New Update: Simpler Layers, Same Level of Control

We’ve just released a user-experience upgrade to the STA Logger web application, and although the change may appear small on the surface, it delivers significant benefits for day-to-day users.

Previously tracklogs and spray zones were split into separate layers per device. If a customer had eight devices in the field, the web map displayed 8 × Tracklog layers and 8 × Sprayzone layers.

This gave users fine-grained control, turning off a single device’s data was as easy as toggling that layer. However, it came with a downside: if you wanted to turn off all spray zones or all tracklogs, you had to click through each layer individually. On busy projects with multiple crews and dozens of devices, that became repetitive and inefficient.

The update

Now, all devices are grouped into one Tracklog layer and one Sprayzone layer. Instead of scrolling through a long list of layers, users can toggle whole data types on or off instantly.

Device level control

Just because the layers are grouped doesn’t mean you lose flexibility.

With this change, we’ve introduced a new Show/Hide Devices tool that gives you full control on a per-unit basis (see screenshot).

Users can:

• Filter the map by device
• Toggle individual units on/off
• Select multiple devices at once
• Quickly find a device using the search field

This means you can turn off all tracklogs with one click, or keep the tracklogs layer visible and simply hide one or two specific devices. Best of both worlds.

We listened to feedback from forestry contractors, restoration teams, and field ecologists who all said the same thing: “The layer list gets overwhelming when there are lots of devices.”.

By combining layers, we’ve reduced visual clutter and improved performance while retaining the control that power users rely on.

This update is now live, no action required on your end.

If you have feedback or ideas for future improvements, we’d love to hear them. Our goal is to keep refining the STA ecosystem to make field data collection and monitoring as efficient as possible.