Testing the New Maps in 2.5.0

I have been eager to take a look at the new Mapping Features in 2.5.0

My first test involved looking up what datasets my city had publically available so I had some content to place on a map. Turns out my city has quite a few live datasets exposed via API through it’s “OpenCity program”: http://data-cityofmadison.opendata.arcgis.com/. Using this, I was able to find some crime statistics. This was a simple set of publically released incident reports with case #'s and details for crimes in my city.

This crime info is exposed via an API so I was very easily able to do an invoke-webrequest to pull this information. Unfortunately, I was only provided with Addresses and NOT GPS Coordinates. To Facilitate this I simply used Bing Maps Locations API to turn addresses and city info into specific lat/long coords: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/locations/find-a-location-by-address. This allowed me to place incidents from my dataset onto their real-world location.

Finally, I was able to For-Each my way through all of my retrieved incidents and place them on a map. I was able to do all of this in under an hour from start to finish - really excited to build out some new projects with this!

$HomePage = New-UDPage -Name "Home" -Icon home -Endpoint {

    $Incidents = Get-Incidents 

    New-UDMap -Endpoint {
        New-UDMapLayerControl -Content {
            New-UDMapBaseLayer -Name 'Black and White' -Content {
                New-UDMapRasterLayer -TileServer 'https://tiles.wmflabs.org/bw-mapnik/{z}/{x}/{y}.png' 
            } -Checked
            New-UDMapBaseLayer -Name 'Color' -Content {
                New-UDMapRasterLayer -TileServer 'https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png' 
            }

            $Incidents | ForEach-Object {

                $Incident = $_
                
                New-UDMapOverlay -Name $Incident.IncidentType -Content {
                    New-UDMapMarker -Latitude $Incident.Latitude -Longitude $Incident.Longitude -Popup (New-UDMapPopup -Content { New-UDHeading -Text $Incident.Details })
                } -Checked

            }
          
        }
    } -Height '100vh'
    
}

I have a TON of ideas for UD Maps and will plan on sharing some more ideas as I work through some demos!

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My next test, I wanted to map some LIVE data.

My city also provides live lat/lon coords for buses as well as a variety of other information:

Next up is to put the route / trip paths and information on map. Hoping to do a tutorial or blog post here pretty soon!

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I can’t wait for that blog post! Im gonna use this to map out my inventory layout for the company.

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I’m playing with maps and can’t figure out how to change the markers. I see in the image above that you’ve changed markers to the picture of a bus. When I supply a -Icon, the marker just doesn’t show up. Any suggestions?