The map

The map is where you work; the dashboard, where you study. Both read the same data, but the map is made for looking at one instant of Quintero’s forecast and moving through it, with everything needed a click away and nothing covering the view.

What is drawn, bottom to top

1. The basemap — satellite, relief or map, over the terrain in three dimensions. There is always one; it is chosen in Layers.
2. The domain information — the outline of the modelled area.
3. The contours — the concentration layer of the chosen species, in colour bands by the scale. It can also draw a meteorological parameter.
4. The wind — arrows, or an animated particle flow, with adjustable length, density and opacity.
5. The trajectories — a trajectory’s ribbon, when one has been requested.
6. The markers — sources, receptors and stations, always on top of everything.

The markers

A marker is a dark glass box: a symbol saying what it is — receptor, station, source, point of interest — and, depending on zoom, the name and value beside it. On a receptor or a station the symbol’s colour is the alert level at the instant shown; a source always wears the brand blue. When several markers fall on the same spot they cluster into one, showing the group’s worst level; when they merely touch, they grow compact. How they show — never, symbol only, with name, on hover, always — is set in Layers.

The rails and the panels

• The left rail opens windows that close on their own: Layers, and the Guides and Support buttons.
• The right rail toggles panels that stay: Legend, Receptors, Alerts, Series, Controls, Loc. Info, Graphs — wind rose and vertical profile — and Trajectory. A panel can be moved to another column, pinned, or expanded into a large window.
• The arrangement is remembered: the demo carries one, and each person can save their own from Settings → Panel Layout.

The top bar and the timebar

The top bar is the dimensions readout — species, scenario, source group, receptor, and the instant with its PAST / PRESENT / FORECAST chip —; the timebar is the instrument for moving through time. Each has its own page.

What it does not do

The map does not choose the receptor by itself — only a receptor does — and it keeps nothing between sessions except what is saved on purpose: the demo’s defaults, the panel arrangement, theme and language. On reload it returns to its published values.

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