Custom Map Provider

A custom map provider can display a map from a tile map server. The url for the tile map server is defined by concatinating different parts of the url.

This dialog can be opened from the map provider management dialog by selecting a custom map provider and pressing the Edit button or double clicking the map provider.

In the upper left area of the dialog the parts are defined, in the lower part the concatenated url is displayed in the field Custom Url.

Create Parts

A part can be defined by selecting the part type in the left column, the right column displays the part type related fields or information.

When parts are modified, the action Show/Update Custom Map must be clicked to see the modifications in the map. It can be helpful to enable image logging to see if images are loaded or not.

Part Types

Text	Simple text
Zoom level	Zoom level, starting with 0
X Position	tile number in horizontal direction *)
Y Position	tile number in vertical direction *)
Random Number	creates a random number in a range which can be defined with the min/max spinner controls

*) tile number is starting at the top left position, each zoom level has 2^zoom number of tiles.

Actions

Show/Update Custom Map	Displays the tile images in the map from the custom url
OSM Map	This action toggles the tile images between OpenStreetMap and the custom map provider. This feature is helpfull to navigate to the location and zoom level where the custom map provider provides tile images.
	Displays the map at the favorite location and zoom level
	Sets the current location as the favorite location

Fields

Zoom levels	Defines the zoom levels at which the tile images are available from the map provider
Show tile detail/errors	Displays the tile position and border of the tile. When loading of a tile image failed, en error is displayed.
Image log	When checked, loading of the tile image is logged in the field Image log:
Custom url	Displays the url of the concatenated part
Example url	This is a field which has no functionality but it can help to construct the custom url by pasting an example url into this field
Image log	is documented here