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What map layers are there, and where does the data come from?

Satellite, terrain and street maps, plus NDVI, soil, crop history, elevation, visit heat and drive time. Soil and crop history cover the US only.

Web appPhone app Updated November 13, 2026

The map shows your places with data layers on top. Soil, crop history and NDVI are shown inside your field boundaries.

On the web

Open Map and select Layers.

  • Base map: Satellite, Terrain and trails or Street.
  • Heat: Visits, NDVI or Soil.
  • Overlays: field boundaries, farms by last visit, Today’s route, Who can I reach today, Crops, Elevation and Metrics.
  • Color by: Map color, Type color or Last visit.
  • Your layers: Upload layer for your own GeoJSON or PMTiles files.

On the phone

On the Map tab or in a visit, tap Layers. Map layers has Visit heat, base maps Satellite, Outdoors and Standard, and Data layers: NDVI, Soil, Crops and Elevation. Back to plain satellite clears them.

Where the data comes from

LayerSourceCoverage
SoilUSDA NRCS SSURGO soil surveyUnited States
CropsUSDA NASS Cropland Data Layer, the last eight yearsUnited States
NDVISentinel-2 satellite imagery from the last 200 days, scenes under 40% cloudWorldwide
ElevationMapbox terrain, shaded with 10 m contoursWorldwide
Weather on a visitNational Weather ServiceUnited States
Who can I reach todayDrive time of 30 and 60 minutesWhere roads are mapped

Good to know

  • Layers describe the ground. They do not diagnose a problem.
  • 3D terrain is not available in this release.
  • Outside the US you see Weather not available for this location on visits.

Still need help?

Write to the PropelMapper team or book a call, and a person who builds the product will answer.