Annotate the map: features, overlays and site plans
Draw on your map the way you'd mark up a drawing - then carry it straight through to your site plans.
Blog · 6 June 2026
A map is more than a scatter of location markers. You want to ring a contamination zone, label an access route, point an arrow at the thing the client keeps asking about. Until now that meant exporting a screenshot and marking it up in something else.
Six feature types, organised in layers
You can now draw points, lines, polygons, text, arrows and callouts directly on the map. Each one lives in a named layer - Contamination Zones, Access, Proposed Works - that you can show or hide independently, the way you would manage layers in a CAD drawing. Draw it, style it, edit it in place.
Image and PDF overlays
Alongside shapefiles and GeoJSON, you can now drape a scanned site plan or a PDF page over the map. Crop it down to the area that matters, rotate it to line up with north, set the opacity, and order it against your other layers. The historical drawing and the live data finally share one view.
From the map to the page
The point of marking up a map is the drawing you hand over. Feature layers carry through onto your site plan templates, and your text, arrows and callouts are rendered as crisp vectors in the exported PDF rather than fuzzy screenshots. What you draw on screen is what lands on the page.