A screenshot of the data browser

This window is used to display information from the various analyses and geographical data sources present in your project. The values displayed track the mouse cursor while it moves over the map.

Entries in grey indicate that the underlying data source must be refreshed before the data can be shown. You can refresh an entry by clicking the Refresh button icon or by double-clicking the entry. You can access the properties of the data source by clicking on the Properties button icon.

An entry in the data browser is made for every Geo Data provider in your project, and the entries update whenever you add or remove a geo data source. Entries are grouped by the type of the data they represent. You can collapse a group by clicking on the Collapse group icon; clicking on the Expand group icon will expand it again.

Entries with a Expand entry are nested and can be expanded to view more detail. A nested data source has several values at a given point. As an example, polygon data that represents postcode boundaries might have several attributes attached to each polygon; the expanded view would show you the value of each attribute for the polygon under the mouse cursor.

In the screen shot above, the Signal Strength entry has been expanded to show the signal strength of each layer at the current mouse location. Also note that in this case the value displayed at the top level is the signal strength of the best server; in general the value shown at the top-level of an entry depends on the data source.

To expand a nested data source, click on the Expand entry icon. Expanded entries can be collapsed by clicking on the Collapse entry icon.