The Onboard Control Centre displays a reference map in the background of the web map viewer when viewing tracklines as they are being processed. By default, the referene map is provided by a connection to OpenStreetMap. When no internet is available, different background data is needed offline. For this purpose, a separate installation is available for download from the Teledyne CARIS Customer Service Web site that will add a base map to your Onboard installation. This installation adds a CSAR image file, BaseMap.csar, to the following folder in the Onboard installation directory:
C:\ProgramData\CARIS\Onboard\BaseMap
The Onboard service will need to be restarted in order for the Control Centre to recognize the new files. |
Once installed, this file is available for use as the reference map and will be included in the layers list in the top-right corner of the web map viewer. When turned on, the BaseMap.csar file will be displayed as the reference map for the web map viewer.
The installed reference map file can be replaced with a CSAR image of your choosing, if desired. To replace the file, both the .csar and the .csar0 files of the replacement reference map must be copied to the BaseMap directory and renamed to BaseMap.csar. Before this can be done, however, the existing BaseMap.csar files must be renamed or moved to a different location.
Administrator permissions are generally required to make changes to files in the installation directory. |
To alter the files in the installation directory, the Control Centre must be closed and the Onboard service must be stopped to unlock the original files. Once the new files have been copied to the installation directory, the Onboard service and Control Centre can be restarted.
Procedure: Installation
To use a local reference map:
1. Download the BaseMap installer from the Teledyne CARIS Customer Service Web site.
2. Double-click the setup.exe file for the BaseMap installer and run the installation.
3. Restart the Onboard service.
4. Launch Control Centre, or refresh the browser window if Control Centre is already open.
5. Hover over the layers list to expand the list.
6. Click the check box to turn on the new base map, if it is not already selected.
Procedure: Custom Base Map
To use a custom reference map:
1. Close Control Centre if it is open.
2. Stop the Onboard Service.
3. Navigate to the BaseMap folder under the Onboard installation directory.
4. Rename or move the original BaseMap.csar files.
5. Copy the desired .csar and .csar0 files into the BaseMap folder.
6. Rename the new files to be BaseMap.csar and BaseMap.csar0.
7. Start the Onboard service.
8. Launch Control Centre.