How-to guides

This section is a set of how-to guides for using Siter — each page walks through a specific area of the application with step-by-step instructions and screenshots.

Projects and collaboration

• Projects — create, open, edit, copy, archive, and delete projects
• Sharing projects — share projects with other users via tokens and manage access requests

Map and layers

• Map view — navigate the map, understand its panels, and use the toolbar
• Layers — add, import, export, and organize map layers, and set the base map
  • Feature labels — set the text and styling of map labels
  • Custom and hosted imagery — XYZ, WMS, ArcGIS REST, GeoTIFF basemaps and server-hosted imagery

Features (map objects)

• Features — add, view, edit, and delete facilities and other map objects
  • Feature shapes — draw and edit feature geometry
  • Feature attributes — manage facility types and criteria-specific attributes
  • Feature explosives data — enter explosive quantities by hazard division
• Bulk editing — copy, move, and update multiple features at once

Relationships

• Feature relationships — link individual features to override analysis criteria
• Relationship Groups — group features into operational sets and auto-generate relationships from a matrix
• All relationships — review and edit every relationship in the project from one table

Analysis and output

• Running an analysis — execute QD calculations and view results
• Analysis symbology — customize how arcs, dimensions, and violations display
• Placement analysis — what-if analyses for candidate facility placements
• Result Sets and drawings — save analysis snapshots and export drawing outputs
• Submittals — generate DCMA, NATO, and DESR submittal forms

Utilities

• Digitizer — snapping and angle/length constraints for precise feature geometry
• To-do list — track tasks and reminders within a project
• Measurements — measure distances and areas on the map
• Data validation — find and remove empty explosive records with the Explosive Scrubber