diff --git a/UI/SpecialVisualizations.ts b/UI/SpecialVisualizations.ts
index edc6f730bf..7927e03b51 100644
--- a/UI/SpecialVisualizations.ts
+++ b/UI/SpecialVisualizations.ts
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ import Title from "./Base/Title";
 import Table from "./Base/Table";
 import Histogram from "./BigComponents/Histogram";
 import Loc from "../Models/Loc";
-import ShowDataLayer from "./ShowDataLayer";
-import Minimap from "./Base/Minimap";
 import {Utils} from "../Utils";
+import BaseLayer from "../Models/BaseLayer";
 
 export default class SpecialVisualizations {
 
@@ -129,7 +128,6 @@ export default class SpecialVisualizations {
                         return features
                     })
                     const properties = tagSource.data;
-
                     let zoom = 18
                     if (args[0]) {
                         const parsed = Number(args[0])
@@ -137,7 +135,7 @@ export default class SpecialVisualizations {
                             zoom = parsed;
                         }
                     }
-                    const minimap = new Minimap(
+                    const minimap = SpecialVisualizations.constructMiniMap(
                         {
                             background: state.backgroundLayer,
                             location: new UIEventSource<Loc>({
@@ -149,9 +147,9 @@ export default class SpecialVisualizations {
                         }
                     )
 
-                    new ShowDataLayer(
+                    SpecialVisualizations.constructShowDataLayer(
                         featuresToShow,
-                        minimap.leafletMap,
+                        minimap["leafletMap"],
                         State.state.layoutToUse,
                         false,
                         true
@@ -160,7 +158,6 @@ export default class SpecialVisualizations {
 
                     minimap.SetStyle("overflow: hidden; pointer-events: none;")
                     return minimap;
-
                 }
             },
             {
@@ -366,6 +363,12 @@ export default class SpecialVisualizations {
 
         ]
     static HelpMessage: BaseUIElement = SpecialVisualizations.GenHelpMessage();
+    static constructMiniMap: (options?: {
+        background?: UIEventSource<BaseLayer>,
+        location?: UIEventSource<Loc>,
+        allowMoving?: boolean
+    }) => BaseUIElement;
+    static constructShowDataLayer: (features: UIEventSource<{ feature: any; freshness: Date }[]>, leafletMap: UIEventSource<any>, layoutToUse: UIEventSource<any>, enablePopups?: boolean, zoomToFeatures?: boolean) => any;
 
     private static GenHelpMessage() {
 
diff --git a/index.ts b/index.ts
index 83abe95d48..ccba3d5ac0 100644
--- a/index.ts
+++ b/index.ts
@@ -16,10 +16,19 @@ import CountryCoder from "latlon2country"
 import SimpleMetaTagger from "./Logic/SimpleMetaTagger";
 import Minimap from "./UI/Base/Minimap";
 import DirectionInput from "./UI/Input/DirectionInput";
+import SpecialVisualizations from "./UI/SpecialVisualizations";
+import ShowDataLayer from "./UI/ShowDataLayer";
+import * as L from "leaflet";
 
 // Workaround for a stupid crash: inject some functions which would give stupid circular dependencies or crash the other nodejs scripts
 SimpleMetaTagger.coder = new CountryCoder("https://pietervdvn.github.io/latlon2country/");
 DirectionInput.constructMinimap = options =>  new Minimap(options)
+SpecialVisualizations.constructMiniMap = options => new Minimap(options)
+SpecialVisualizations.constructShowDataLayer = (features: UIEventSource<{ feature: any, freshness: Date }[]>,
+                                                 leafletMap: UIEventSource<L.Map>,
+                                                 layoutToUse: UIEventSource<LayoutConfig>,
+                                                 enablePopups = true,
+                                                 zoomToFeatures = false) => new ShowDataLayer(features, leafletMap, layoutToUse, enablePopups, zoomToFeatures)
 
 let defaultLayout = ""
 // --------------------- Special actions based on the parameters -----------------