Basemaps, boundaries and heat

The basemap is the map underneath everything else. INVIA draws its own roads, pins, routes and heat on top, so a new basemap changes the backdrop and not your work. This page covers the seven basemaps, the builder's 3D On and Labels On buttons, the Land boundaries switch, and the heat maps.

How to get here#

1. Open Explore or Plan.
2. Click the Layers control at the top right of the map. Its label is the name of the basemap in use, for example Hybrid, so you can read which basemap you are on without opening the list.
3. Click Basemap to open the list of seven.
4. Click Info to reach Land boundaries.

Basemaps#

Seven basemaps draw the same ground different ways, so you can pick the one that shows what the ride needs.

The builder and Explore open on Hybrid, which puts real imagery under labelled roads so you can read the ground and your position together. The map builder and its previews open on Outdoors instead, which draws terrain and trails under the lines you are building.

Picking a basemap redraws the map style, and INVIA puts its own layers back afterwards, so a basemap is a backdrop change and nothing more.

• The list collapses back to the Basemap row.
• INVIA re-adds its own roads, pins and heat on top.
• Your layer switches are unchanged. Nothing is turned off.

USGS Topo past zoom 16#

USGS Topo is a raster map from the national map and its own tiles stop at zoom 16, which is why the picture stops sharpening when you keep zooming in.

• Past zoom 16 the map keeps drawing.
• The tiles are enlarged instead of resharpened, so detail stops improving.
• Your routes, your pins and the INVIA Base Map roads draw as usual.
• Pick Hybrid or Outdoors to read finer detail.

3D and Labels#

Both buttons are on the builder's map only, which is why the Layers control on Explore does not have them. Open Plan to reach them.

3D On / 3D Off#

The label reports the current state rather than the action, so it reads 3D Off until you turn it on.

1. Open the Layers control.
2. Press 3D Off.

The map drapes over real terrain, so ridges and canyons stand up out of the map and you can see what a line has to climb. The button now reads 3D On. Off by default.

3D On has no effect on USGS Topo.

• The button still flips.
• The map stays flat. USGS Topo carries no elevation data.
• Your routes, pins and roads are all unchanged.
• Pick another basemap to see terrain.

Tilting with the map compass adds the same terrain on its own, which means the map can be in 3D while the button still reads 3D Off.

Labels On / Labels Off#

Labels Off hides every text label the basemap draws, so place names and road names go together rather than one at a time.

• The imagery, the roads and your route line are all still drawn.
• The names INVIA prints on its own roads are a separate switch, Road labels, under Info, so those road numbers stay on screen.
• Press Labels On to bring the basemap labels back.

On by default. INVIA re-applies your labels choice when you change basemap, so you do not have to set it again on every basemap you try.

Land boundaries#

Land boundaries is a switch under Info in the Layers control. It shades whose ground the roads cross, so you can see a closure or a restriction while you are still planning rather than at the trailhead. Off by default. Pro.

Turn it on and INVIA draws three kinds of land, each drawn its own way so you can tell them apart without tapping.

Boundaries draw beneath the road lines, so they never hide the road network.

The switch persists in that browser and the builder and Explore share it, so a boundary you turn on while planning is still on when you move to Explore.

Your map layer choices are saved in that one browser and nowhere else, so a second browser, a second device or a private window starts from the defaults with Land boundaries off again. Every other layer switch resets with it, which means the base map, all six road classes, both kinds of pin and Road labels are all back on and the legend card is showing. Clearing the site's data does the same to the browser you are in. None of this is kept with your account, so signing in on the new browser does not carry the setting across. Turning Land boundaries back on there is the only way to get it.

When Land boundaries is locked#

Land boundaries is a Pro feature. When Pro enforcement is on and your account does not have the feature, the switch is replaced by a Pro tag with a lock.

• Tapping the tag opens the plan picker. Boundaries stay off.
• Every road class you already have still draws. So do your routes, your pins and all seven basemaps.
• Plans.

Heat maps#

Heat on Explore#

Heat shows you where people already ride, because every public route and every public ride in the loaded area is drawn as a soft line. Routes glow blue. Rides glow orange.

Where lines overlap the glow stacks and gets brighter, so a road many riders have used reads brighter than one a single rider took. The soft glow is drawn at every zoom, and past zoom 7 the coarse bright core fades out and a crisp line per route is drawn instead.

Free on every account.

Two buttons sit beside Heatmap in the Explore sidebar, Routes and Rides. They are independent, so you can read ride traffic on its own without route lines over the top. Both start on.

Press Routes to turn route heat off.

• The blue glow and the blue crisp lines both leave the map.
• The orange ride heat stays on the map.
• The basemap, the INVIA Base Map roads and every pin are unchanged.
• Press Routes again to bring the blue heat back.

The two buttons are on screen only while the sidebar is on its Routes tab, so another tab takes the buttons away without touching the heat itself.

• Move to another tab and the buttons are not drawn.
• Your heat setting is unchanged and the map still draws what you left on.
• Go back to the Routes tab to reach the buttons again.

Heat in the builder#

The Display group in the Toolbox has two heat pills beside the word Heatmap, so you can lay heat under the route you are drawing and follow the roads people already use.

Both pills are off by default, and builder heat draws on the builder's map only, so turning a pill on changes the map you are drawing on and nothing else.

When Mine is locked#

Mine is Pro. When Pro enforcement is on and your account does not have the feature, the pill carries a lock.

• Pressing it does not turn the red layer on. The message reads Your personal heatmap is a Pro feature.
• Your routes and rides are all still saved and still on the map.
• Global still works, and it is free. Press Global to see the community heat.