Create a site plan

A site plan is the drawing Live Map places machines on. Each Location can have one or more plans: a whole-site layout, a workshop floor, a yard in detail. You can upload a picture, or import the shapes your surveyor already drew in Google Earth.

#Before you start

• Live Map is switched on per company, not by plan. If you do not see it, contact Solmex.
• You need Live Map: Edit. Creating new Sublocations during an import also needs Sublocations: Edit.
• The Location must exist. See Add Locations and Sublocations.

#Two kinds of plan

If you have trackers on your machines, or plan to, choose a georeferenced plan or import a KMZ.

#Upload a drawing

1. Open Live Map and choose the Location.
2. Click New plan.
3. Type a Plan name, such as "Phase 2 yard".
4. Under Kind, choose Drawing (image) or Georeferenced (latitude/longitude box).
5. Under Drawing, choose a PNG, JPG or WEBP file. A PDF must be exported to PNG first.
6. For a georeferenced plan, fill in North, South, East and West under Box edges. Read them off the survey or Google Earth. They are optional when you upload a drawing, and required without one.
7. Check the Preview and click Create plan.

To swap the picture later, open the plan and click Replace drawing. The Areas stay where they are, so if the new drawing is cropped differently, check every Area afterwards.

#Import a KMZ or KML file

A KMZ is the file your surveyor or Google Earth produces. Polygons and points in it become Areas named after each placemark, lines become reference lines, and a ground overlay becomes the drawing.

1. Open Live Map, choose the Location, and click Import KMZ.
2. Choose the KMZ or KML file.
3. Optionally type a Plan name. Left blank, the name inside the file is used.
4. Under Target, choose Create a new plan, or replace the Areas of an existing plan.
5. Click Check file. Nothing is written yet.
6. Read the review. Each placemark shows an Outcome: Matched (it names one of your Sublocations), New sublocation, Reference line, Duplicate, Invalid or Ignored.
7. If the file names places you have not registered, tick Create the Sublocations this file names that the register does not have yet, or rename them in the file and check it again.
8. Click Import. The Done step shows how many Areas and lines were written, and Open the plan takes you to it.

#The street map

On a georeferenced plan with no drawing of its own, Live Map can show a light street map underneath, with roads and place names. Use the Hide the street map and Show the street map buttons beside the zoom controls. Place names on the street map are in the local language and cannot be translated.

#Rules worth knowing

• Sublocation names are matched exactly, ignoring case. A placemark called "wash bay" matches your Sublocation "Wash Bay". An unmatched name is never created silently: you tick the box, or the import stops.
• Re-importing onto an existing plan replaces its Areas. The review says how many Areas will be replaced. It never renames or archives a Sublocation.
• A failed import writes nothing. You can fix the file and check it again.

#Troubleshooting