Explore

An interactive map for navigating sites, devices, and grid elements

Texture Explore brings together all of your telemetry data sources, GIS data, and grid context — all in one place.

Explore lets you view your grid and customers on a map, while also asking questions about the data. Filter, save views, search, export, and discover on a single pane of glass. Explore gives you rich context to answer questions quickly, without having to open other applications and systems. It's built for the speed of operations.

Why Explore?#

Explore gives operators a single canvas to:

• See devices and grid in context — clusters of sites and devices on top of the distribution network.
• Drill from an alert to a device — clusters are color-coded by alert severity; click through to drill down to the exact site or device.
• Build and reuse views — filter to a subset, save it, and return to it.
• Export point-in-time data — switch to a table and download a CSV that respects your filters.
• Answer questions in one place — handle a whole workflow without switching systems.

The three layers of control#

Explore separates three concerns on purpose, which gives it the flexibility to power maps, lists, and detail views from one framework:

1. Filters — which data you're working with. Filters scope everything below them. Whether you're on the map or in a list, you're always looking at the subset the filters define.
2. Map layers — what's displayed on the map. A separate control (lower-left) toggles which layers are drawn, independent of the filter set.
3. Info panel — what you're currently looking at. The panel summarizes the current selection as an overview, a list, or a detail view.

Optimize Explore with rich data sets. Depending on what data you've uploaded to Texture, some of these views may not be available to you out of the box. Contact your Texture Implementation team to learn how to enable layers within Explore.

Getting to Explore#

Open Explore directly, or click any cluster on the homepage to jump straight into Explore focused on that group.

Clusters & icons#

Sites and devices are merged geospatially and shown as clusters. By default, clusters are color-coded by alert severity — red for critical, yellow for warning — so you can see where attention is needed at a glance. Hovering a cluster shows how many of each device type it contains.

Each device and grid element has an icon. A reference legend:

Map layers & zoom#

Grid elements appear progressively as you zoom in, which keeps the map readable. At low zoom you see only the large three-phase trunk lines, giving a sense of where the backbone runs; transformers and finer elements appear at higher zoom levels. The zoom thresholds are configurable. Layer visibility and basemap choices are saved per user (in the browser).

Filtering#

Filters scope everything below them, and active filters show as removable pills. You can combine device attributes, tags, and program membership, and you can filter grid elements directly — for example: substations 28 and 19, phase-A lines only, transformers above a rated kVA, or poles over 20 ft not inspected in two years. The map layers reflect the filter set.

Saved views#

Save a filtered configuration as a view to return to it later. You can duplicate, rename, and delete views. Saved views are scoped to your user profile today; organization-wide views are a natural next step.

Table / list view & export#

Switch from the map to a table to see the current selection as rows with the columns you choose, then export a CSV. The export is a point-in-time snapshot that respects your active filters. Columns are drawn from the entity's own fields; joined/synthetic columns (for example, an associated contact) can be added deliberately where needed.

Search#

Search spans your entire workspace, so you can go straight from a name or ID to the site, device, or grid element you need. It sits above your filters by design — you'll find what you're looking for even when it's outside your current view, without having to clear filters first. That makes it the fastest way to answer an in-the-moment question, like locating a customer's site the instant they call.

Detail panel#

Selecting any element opens a detail panel right beside the map, so you can dig into a site, device, or grid element without losing your place. Resize it from a quick glance to a full read, and you'll see the same rich detail — telemetry, status, and related context — that you'd get on the element's full page. It keeps investigation fast: click, inspect, and move on, all in one view.