Measure and Terrain Profiles

One toolbar tool answers both "how far?" and "what does the ground do along the way?". "Measure & profile" measures distance along a drawn path and then opens a terrain profile of that path, with line-of-sight and clearance readings — useful for anything from a quick sanity check to siting a link across a valley.

Measure a path

1. In the map toolbar, click "Measure & profile".
2. Click on the map to place vertices along the path you want to measure. Ava Reyes at Meridian Geospatial might trace a proposed tie-in route between two features in "Hydrants" on the "Harbourview Network Buildout" project.
3. Read the popup as you go: it shows the distance in kilometres, with a miles sub-line beneath it.

Read the terrain profile

Completing a measured path fetches an elevation profile and opens a docked bottom pane titled "Terrain Profile":

A "Line of sight" badge tells you whether the straight line between your endpoints clears the terrain, with the minimum, maximum, gain, and loss along the path beside it.

Hover anywhere on the chart to read the ground height and the clearance — the gap between the sight line and the ground — at that exact point.

Closing the pane leaves your measurement on the map.

If elevation data cannot be fetched, the pane reports "Elevation profile unavailable" and notes "The measured path stays on the map." — your distance measurement is unaffected.

Inspect a feature

To read a feature's attributes in place:

1. Select a feature on the map with point selection.
2. An info popup opens at the click location. When several features hit, a layer dropdown at the top lets you switch between them.
3. Read the key/value attribute rows for the chosen feature. A feature with nothing to show reads "No details available".

The popup answers "what is this?" and not much more. To go through a whole dataset properly, open the layer in Data Store; for many features at once, use Spatial Selection.