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html <figure> <img src='/img/components/thematic-earth/thematic-earth-1500x750.jpg' width='100%' /> <figcaption>Browser based whole-Earth thematic maps using locally hosted data layers.</figcaption> </figure> ##### Premium DOM Component # Thematic Earth ## A world of possibilities <address> <img src='/img/48x48/rwtools.png' /> by <a href='https://readwritetools.com' title='Read Write Tools'>Read Write Tools</a> <time datetime=2022-12-30>Dec 30, 2022</time></address> <table> <tr><th>Abstract</th></tr> <tr><td>The Thematic Earth mapping software brings interactive cartography to browsers, allowing authors to easily map location-based data, while giving readers new insight into complex data patterns and outliers.</td></tr> </table> ### At a Glance The Thematic Earth mapping software has features similar to GIS applications. It is well suited to publishers targeting today's modern browser-centric readership. Here's an overview of Thematic Earth's capabilities: <details> <summary>Capabilities . . .</summary> <ul> <li>Thematic Earth excels at displaying dot maps, symbol maps, choropleths, isopleths, and geographic feature maps.</li> <li>Thematic Earth scales from neighborhood maps to whole Earth maps — from 1 ᵐ⁄ₚₓ to 1,000,000 ᵐ⁄ₚₓ</li> <li>Users can explore, discover, and learn from maps through mouse interactions, touchscreen gestures, and floating feedback panels.</li> <li>Cartographers can use existing vector data layers encoded as common geoJSON files or as highly compressed GFE files for fast network access.</li> <li>Data specialists can rely on Thematic Earth to render geometries with minimal distortion, without projection hassles.</li> <li>Designers can visualize layers with sophisticated gradients, brushes and patterns using TESS, a declarative language following CSS syntax rules.</li> <li>Developers can use the component's JavaScript API to control the map's behavior, and use the component's event-based interface to respond to user interactions.</li> <li>DevOps can deploy Thematic Earth maps without costly enterprise GIS server infrastructure.</li> <li>Communities working on common areas of interest can develop and share spatial data, configurations, legends, styles, and scripts using Thematic Earth Packages.</li> <li>Thematic Earth maps can be embedded in both online websites and offline progressive web applications.</li> <li>Thematic Earth maps automatically resize to fit the browser's viewport, allowing it to be used on both mobile devices and large mega-pixel displays.</li> <li>Thematic Earth maps are sandboxed, allowing a single web page to independently host side-by-side maps.</li> <li>Thematic Earth is self-contained, relying wholly on modern web component standards that require no framework scafolding.</li> </ul> </details> ### Applications Many different types of maps can be created using the Thematic Earth software. <details> <summary>Types of maps . . .</summary> <ul> <li>Choropleth maps can use colors and patterns to shade administrative regions with banded data ranges, such as demographic patterns or political trends.</li> <li>Isopleth maps can use contours and shading to show geographic areas of equal value, such as rainfall distributions, urban heat bubbles, or ocean salinity levels.</li> <li>Dot maps can use filled circles with radii proportional to data magnitude, such as disease distributions, or health care availability.</li> <li>Symbol maps can use markers to represent distinguishing data features, such as biodiversity markers, ecological trouble spots, or anthropological artifacts.</li> <li>Geographic feature maps can use symbols, lines and shapes to tell stories about a place and its cultural and physical geography.</li> </ul> </details> ### Interaction Users can interact with Thematic Earth maps using mouse interactions, touchscreen gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and dockable menu commands. <details> <summary>Two-way interaction between user and map . . .</summary> <ul> <li>Reveal information about geographic features located under the mouse pointer by simply hovering over them.</li> <li>Click on features to build a selection list for customized feedback.</li> <li>Explore regions of the map by zooming the map's scale from 1 ᵐ⁄ₚₓ to 1,000,000 ᵐ⁄ₚₓ</li> <li>Focus on any point of the globe, even polar regions, reprojecting every map feature (on-the-fly) to the new point of observation.</li> <li>Interactively draw great circle routes between any two arbitrary places.</li> <li>Automatically show related data in dockable menu panels as the user interacts with the map.