rondauva
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5 years ago Hello @lasantangelo,
I'm not sure that I completely understand your question, so I'm going to throw a couple of answers out, and you can tell me if I'm close to giving you the information you need, ok?
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A Neatline item can have multiple map annotations. As an example, if you were creating an exhibit about Stonehenge, and you wanted to mark all the locations of the blue stones, you might want to just have one Neatline record that talked about those stones, and so you'd draw shapes around the all the locations where they once stood, and all of these shapes would share one descriptive text block and title. In this case, any click on any one of those annotations will bring up the same item record pop-up.
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You can layer as many map annotations as you want to over a location on the map. For example, one building in a city that had several important events occur inside it, each event represented by a separate Neatline item. In this example, the way that you layer those annotations becomes very important to allow users to access all the records associated with a location. Some ways of handling that include using the Z-index values to indicate the stacking order of the annotations, and drawing them in such a way as to allow the user to have a "handle" to click in order to pull up the Neatline record associated with each annotation, and changing each annotation's fill color so it was clear that several annotations were overlaid on each other.
Another option is to use minimum and maximum zoom levels associated with each annotation. As an example, if you were annotating a WWI battle location, from a zoomed out viewpoint, you could include records that talked about the area, the general troop movements on each side, and delineate locations of field hospitals, fall back positions, command posts, etc. You would fill in min and max zoom values for each of these annotations so that they were only visible to users when the map was zoomed out between two different values, for example from zoom level 13-10, a user could see these more general information annotations. Then you can zoom in the viewport to zoom level 8 or 9 and create another "layer" of annotations with more specific information about the events and locations you gave general information about at higher zoom levels, again filling in the min and max zoom levels for each of these items so that they're only visible at max zoom level 9. What you need to consider in this scenario is how you will help your users navigate between these two levels of map annotations, since it won't be obvious to a viewer that zooming in will provide more information.
I hope this helped! Please do let me know if you were asking something else. I'm happy to refine the information I'm offering until you have what you need.
Best, Ronda
lasantangelo
Hello--Is it possible for neatline to display multiple items (in this case, events) at one address? It seems to only display one item/address, rather than the multiple I imported.