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4-6. Mutually exclusive layers

For data like land cover, it only makes sense to display one layer at a time. Overlapping land cover maps hide each other and make the map hard to read. You can prevent this by adding the layers to an exclusivity set: when a user switches on one layer in the set, the others are switched off.

  1. On the Layers tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Exclusivity Sets section. Enter landcover as the set name and select the + button to add it.

    Add button highlighted in Exclusivity Sets

  2. Scroll back to the Land Cover group. On the first World Cover layer, select the edit (pen) icon from the bank of icons at the top right of the layer card.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the layer editing page and, in the Exclusivity Sets section, tick the checkbox for landcover.

  4. Save the layer, then repeat steps 2 and 3 for each of the other layers in the land cover group.

  5. Export your configuration to save the exclusivity set.

  6. Use Preview to check the result: switching on one World Cover layer should switch off any other layer in the landcover set.