</li> </ul> </details> ### Composition Thematic Earth maps are constructed from spatial files, layers, legends, and symbol specifiers working together to render points, lines and polygons according to the cartographer's design. <details> <summary>Spatial files . . .</summary> Maps are constructed from spatial files containing records having unprojected geographic coordinates (simple latitude/longitude pairs). Thematic Earth supports eight types of spatial files: <ul> <li>geojson - RFC 7946 <a href='https://geojson.org/'>(geojson.org)</a></li> <li>topojson - GeoJSON with topology <a href='https://github.com/topojson/topojson'>(github/topojson)</a></li> <li>gfe - Geographic Feature Encoding</li> <li>ice - Indexed Coordinate Encoding</li> <li>tae - Topological Arc Encoding</li> <li>gfebin - Geographic Feature Encoding binary</li> <li>icebin - Indexed Coordinate Encoding binary</li> <li>taebin - Topological Arc Encoding binary</li> </ul> The <a href='https://hub.readwritetools.com/tasks/gcsio.blue'>GCS I/O </a> tool can assist with conversions. See <a href='https://medium.com/towards-data-science/2022-051-better-compression-of-gis-features-9f38a540bda5'>Better Compression of GIS Features</a> for how to get the fastest download times with large GIS files. </details> <details> <summary>Layers . . .</summary> Layers allow a single spatial file to be used in more than one way. Layers connect spatial files to: <ul> <li>Feature keys</li> <li>TESS identifiers</li> <li>TESS classnames</li> <li>Feedback menu options</li> </ul> </details> <details> <summary>Legends . . .</summary> Legend items provide map users with a visual directory of the symbols, colors and styles used by map features. Legend items are synchronized to TESS declaration changes. </details> <details> <summary>Symbol specifiers . . .</summary> Map features are rendered using class-based and identifier-based drawing rules declared by the map's designer. Rules are specified using Thematic Earth Symbol Specifier (TESS) declarations, which are CSS-like statements that specify classnames, identifiers, attributes, values, and at-rules. </details> ### Deployment The Thematic Earth mapping software is simple to deploy. Your web server. Your web page. Your spatial data. Any browser. <details> <summary>Dependency free . . .</summary> The Thematic Earth software uses standard custom element technology built into the HTML5 specification. Thematic Earth does not use third-party frameworks, scaffolding, libraries or shims. Thematic Earth maps can be embedded into any modern browser-based setting, whether it's a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. Thematic Earth maps can be hosted on plain web servers; they do not need a specialized remote GIS tile server. Spatial files are retreived and cached locally, and may be embedded in offline progressive web application (PWAs). </details> ### Technologies Thematic Earth maps are *configured* with HTML element attributes, *controlled* by JavaScript statements, *styled* with TESS declarations, and *shared* using plain-text packages. <details> <summary>Configuring, controlling, styling, sharing . . .</summary> <ul> <li>The <thematic-earth> HTML custom element has static attributes that configure the map's viewport size, scale, point of observation, time-lapse animation, and menu panel states.</li> <li>The software exposes a JavaScript API that allows autonomous control of the map's configuration, current state, and appearance.</li> <li>The software provides a JavaScript event interface that developers can use to provide synchronized feedback and external control.</li> <li>Thematic Earth Symbol Specifier (TESS) files allow map styling to be described with class-based and identifier-based visualization rules, and later refined with overriding feature-based rules.</li> <li>Spatial files, layer definitions, legend elements, configurations, and TESS declarations can be shared and reused through simple packages that can be created using plain-text editors.</li> </ul> </details> ### Features The Thematic Earth mapping software has unique features that set it apart from typical GIS software. <details> <summary>Features that stand out . . .</summary> <ul> <li>Thematic Earth is browser-based, taking full advantage of modern web component standards. By way of contrast, typical GIS software operates as either a desktop application or an enterprise server.</li> <li>Thematic Earth uses JavaScript, the native language of the web, for configuration and scripting. In contrast, typical GIS scripting uses the Python language, which isn't compatible with browsers.