Introduction To User Interface

Introduction

Once the citiwatts platform is opened, the disclaimer page is shown. Besides the disclaimer message, additional information regarding supported browsers, the objectives of the citiwatts project, the link to the Citiwatts project website, and the data repositories is provided.

📌 Short introduction to Citiwatts platform

The citiwatts GUI is a GIS-based interface. By closing the disclaimer page, the user sees the map of Europe. Once the disclaimer page is closed, a window prompting to accept cookies is displayed. The cookies are only statistical and do not contain any personal information on the user.

🗺️ Initial Page

Here you can spot at first glance 3 parts of the user interface:

A toolbar on the top of the page
The interactive map itself
Top right: A radio button for changing the style of the map and radio buttons to change the area of selection of the map

Please note that from release 3.0 and onwards, the radio buttons in the top right and parts of the tools previously accessible in the bar on the left side are now integrated into a toolbar on the top of the interactive map. The functionalities have not changed in this transition.

With this toolbar, you can:

Connect: Register and log into the toolbox by clicking the user icon.
Go To Place: Zoom in to a specific region by typing its name and pressing enter.
Feedback: Provide feedback regarding the tool.
Disclaimer: Go back to the disclaimer page by clicking on the logo.

💬 Feedback

Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the tool? Have you noticed any errors? Please let us know! Your feedback helps us enhance the platform.

🗺️ Tiles

You can choose the territorial scale that you want to analyze (regional or hectare level) and configure the map tiles.

🎚️ Tile Configurations:

🔍 Zoom in and out of the map
🏙️ Show regional boundaries to select specific regions

🧑🏼‍🏫 Tutorials and eLearning Materials

You can find more detailed information about a selection of functionalities and components in the eLearning Section of this Wiki: * Go To: Learning Center

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Final remarks

How To Cite

The citiwatts and Hotmaps teams, in citiwatts wiki, Introduction to user interface (2025)

Authors And Reviewers

Written by the OpenGIS4ET/citiwatts and Hotmaps teams and namely by:

EASILab - HES-SO Marie-Esther Mabillard EEG - TU Wien Jeton Hasani

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International License.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

License-Text: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html

Acknowledgement

The project “Open Geographic Information System for Energy Transition” (OpenGIS4ET, Project Number 111 786) has been supported by partners of the ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems and Mission Innovation through the Joint Call 2020. As such, this project has received funding from the

Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUDP), Denmark (Project No.: 64021-6026),
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany (Project No.: 03EI4050B),
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Austria (Project No.: 889031),
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Switzerland (Project No.: 502364).

The OpenGIS4ET project builts on the H2020 Hotmaps Project.

For more details please refer to the About page of this wiki.

Disclaimers

The content and views expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of the ERA-Net SES initiative. Any reference given does not necessarily imply the endorsement by ERA-Net SES.

The citiwatts toolbox is a living platform: As the research project as well as its sister and follow-up projects evolve, (new) functionalities are refined and bugs are addressed and solved. The toolbox is hosted in two environments: the development server and the production server. The development server has the most up-to-date version, with most of issues and bugs solved, but it might be unstable as developers keep working on it daily. The production server instead is a stable environment.