Map view

The IRIS Focus main view is a scrollable map area. In the case of radar/lidar data, the map is centered around the selected device site. By default, the map around the area is drawn using Web Mercator projection.

In the map view, you can select multiple simultaneous products, and display them on separate tiled windows, or on a combined layer overlay view.

The products include radar and lightning products generated by IRIS software, and optionally WMS layers from external sources.

¹ Weather radar data: courtesy of Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd. Lightning data: courtesy of Transpower New Zealand Ltd.

You can switch to a dark map mode by selecting Map Features in the top right corner of the UI, and selecting Dark map. Switching to the Dark map disables the terrain layer, and vice versa.

The map engine in IRIS Focus runs on the open source GeoServer map server. The map data is gathered from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, and the JavaScript user interface is built with the OpenLayers library. To improve performance, map data is cached as bitmap tiles with GeoWebCache.