Add custom overlays to support your imagery interpretation and monitoring – all within Lens. Simply upload a geospatial file, then select what attributes and in which portfolios your overlay is most useful.
Overlays display vector data on top of the basemap and selected layer, and may be polygons, lines, or points. This data can provide helpful context when monitoring, such as areas where management activities are occurring, restricted use areas, photo points, trails, and more.
Up to now, adding custom overlays to your Lens account has required emailing our team. Now the power is in users’ hands to add custom overlays directly in Lens. We expect this feature will save users time and provide more configuration options than ever before.
Head over to the Overlays Library page, and admin or member users will see a button to “Add Custom Overlay.” Add overlays from our library, manage your own custom overlays, and choose the portfolios where they will appear.
Simply upload your geospatial file, select an optional attribute to display on hover, and review the shapes to make sure everything looks correct. Once you confirm your upload, you’ll be taken back to the Overlay Library page, where you can see your new Custom Overlay under the Your Overlays section. From here, you can select which portfolios it should appear on by default.
