Import data earthmine webservice

It is strongly recommended to read first the general information about mobile mapping data in Orbit :

• Understand Mobile Mapping data in Orbit
• Manage your Mobile Mapping Runs

After completing the import the run will be available for the administrator to open or add to a mobile mapping projects.

Orbit supports the earthmmine Web-service. The earthmine panoramas and point cloud services can be used like other Mobile Mapping resources.

One must have an api and key from earthmine to get access to the earthmine services.
Orbit provides a dedicated import wizard to establish the connection and to enter the credentials.

Open the procedure “Import Run”
Procedures > Administration > Mobile Mapping > Import Run

The import procedure consists out of 2 consecutive wizards :

1. Create a new Orbit Run
2. Import data according the selected template
   The available steps in the second wizard depend on the selected import template / the type of mobile mapping data you are using.

Read Import Mobile Mapping data in Orbit > Create Run

Enter account details to access the online earthmine services.

Finish the procedure

This section describes the usage of Earthmine type local resources. No “Import Run” procedure is required. To create an offline Earthmine run in Orbit just copy the downloaded template to a chosen location and rename the folder with a name of your choosing.

If you want to use the local photo positions in Orbit, follow the steps below:

• File format : one asccii *.csv file
• File structure Rows : each timestamp is one record
• File structure Columns : separated by vertical bar | (char124), no headers, with exact order as the example below
• Value “GPS_time(s)” : GPS absolute time, seconds from January 6 1980, decimal notation
• Value of Coordinates : geographic (WGS84 DD)

1000022441926|6.59626632901|51.9178223605|29.815|174.039734|0.009144|1.013095|2013-04-06 11:28:40.040000|1.03544|-0.010529392629|0.006289480953|0.999924784331|3.122407631
1000022441927|6.59630052222|51.9177774018|29.876|144.865034|-0.780288|1.962503|2013-04-06 11:28:41.340000|1.03332|-0.03360479748|-0.016779566255|0.999294332888|3.14433697167
1000022441928|6.59635671285|51.917746436|30.01|127.522757|-1.106941|1.741513|2013-04-06 11:28:42.390000|0.987563|-0.026853114324|0.003109154463|0.99963455493|3.1409159334
1000022441929|6.59641719889|51.9177202702|29.889|124.627181|-0.576621|1.336117|2013-04-06 11:28:43.450000|0.994426|-0.008856171608|0.001001099101|0.999960282224|3.10581651837
1000022441930|6.59647271672|51.9176942726|29.771|127.926347|-0.949589|1.341093|2013-04-06 11:28:44.800000|0.952815|-0.005223368384|-0.020115798874|0.999784012204|3.02300866934
1000022441931|6.59652242231|51.9176632821|29.763|133.709344|-0.81743|1.455619|2013-04-06 11:28:51.710000|0.904695|-0.015645028373|-0.015427811072|0.999758578724|3.06261129479

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Steps to follow:

1. Replace Vertical bar character | (char124) by ; semicolon (Char59).
2. Add the following headers to the csv-file

   Pano-id;X;Y;Z;OrbitOrientationPan;OrbitOrientationRoll;OrbitOrientationTilt;timestamp

3. Drag and drop the csv-file in Orbit
4. Select all the points on the map.
5. Drag and drop the dataset locations.ovf from the runfolder (..Runfolder\panorama1\locations.ovf) in Orbit desktop.
6. Duplicate all selected objects to dataset locations.ovf using the “Duplicate Object” tool from the Edit Tools Sidebar.
7. Save the dataset and open the run.

If you want to use the local images, follow the description below:

• Copy the folder that is called “100” (containing the fragmented images) to the Run-folder in the folder ..\panorama1\original