</li> <li>Thematic Earth uses on-the-fly coordinate projection, always keeping the map's point of observation, and viewport center, as the place of least distortion.</li> <li>Global datasets can be rendered without ever worrying about extreme distortion in the Arctic regions, or the "end-of-the-world" at the International Dateline.</li> <li>Spatial data is retrieved and cached locally, allowing maps to be used in offline situations, with no loss of interactivity.</li> </ul> </details> ### FAQs How does Thematic Earth stack up to other GIS software? What type of spatial data can be used? What are the front-end, back-end, and network prerequisites? <details> <summary>Questions and answers . . .</summary> <h4>Capabilities</h4> <dl> <dt>How does the Thematic Earth web component compare to desktop applications like ArcGIS or QGIS?</dt> <dd>ArcGIS and QGIS are both full fledged "geographic information systems" capable of digitizing new spatial data files and performing spatial analyses.</dd> <dd>The Thematic Earth web component is capable of visualizing spatial data online and styling spatial layers with symbolic specifiers, but not digitizing new spatial data or performing spatial analyses.</dd> <dt>How does the Thematic Earth web component compare to Enterprise GIS or Web GIS?</dt> <dd>Enterprise GIS refers to a centralized cloud-based delivery mechanism where large spatial databases are shared by multiple users and applications. Its complement is Web GIS, which refers to map software that runs in a browser and retrieves spatial data through an enterprise server connection.</dd> <dd>The Thematic Earth web component is similar to Web GIS software, but it works without a back-end enterprise server connection.</dd> <dt>How does the Thematic Earth web component compare to maps saved as PNG, JPEG or SVG images?</dt> <dd>Image files contain a frozen representation of routes and places within a predetermined bounding box.</dd> <dd>The Thematic Earth web component dynamically renders interactive maps, with variable scale and perspective, that users can freely pan, zoom, reposition, and rotate.</dd> <dt>How does the Thematic Earth web component compare to Google Maps or Apple Maps?</dt> <dd>Google Maps and Apple Maps are principally GPS navigation tools, allowing users to search and locate commercial, administrative, and natural features.</dd> <dd>The Thematic Earth web component is principally an information vizualization tool, allowing users to explore and compare layers of spatial data based on attributes and their values.</dd> </dl> <h4>Spatial data files</h4> <dl> <dt>Can Thematic Earth maps use <a href='https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/sitecore-archive/Files/Pdfs/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf'>ESRI shapefiles</a> (SHP)?</dt> <dd>Not directly. ESRI shapefiles are a collection of three or more files that together support many types of geometries. Many of these can be converted to <a href='https://geojson.org/'>geoJSON</a> files, which can be used by Thematic Earth, using Mike Bostock's <a href='https://github.com/mbostock/shapefile'>shapefile converter</a>.</dd> <dt>Can Thematic Earth maps use <a href='https://www.ogc.org/'>Open Geospatial Consortium</a> GeoPackage (GPKG) files?</dt> <dd>Not directly, however <a href='https://www.geopackage.org/'>GeoPackage</a> vector datasets (but not raster datasets) can be converted to geoJSON files using the <a href='https://gdal.org/download.html'>GDAL/OGR converter</a> from the <a href='https://www.osgeo.org/'>Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a>.</dd> <dt>Can Thematic Earth maps use Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ) files?</dt> <dd>Not directly. Most point, line and polygon features encoded in KML files can be converted to geoJSON using the Mapbox <a href='https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson'>toGeoJSON</a> Node.js converter. NetworkLinks and GroundOverlays cannot be converted to geoJSON.</dd> <dt>Can Thematic Earth maps use <a href='https://www.openstreetmap.org/'>Open Street Map</a> (OSM) Protocolbuffer Binary Format (PBF) files?</dt> <dd>Not directly. Selected areas of Open Street Map data can be downloaded from <a href='https://download.geofabrik.de/'>GeoFrabrik</a> and converted to geoJSON using Martin Raifer's <a href='https://github.com/tyrasd/osmtogeojson'>osmtogeojson</a> Node.js utility. (Open Street Map tiles are not supported.)</dd> <dt>Does Thematic Earth software support any binary spatial data file format?