Creating location hierarchy
In this article, users will learn how to create a location hierarchy and its importance.
What is location hierarchy?
Location hierarchy is the process of assigning a group of locations (children) based on a status or category to an area (parent). By assigning a Parent to Child relationship between features, Location Hierarchy is created.
This hierarchy becomes the structured relationship between locations.
For example, Venue > Area > Building > Level > Units / Sections / Transitions.
This creates an address, allows logical wayfinding to a location and also unlocks the ability for controls and grouping of locations.
PAM Parent to Child Feature Type Rules
In order to create a logical hierarchy of locations, PAM has set in place rules to which locations can have children (refer to the flow above), these are:
Feature Type | Children |
|---|---|
Venue (e.g. District / University) | Area (e.g. Hubs, Sites, Zones) |
Area | Building (e.g. Physics Building) |
Building | Level (e.g. Ground Level) |
Level | Units (e.g. Room) |
Creating Location Hierarchy
Steps
1. Select a location on your map
2. Go to Children and select all child locations within the Parent (Area)
The feature type hierarchy within PAM is mentioned above
3. Save changes
4. It is important to create the location hierarchy as it creates the relationship of locations within the PAM eXplorer map, and is used as our addressing mechanism.
For example, Wright Hall Building (Level) is in Barry Hub (Area)
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