Panoramic Measuring

Full Video Walkthrough #

Panoramic Photo Pane Measurements Guide #

Distance, height and slope measurements can all be taken directly in the photo pane on real-world features.

When taking a measurement, click on the desired option and Illuminate Mode will be temporarily enabled for the current panoramic photo. The intensity imagery you see while measuring is a 2D represantation of the underlying 3D point data that is shown in the pointcloud pane.

Once this screen is showing, follow the instructions below specific to each type of measurement:

Point #

• Click anywhere in the panoramic photo to place a point and see the real-world coordinates of the point. Right-click anywhere to exit measuring view.

Distance #

• Click to begin the measurement, and left-click to add points to create line segments. Once the line segments cover the desired area to measure, right-click to exit the measuring view.
• The length shown will span from the first clicked point to the last clicked point, passing through every other clicked point.

Height #

• Click a point to begin the measurement, and click the final point to measure. The difference in height between the two points will appear.
• Right-click anywhere to exit measuring view.

Slope #

• Click a point to begin the measurement, and click the final point to measure. Both the slope and distance between the two points will appear.
• Right-click anywhere to exit measuring view.

Erase #

• To erase any existing measurements, click this tool and click on the measurement.

• Right-click to exit the erase tool.

Edit #

• To edit any existing measurements click on this tool and click and drag any existing points of a measurement.

• Point measurements can be moved along with points that make up distance, height and slope measurements.

• To exit the Edit tool, right-click anywhere on the panoramic photo pane.

Menu #

• Use this tool to manage existing measurements in the panoramic photo viewer. Here is an example of the Measurements menu with three measurements in place:

• The Clear All button will clear all existing measurements. Once clicked, a confirmation window will appear to confirm the deletion.

• The visibility of measurements can be toggled on and off two ways:

  • The Hide All checkbox will hide all existing measurements in the panoramic photo viewer.
  • The icon next to each measurement controls the visibility individually. The icon means the measurement is visible and means the measurement is not visible.

• In the menu for each individual measurement there is a focus checkbox that when clicked will move the panoramic photo viewer to focus on that measurement.