</dt> <dd> Three special binary file formats can be used to efficiently transfer spatial data: <ul> <li>gfebin - Geographic Feature Encoding</li> <li>icebin - Indexed Coordinate Encoding</li> <li>taebin - Topological Arc Encoding</li> </ul> Geojson files can be converted to each of these formats using the <a href='https://hub.readwritetools.com/libs/gcslib.blue'>GCSLIB</a> library or the <a href='https://hub.readwritetools.com/tasks/gcsio.blue'>GCS I/O</a> Node.js utility. </dd> <dt>Can the Thematic Earth software read map tiles from a GIS server.</dt> <dd>No, Thematic Earth retrieves and caches spatial data files in their entirety. Continuous data feeds from enterprise GIS servers, based on a scaling factor and a geographic coordinate, are not supported.</dd> </dl> <h4>Infrastructure</h4> <dl> <dt>How does the Thematic Earth software access spatial data?</dt> <dd>Spatial data files are pulled from remote servers using standard HTTP methods, cached in the user's browser using instructions specified in the response headers, and reused on subsequent page visits according to the HTTP caching specification (<a href='https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9111.txt'>RFC 9111</a>).</dd> <dt>Is there a central repository for Thematic Earth spatial data?</dt> <dd>There is no master storage vault for data; no fees for using public domain data; no restrictions on your own data. Spatial data files can be accessed from any HTTP accessible endpoint. The Thematic Earth software has built-in metadata features to allow proper attribution and citation of third party data.</dd> <dt>What are the back-end requirements for web pages with embedded Thematic Earth maps?</dt> <dd>Any HTTP web server will work, but HTTP/2 is strongly recommended.</dd> <dd>Spatial data files should be compressed, ideally with brotli (<a href='https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7932.txt'>RFC 7932 </a>) or GZIP (<a href='https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt'>RFC 1952</a>).</dd> <dd>Static spatial layers should be served with extended cache expiration dates. Spatial layers that are subject to frequent changes should be served with shorter cache expiration dates.</dd> <dt>What are the front-end requirements for web pages with embedded Thematic Earth maps?</dt> <dd>The user's browser must have JavaScript enabled. (No third-party frameworks, libraries, loaders, or bundlers are necessary.)</dd> <dd>The Thematic Earth web component is framework agnostic, and may be used with single page applications that use popular front-end frameworks like Angular, Vue, React, Svelte, etc.</dd> <dt>Can a Thematic Earth map obtain spatial data from third-party servers?</dt> <dd>Yes, Thematic Earth maps can be rendered from any remote endpoint that has correctly configured CORS to allow cross-domain requests from the original back-end server.</dd> </dl> </details> ### Hello World What do the declarations, markup, and initialization code look like for a Thematic Earth map? <details> <summary>HTML markup . . .</summary> The HTML markup for an interactive map of the world: <pre lang=html> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Hello World</title> <meta name=viewport content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1' /> <link href='./example.css' rel='stylesheet' /> </head> <body> <thematic-earth id=earth panels="interaction point-of-reference map-scale layers locate"></thematic-earth> </body> <script src='/node_modules/thematic-earth/element.js' type=module></script> <script src='./example.js' type=module></script> </html> </pre> <figcaption><code>example.html</code></figcaption> </details> <details> <summary>CSS declarations . . .</summary> CSS declarations to resize the map to fit the entire page: <pre lang=css> body { display: flex; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; } thematic-earth { height: 100%; width: 100%; } </pre> <figcaption><code>example.css</code></figcaption> </details> <details> <summary>JavaScript initialization . . .</summary> JavaScript to add map layers, add TESS declarations, and set the point of observation: <pre lang=javascript> var earth = document.getElementById('earth'); var promise = earth.waitOnLoading(); promise.then(() => { earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'sphere', tessIdentifier: 'earth', layerName: 'Earth' }); earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'gcs', tessIdentifier: 'land', layerName: 'Land', url: './seven-continents.gfebin' }); earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'night', layerName: 'Night & Day' }); earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'graticule', parallelFrequency: 5, meridianFrequency: 5, layerName: 'Lat/Lng Grid' }); earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'named-meridians', layerName: 'Prime Meridian & Dateline', namedMeridians: { "Prime Meridian": 0, "Intl. Dateline": 180 } }); earth.addMapItem({ spatialDataType: 'named-parallels', layerName: 'Equator', namedParallels: { "Equator": 0 } }); earth.addTessFile('./example.tess'); earth.setTangentLatitude(29.0); earth.setTangentLongitude(-24.0); }); </pre> <figcaption><code>example.js</code></figcaption> </details> <details> <summary>TESS declarations . . .