{"id":34139,"date":"2021-12-06T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/?page_id=34139"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:00:57","slug":"creating-a-background-mapping-index-file","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/support-articles\/creating-a-background-mapping-index-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Background Mapping Index File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InstantAtlas Desktop supports a range of different background mapping options. We would highly recommend you use one of the online background maps such as ArcGIS Online base maps or a Web Map Service as these are usually easier to connect to and are in many cases regularly updated by the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a background layer from a local raster image collection is still possible &#8211; please refer to section <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-desktop-publisher\/publishing-a-report\/choose-your-background-images\/#Adding_Images_from_a_Background_Image_Collection\"><span id=\"Adding_Images_from_a_Background_Image_Collection\" tabindex=\"-1\">Adding Images from a Background Image Collection <\/span><\/a><span id=\"Adding_Images_from_a_Background_Image_Collection\" tabindex=\"-1\">before downloading the<\/span>\u00a0guide and sample files <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/12\/indexfilev670.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InstantAtlas Desktop supports a range of different background mapping options. We would highly recommend you use one of the online background maps such as ArcGIS Online base maps or a Web Map Service as these are usually easier to connect to and are in many cases regularly updated by the publisher. Creating a background layer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/support-articles\/creating-a-background-mapping-index-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating a Background Mapping Index File<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":27601,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34139\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}