Hi Herman,
My name is Shawn Kilburn and I am the Meridian team's technical writer.
It's not strictly true that we don't support customer map uploading. We do actually support this.
However, it is true that we gently encourage people to work with our Maps team to create Meridain maps, because creating a valid SVG Meridian map can be quite tricky.
Typically, if someone is creating a new map, we very strongly encourage people to contact our Maps team for assistance with this. You can reach them at hpe-aruba-meridian-poc@hpe.com.
For editing maps, we recommend that people download the map SVG file from the Editor and use that file. We also encourage people to use Adobe Illustrator, if possible, because we know that it works with our SVG formatting.
There are two ways to upload maps:
1) The Meridian admins can enable the Map uploading UI in the Meridian Editor.
2) Using the Maps API endpoint.
One thing to note about the Maps API endpoint is that the SVG validator is quite strict and it's quite easy to make a change to an SVG map that invalidates the map and prevents the map from being uploaded with the API.
To bypass the validator, append this to your API call:
?suppress_svg_errors=True
You can read more about Meridian mapping in these help articles:
http://docs.meridianapps.com/article/309-creating-meridian-maps
http://docs.meridianapps.com/article/484-using-the-maps-api
http://docs.meridianapps.com/article/363-map-layer-styling
If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.
Cheers,
Shawn
#Meridian