How to Show and Hide County Lines on a Google Maps App

When it comes to foster care and child welfare services, location plays a crucial role in improving outcomes for children and youth in care. Placing them close to their community of origin can be beneficial, but only in some cases. To help caseworkers better understand where children are placed, where available homes are, and more, Binti provides an embedded map functionality with data points. One key feature is the ability to show and hide county lines on a Google Maps app.

To do this, you can use KML layers, which proved to be a great alternative for us when we needed to find a replacement for Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables was previously used by Binti to display county line boundaries but is now deprecated and no longer functioning.

In the embedded map functionality provided by Binti, you can easily hide or show county lines by following these steps:

1. Open the Basemap Gallery icon in the title bar of iMap.

2. Click on one of the map thumbnail images to change the basemap that displays in the background of your map view.

You can also display or hide layer groups and individual layers by clicking the check boxes next to their names in the Layer List icon in the title bar of iMap.

In addition to KML layers, there are several other options available for displaying county boundaries. For example, you can use OpenStreetMap, a third-party basemap that provides hillshade and aerial photo imagery.

With these features, caseworkers can get a better understanding of where children are placed, where available homes are, and more. This information is important in foster care because it helps improve outcomes for children and youth in care by placing them close to their community of origin.

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