</summary> Thematic Earth Symbol Specifier (TESS) declarations for the map: <pre lang=css> #earth { fill-color: #34a1eb; } #land { stroke-color: #333; stroke-width: 0.5; fill-color: rgba(240, 213, 125, 0.51); fill-gradient: radial; fg-saturation: 200; } .named-parallels['Equator'] { stroke-color: #f33; } .named-meridians["Prime Meridian"], .named-meridians["Intl. Dateline"] { stroke-color: #025bc2; stroke-width: 3; stroke-type: dots; } </pre> <figcaption><code>example.tess</code></figcaption> </details> ### Configuration Thematic Earth mapping software can be configured by adding optional attributes to the `<thematic-earth>` element tag. <details> <summary>Element attributes . . .</summary> <dl> <dt><code>geolocation</code></dt> <dd>Used to set the initial latitude, longitude and place of interest.</dd> <dd> <ul> <li><code>'off'</code> [default] set initial longitude, latitude and place of interest to (0.0, 0.0) and honor explicit <code>setTangentLongitude</code>, <code>setTangentLatitude</code>, <code>setPlaceOfInterest</code> API calls.</li> <li><code>'on'</code> use the browser's geolocation beacon to set initial longitude, latitude and place of interest.</li> <li><code>'timezone'</code> use the browser's current time to determine the map's initial longitude.</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><code>menu-state</code></dt> <dd>Used to set the initial state of the toolbar.</dd> <dd> <ul> <li><code>closed</code> [default] The toolbar menu should initially be collapsed.</li> <li><code>open</code> The toolbar menu should initially be expanded.</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><code>menu-corner</code></dt> <dd>Used to position the toolbar's location relative to the component's canvas area.</dd> <dd> <ul> <li><code>top-right</code> [default]</li> <li><code>top-left</code></li> <li><code>bottom-right</code></li> <li><code>bottom-left</code></li> </ul> </dd> <dt><code>shortcut</code></dt> <dd>Defines which keyboard function key activates the toolbar; something like F1, F2, F3, etc.</dd> <dt><code>panels</code></dt> <dd>Declares the presence and order of which menu panels to activate; a space separated list of these keywords:</dd> <dd> <ul> <li><code>none</code> [default] Hide all menu panels.</li> <li><code>interaction</code> Mouse gestures for manipulation and interaction.</li> <li><code>legend</code> Show the legend.</li> <li><code>season</code> Change the reference date.</li> <li><code>time-of-day</code> Change the time of day.</li> <li><code>equation-of-time</code> The variance between mean solar noon and actual solar noon.</li> <li><code>solar-events</code> The time of sunrise, solar noon, and sunset.</li> <li><code>geocentric-coords</code> The Earth's declination and right ascension for the current date and time.</li> <li><code>topocentric-coords</code> The position of the sun for the current location and time.</li> <li><code>point-of-reference</code> Change the longitude/latitude of the observation point.</li> <li><code>map-scale</code> Change the map's scale.</li> <li><code>space</code> Shift the space point of view.</li> <li><code>canvas</code> Shift the canvas origin.</li> <li><code>layers</code> Choose which layers to display.</li> <li><code>locate</code> Display longitude and latitude of mouse position.</li> <li><code>discover</code> Discover features a pointer position.</li> <li><code>identify</code> Identify underlying feature details.</li> <li><code>select</code> Highlight features.</li> <li><code>distance</code> Display distances along great-circle arcs.</li> <li><code>time-lapse</code> Rotate the earth at a set speed.</li> <li><code>snapshot</code> Capture and download an image of the map.</li> <li><code>metadata</code> Show map citations, data sources, software version, and licensing links.</li> <li><code>symbol-specifier</code> Interactive manipulation of Thematic Earth Symbol Specifiers.</li> <li><code>signals</code> Monitor system broadcasters and receivers.</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><code>package</code></dt> <dd>A URL pointing to a Thematic Earth Package, which defines the initial configuration, settings, data layers, legends, TESS declarations, and other packages to use.