Available on the Home > Utilities tab of the Spectrum
Spatial Analyst Administration Console is a new utility for uploading and creating named
resources (maps, layers and tables) in Spectrum Spatial. The utility is run as a tool
within MapInfo Professional™. The utility is a pre-requisite for Analyst because it
creates Named Layers in addition to Named Maps and Named Tables. A Named Layer for each
layer is needed by Analyst.
Note: Since the release of Spectrum Spatial Analyst 12.0 we
are only supporting the new map uploader (“Uploader to use with MapInfo Pro version
16 and later”). The previous map uploader (“Uploader to use with versions of MapInfo
Pro prior to version 16.”) is no longer supported by SSA. SSA administrators will
therefore need to use MapInfo Pro 16 (64 bit) (or later) and the new map
uploader.
The map uploader supports the concept of group layers. Layers can be nested into groups
and groups can also contain other groups of layers. If layers are grouped in MapInfo Pro
then the uploader creates both the named layers and also named group layers in the
Spectrum Spatial repository. In SSA we do not support showing layers that are inside a
named group layer. Whilst maps containing named group layers can be added to SSA, SSA
will only render layers that are at the top level and which are not inside any named
group layers. If a name map only contains named group layers at the top level then it
will appear empty in the SSA legend with no content.
The figure below provides a high level overview of how the Spectrum Spatial Analyst
relates to Spectrum Platform.