Add Layers

Add Layers allows you to add layers to the current map.

Select Layers > Add Layers from the What would you like to do? drop-down menu:

The Add Layers dialog allows you to add new layers to your map.

Supported Layer Types are as follows

Layer Type	Description
Bing Maps	Allows Bing Maps to be added and used for base mapping, including; Aerial, AerialWithLabels, CollinsBart, OrdnanceSurvey and Road.
GeognoSIS Tile Service	This adds a Cadcorp tile cache to the map.
Google Maps	Allows Google Maps to be used as base mapping. Supported maps include; Terrain, Roadmap, Hybrid and Satellite.
GeognoSIS SWD	Adds all the layers from an SWD stored on the same machine as GeognoSIS, through Microsoft HTTP API.
Open Street Map	Allows open source OSM data to be added as base mapping, Including; OSM Standard Style, OpenCycleMap, OpenCycleMap Transport, MapQuest and MapQuest Open Aerial.
Regular Tile Cache	Also known as a XYZ Tile Cache or Google Disk.
Tile Cache	Also known as Disk Tile Cache.
WFS	Adds data served as an OGC Web Map Feature Service. WFS returns data as actual features with geometry and attributes.
WMS From Capabilities	Adds all the layers from an OGC Web Map Service to be added. The multiple layers can be added as individual overlays, or as one single overlay. WMS simply returns an image of the data.
WMS from Capabiliies
WMS	A number of layers can be chosen from an OGC Web Map Service, to be added to the Web Map Layers 8.0 site as one overlay. WMS simply returns an image of the data.
WMTS	Adds an OGC Web Map Tile service, which is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered georeferenced map tiles over the internet.

Click on the Layer Type in the above table to link to the corresponding topic.

Note: The maximum number of layers that Cadcorp Web Map Layers can handle is limited to 100.

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