</dd> </dl> </details> ### Events Thematic Earth mapping software dispatches messages that JavaScript can monitor and hook into through the component's `addEventListener` method. <details> <summary>Element notifications . . .</summary> <dl> <dt><code>component/loaded</code></dt> <dd>Sent when the component is fully loaded and ready to be used. As a convenience you can use the <code>waitOnLoading()</code> method which returns a promise that resolves when the <code>component-loaded</code> event is received. Call this asynchronously with <code>await</code>.</dd> <dt><code>package/packageAdded</code></dt> <dd>Confirmation that a Thematic Earth Pacakge has been added to the catalog.</dd> <dt><code>catalog/layerAdded</code></dt> <dd>Confirmation that a layer has been added to the catalog.</dd> <dt><code>catalog/spatialFileAdded</code></dt> <dd>Confirmation that a spatial file has been added to the catalog.</dd> <dt><code>visualization/tessRulesAdded</code></dt> <dd>Confirmation that a TESS declaration file has been added.</dd> <dt><code>greatCircles/distanceFeatureAdded</code></dt> <dd>Confirmation that a great circle route has been added to the map.</dd> <dt><code>user/latitudeLongitude</code></dt> <dd>Response containing the geographic coordinates under the mouse pointer's current position.</dd> <dt><code>user/discoveredFeatures</code></dt> <dd>Response containing the list of features forwarded to the 'discover' menu panel when the user hovers over a map feature.</dd> <dt><code>user/identifiedFeatures</code></dt> <dd>Response containing the list of features forwarded to the 'identify' menu panel when the user <shift> clicks on the map.</dd> <dt><code>user/selectedFeatures</code></dt> <dd>Response containing the list of features forwarded to the 'selection' menu panel when the user <ctrl> clicks on the map.</dd> <dt><code>user/chosenFeature</code></dt> <dd>Response containing the list of features forwarded to the 'symbol-specifier' menu panel when the user <s> clicks on the map.</dd> </dl> </details> ### Beta Testing Program The Thematic Earth mapping software is currently being distributed through a Beta Testing Program. <details> <summary>Beta Testing Program licensing and cost . . .</summary> By downloading, installing or using this software you agree to be part of the Beta Testing Program. 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If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of the Agreement to be unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent possible to effectuate the intent of the parties and the remainder of the Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.</li> </ol> </details> </details> ### Installation Where to get the software, and how to activate your license. <details> <summary>Downloading and activating the software . . .</summary> <table> <tr><td><img src='/img/48x48/read-write-hub.png' alt='DOM components logo' width=48 /></td> <td>Documentation</td> <td><a href='https://hub.readwritetools.com/components/thematic-earth.blue'>READ WRITE HUB</a></td></tr> <tr><td><img src='/img/48x48/git.png' alt='git logo' width=48 /></td> <td>Minified source code</td> <td><a href='https://github.com/readwritetools/thematic-earth'>github</a></td></tr> <tr><td><img src='/img/48x48/dom-components.png' alt='DOM components logo' width=48 /></td> <td>Component catalog</td> <td><a href='https://domcomponents.com/components/thematic-earth.blue'>DOM COMPONENTS</a></td></tr> <tr><td><img src='/img/48x48/npm.png' alt='npm logo' width=48 /></td> <td>Package installation</td> <td><a href='https://www.npmjs.com/package/thematic-earth'>npm</a></td></tr> <tr><td><img src='/img/48x48/read-write-stack.png' alt='Read Write Stack logo' width=48 /></td> <td>Publication venue</td> <td><a href='https://readwritestack.com/components/thematic-earth.blue'>READ WRITE STACK</a></td></tr> </table> <h4 id=activation>Activation</h4> To activate your license, copy the <code>rwt-registration-keys.js</code> file to the root directory of your website, providing the <code>customer-number</code> and <code>access-key</code> sent to your email address, and replacing <code>example.com</code> with your website's hostname. Follow this example: <pre> export default [{ "product-key": "thematic-earth", "registration": "example.com", "customer-number": "CN-xxx-yyyyy", "access-key": "AK-xxx-yyyyy" }] </pre> <h4>Metadata</h4> <h5>Module exports</h5> <table> <tr><td>ES modules</td> <td>true</td></tr> <tr><td>Common JS</td> <td>false</td></tr> </table> <h5>Suitability</h5> <table> <tr><td>Browser</td> <td>API</td></tr> <tr><td>node.js</td> <td>none</td></tr> </table> </details>