Background map enhancements for Data Inspector

Excellent idea

Great great ideas. I've passed them onto the team.

They advise:

- Adding a background map and Save background map for later use: BUG 56391 (Using the concept of named connections) (Status: 2017.0)

- Multiple background maps: BUG 50639 (Status: Planned)

It is a great suggestion, and now the operation of the background map is not very convenient.

If I open the background map function, then no matter I view any data, the background map will show. This causes the display speed to slow down.As geolassi has said, if I want to close the background map, I have to go to the FME Options menu. It's rather cumbersome to switch. So I don't usually use this feature.

If similar ArcGIS establish a base group layer, allows users to add multiple background map layers to the below, and use the checkbox to control the display of each map layer, may be more easy to use.

Upvoting this instead of making a new idea entry.

Saving the service credentials would be really nice!

Please make it possible to set the background map from workbench. I run quite a few translations with different rasters or vectors as background. Changing the background to the corresponding image or vector is annoying.

For instance by making a background map setter transformer that overrules the default background that set in DI. This would save reading the background in the workspace and sending it to its own inspector. The transformer could be set by attribute value or user parameter and thus storing it as a workspace specific background.

This Idea has been partially implemented in FME 2019.0. It is now possible to save Background Maps, change Background Maps, and add new Background Maps from the main Data Inspector UI.

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Please note that this is a beta feature and its functionality and appearance are subject to change as the product continues to evolve before the official release.