How to: Enable heatmaps in Map view

Last modified: Monday October 24, 2022.

You can enable heatmaps in Map view. When enabled, each map displays the heat map of where people or vehicles have been over the selected time period. Areas with no traffic show as the standard video stream, whereas areas with traffic show with a transparent colored mask, with the least traffic showing in purple and blue, moving to areas with the most traffic showing in the red spectrum.

Task — Enable heatmaps

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Map view Map view.
  2. Click Heatmaps Heatmaps button.
  3. From the submenu, select either People Heatmap Heatmaps: people or Vehicles heatmap Heatmaps: vehicles.
    The default heatmap setting is to show the last 1 hour of data.
  4. To change the time frame used for the heatmap, select Heatmaps settings Heatmap settings and choose your preferred time.

    You can also choose to Ignore stationary objects.