SkyTruth Alerts

How-To Guide: Add Data Layers

Photo of pipeline explosion, Center Township, PA, taken 2 April 2019. Provided by FracTracker Alliance

Add Data Layers

If you have a data layer you would like to view in SkyTruth Alerts, you can drag it onto the map to view it as a layer. Alerts supports GeoJSON, shapefile, CSV and KML data layers. Click the Drag and Drop Files tab for more info.

To add a data layer to Alerts:

Find the data layer from your desktop or in a list of files on your computer in the Finder or Explore window, etc.
Click and drag the data layer to the center the SkyTruth Alerts map.

To remove the data layer:

Click the X icon next to the data layer filename in the Drag and Drop Files tab.

Save data layer as AOI:

If your data layer is a shapefile or GeoJSON file and contains a single polygon or multipolygon, you can save it as an AOI in Alerts.

Data layers cannot be saved in Alerts but you can create screen shots that include your data.
KMZ data layers must be uncompressed (converted to KML layers) before dragging them to the Alerts map. This can be done by using Google Earth to import and then export the data.

The sample GeoJSON, shapefile, and KML data layers used in the above video can be downloaded from Mapbox.