Map view layer: Additional external information sources

REQUIREMENTS
Permission	All users
Connectivity	Online only

This document describes the functionality of the ARFI layer of the Map view of the InfoEx report.

The goal of the AFRI map layer is to provide users easy access to geospatial external information sources useful for avalanche forecasting purposes.

NOTE	The name ARFI stands for Avalanche Research and Forecasting Interface and is from a Google Map project that Cora Shea developed for ASARC at the University of Calgary

Layout

Fig. 1: ARFI layers of map view of InfoEx report.

The ARFI layers currently support the following external information sources:

Tmin	Blue label	Lowest minimum temperature recorded at weather sites by this operation during the time period of report.
Tmax	Red label	Highest maximum temperature recorded at weather sites by this operation during the time period of report.
WX Label	White label	Name and elevation of weather site.

Functionality

• Click on the ARFI Layers label in the layer hierarchy panel to show/hide this layer on the map.
• Click on the label of an external information source in the layer hierarchy panel to directly zoom the map to the area that has related observation types.
• Click on the check box next to an external information source in the layer hierarchy panel to show/hide the particular external information source icons on the map.

Related documents

• Operation overview
• Avalanche observations
• Avalanche hazard
• Snow Profiles
• Field summary
• Weather observations
• Time slider (used for all map layers)
• Additional external information sources

Functionality tested by

• Jan. 2, 2014: Pascal Haegeli