Glossary of Spatial Map terms
Plain definitions of Spatial Map terms: workspace, facility, floor plan, area, rack, bin, asset, data link, table, solution, share link, report and more.
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Account and team
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Workspace | The top-level container for everything you do: facilities, data, reports, members and the plan. Workspaces are kept apart from each other. | Workspaces |
| Member | A person with an account who belongs to a workspace, with one role. | Members and roles |
| Owner | The person who created the workspace. Can do everything, including billing and deleting the workspace. There is one per workspace. | Members and roles |
| Admin | Manages members, integrations, tables and files, creates reports, and can do everything an editor can. | Members and roles |
| Editor (role) | Creates and edits facilities, share links and solutions, and edits table rows and the reports they’ve been given Edit on. | Members and roles |
| Viewer (role) | Sees facilities, data and the reports shared with them, but can’t change anything. | Members and roles |
| Trial | The free plan every new workspace starts on: 7 days, up to 5 facilities. | Plan and billing |
| Pro | The paid plan: $60 a month or $600 a year, up to 4 facilities. | Plan and billing |
| Solution | A named group inside a workspace (Anti-theft, Cold Chain…) that collects facilities, reports, tables and integrations for one use case. Nothing is moved or copied, and an item can be in several solutions. | Solutions |
Facilities and the map
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Facility | One building or site, such as a store, warehouse or factory, drawn at its real location on the map. Some older URLs and API paths call it a "warehouse". | Facilities |
| Layout editor | The page where you draw and edit a facility. Also just called "the editor". | Editor overview |
| Floor plan | An image, PDF sheet or DWG drawing placed to scale on the map. A DWG or PDF becomes a picture of the drawing. | Floor plan tool |
| Floor | One level of a building. Each floor plan sits at its own height, and shapes are assigned to a floor, so you can show one level at a time. | Layers, floors and basemap |
| Shape | Anything drawn on the map: an area, rack, asset, aisle, wall, door, stair, lift, text label, 3D model and so on. | Editor overview |
| Area | A polygon for a room, zone or bay, such as Office 2 or Receiving. Areas can be tinted by live data. | Area tool |
| Rack | A grid of cells for shelving, pallet racks, parking bays and anything else with repeating slots. | Rack tool |
| Bin (cell) | One slot in a rack, with a row and column address (and a level on stacked racks). A bin can hold a record such as stock, an SKU and a status. | Rack tool |
| Asset (marker) | A point on the map for a thing or person, with an icon and a label. Live data can place and move markers by coordinates. | Asset tool |
| Aisle | A line drawn along a walkway or corridor. | Aisle tool |
| Text label | Text placed on the map, such as a room name. | Text label tool |
| Route | A walking path used for indoor wayfinding between two points. | Route tool · Wayfinding |
| Basemap (map style) | The street or satellite map underneath your facility. | Layers, floors and basemap |
| Layer | One kind of thing on the map (areas, racks, a data link…) that you can show or hide. | Viewer layers panel |
Data
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Data source (source) | Anything that brings records into a workspace: a REST API integration, an uploaded file, or a table. | Integrations |
| Integration | A data source set up on the Integrations page. A REST API is polled on a schedule, and an uploaded file is imported once. | Integrations |
| Table | Your own schema inside Spatial Map, with an editable grid of rows and an API your systems can write to. | Tables · Table write API |
| Record (row) | One item of data, such as one room, one sensor reading or one stock line. | Data screen |
| Field | One named value on a record, such as status, latitude or SKU. | Tables |
| File | An upload stored in the workspace: floor plans, image planes, 3D models and imported data files. | Files |
Data links and styling
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Data link | The connection between one data source and one facility that puts records on the map. For example, it tints rooms by status, places markers by coordinates, or fills rack bins. | Data links overview |
| Display mode | How a data link draws its records: tinting existing shapes, placing points, filling rack cells and so on. | Source and display mode |
| Floor scope | Which floors a data link shows on: the floor named in each record, specific floors, or all floors. | Shapes and floors |
| Saved filter | A named filter on a data link that viewers can switch on with one click. | Saved filters |
| Style rule | A condition and a look, such as "status is occupied → red". Style rules colour shapes and bins from their data. | Style and style rules · Style rules |
| Tooltip | The small card that appears when you hover over or click something on the map, showing fields from its record. | Tooltip and panel |
Viewing and sharing
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Viewer | The read-only map of a facility, opened with Preview, with live data, floors, layers and a detail drawer. Not to be confused with the Viewer role. | Viewer overview |
| Preview mode | The layout editor with drawing turned off, for looking around without changing anything. | Preview mode |
| Detail drawer | The side panel that opens when you click a shape in the viewer, with its properties and history. | Shape detail drawer |
| Share link | A URL that opens a facility’s viewer without signing in. It can expire, cap its number of views, and be revoked. | Share links |
| View cap | The maximum number of times a share link can be opened before it stops working. | Share links — General |
Reports
| Term | Meaning | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Report | A live page of KPIs, charts, tables and maps built from your data. Every facility gets eight ready-made reports. | Reports |
| Report builder | The step-by-step editor for creating and changing reports. | Report builder |
| Widget | One block on a report: a KPI, a chart, a table or a map. | Report widgets and export |
| Full-map report | A report laid out around a large map, with a list on one side. | Full-map reports |
| Viewer filter | A filter in the bar above a report that anyone opening it can change. | Report builder |
| Time window | How many days back a history report looks. | Report builder |
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