Getting Started Tutorial (video)

This tutorial video covers how to:

• Navigate through the interface
• Change your views
• Navigate the layer panel
• Create a project
• Upload, edit and delete folders, layers or files
• and more

Video Overview:

Controls:

• On the right-hand side, you'll see a description of what the different tools do. To look around, you can left-click and drag to move the Earth.
• To zoom in, you can use the mouse wheel or the zoom buttons.
• If you want to rotate your view, you can hold down the center mouse button or hold down the control key and left-click.

Top Menu Bar:

• On the right side at the top, you'll see the home button, which takes you back to the main map.
• If you have a free account, it will give you the option to upgrade for more storage and more users.
• There's also the help button, which takes you to the support site, and the "My Team" button, which enables sharing if you create a team.
• You can edit/view your profile by click in on your user name located to the farthest right.

Map Controls:

• The search button allows you to search for addresses or landmarks, and the home button resets your view.
• view setup, where you can switch between globe view and planar view.
• The map icon shows you the available base maps.
• The navigation controls button shows you the navigation controls again, and the zoom controls are located here.
• The north compass rose/arrow indicates the north direction. You can click and drag in the area next to it to rotate your view like a joystick.
• To the right of that is the draw / edit button, which allows you to draw points, paths, or polygons. Paths and polygons have associated measurements.

View Menu:

• The view menu is the eye icon that is located at the bottom right. Click on it shows additional options.
• 3D view, switches from spherical earth to world terrain to show heights.
• Transparency button - makes the globe transparent for viewing underground data sets
• 3D buildings – turns on Open Street Map 3D buildings
• VR mode – turns into a split screen for using via mobile with Google Cardboard or similar VR headset. (only works with Android currently)
• Location

Left Menu – Layer Panel:

• On the left side, we have the left menu with layers, uploads, and support.
• Clicking layers shows all the files, folders, and projects. If there's no project, you can create one by clicking the plus button.
• You can name the project and add additional folders as needed. The project acts as container for all of your files and folders.
• The tricolon (three vertical dots) action button allows you to interact with projects, folders and layers with the following options:: add folder, share project, rename, upload to the current folder, move, add wms layer, download or delete.
• Once the files are uploaded, they appear in the layers folder. You may need to wait for processing depending on the file size.
• To zoom in on a layer, double-clicking on it, or use the tricolon action button and then click zoom to layer.
• Clicking on a layer on the globe opens the info panel on the right-hand side, and highlights the file in the layer panel.

Right Menu – Info Panel

The info panel provides information about the layer, allows you to add descriptions, tags, and media attachments.

The panel has the following sections

• Adjust altitude mode - adjust altitude by choosing absolute, clamp to ground or a custom altitude
• Style - change colors, transparency, and more
• Attributes - this is all of the metadata and information associated with this layer
• Make sure to save any changes made.