1 & lang = de "
is also in mbtiles format.
The extracting to smaller tilesets succeeded, but the deployment failed. I don’t know why.
If possible, please help me try out maps from this source.
thanks.