🗺️ Map View

The Map View improves situational awareness by displaying:

  • 🛩️ Platform position
  • 🎯 Target position and frame center
  • 🟩 Image footprint
  • 📝 GeoJSON annotations
  • 📍 VMTI targets

To open the Map Window, click the Map button.

Map

ℹ️ To use the base maps from the Map Layer list, the computer must have internet access, unless you configure offline maps or a local tile server.

📏 Filmed Area

After ingest is complete, StPlayer automatically calculates the full area covered by the video and displays it on the map.

Filmed Area

ℹ️ Area calculation requires the relevant metadata, such as corner points (Tags 26–33) or full coordinates (Tags 82–89).

🚩 Platform Path

When platform position metadata is available, StPlayer can draw the platform path on the map. This makes it easier to understand the aircraft route, direction of travel, and the relationship between the flight path and the observed area.

Platform path

ℹ️ This feature requires platform location metadata.

🔥 Heat Map

In addition to the filmed area, StPlayer can highlight the parts of the scene that receive the most camera attention by rendering a heat map based on frame center positions.

HeatMap

ℹ️ This feature requires metadata with frame center information (Tags 23–24).

🎬 Video Coverage

The Video Coverage Query helps you find relevant video segments by selecting an area on the map.

For example, if the footage follows a river to the ocean and then returns, you can define an Area of Interest and use the chart to locate the exact part of the clip where that area is visible.

Video coverage query

The resulting chart shows when the selected area appears in the video:

Video coverage chart

Click the chart to jump directly to the corresponding point in the video.

🗺️ Offline Maps

StPlayer can use pre-downloaded map tiles for selected regions when the computer does not have internet access.

📂 Local Map Files

StPlayer can optionally include a basic low-resolution world map for offline use.

The default tile location is:

C:\Program Files\ImpleoTV\StPlayer\Bin\x64\resources\map\map-tiles

You can add or replace these tiles with pre-downloaded tiles for your area of interest.

🧱 Creating Offline Maps

Many free and commercial tools can generate offline map tiles.

One of the easiest free options is Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC):

Using Mobile Atlas Creator

Figure 23. Using Mobile Atlas Creator

Steps:

  1. Select the region and the required zoom levels.
  2. Save the atlas as OSMDroid ZIP.
  3. The output will use a folder structure similar to:
{atlas_name}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

  1. Extract the ZIP and either:

  2. Copy the tiles into the StPlayer tile directory:

C:\Program Files\ImpleoTV\StPlayer\Bin\x64\resources\map\map-tiles
  • Serve them using a local or intranet HTTP server.

You can also create tiles from GeoTIFF files using tools such as:

These tools convert raster map data into a tile format compatible with StPlayer.