Add, Move, Change View

Each View has a 'View Mode' fly-out menu that can be used to identify the current View Mode and also change the View Mode. The available View Modes depend on the loaded Resources:

• 3D View
• Streetlevel Spherical View
• Streetlevel Planar View
• Aerial Planar View
• Aerial Oblique Planar View

Click one of the top buttons in the Sidebar marked with '+' icon to open a new view. Each button corresponds to a View Mode that is available in the workspace. Next, click on the Reference View or an existing View on the location the new View should be focused on.
The available reality data will define the available Open View options.
For more information on different View modes, see View Modes.

Move an existing View to a new focus location

Hover over the 'View Actions' fly-out, select the 'Move' action and pick another location by clicking on one of the Views or Reference View. For image views, it's possible to open a specific image by clicking on the footprint of the photo position itself.

To move all views at once, hold Shift in move mode and choose a new location. While holding Shift, 'move' in the View Action Fly-out will change to 'move all' to indicate this.

Change the View Mode of a View.

Hover over the 'View Mode' fly-out and choose the desired View mode to change the type of the existing View.

Focus other view in the workspace to the same detail.

Hover over the 'View Actions' fly-out and select the 'Focus' action to let all other Views in the workspace focus on whatever the view is looking at. The reference view has a small 'Focus' action button positioned left of the scale bar.

Add, Move and Focus Views trigger the request to Search and Open the “best” image.
Depending on the use case and data-type, different methods or configurations can be used.
The action consists of 2 consecutive steps

1. Get Candidates
2. Sort Candidates

Each Image View Mode has its own configuration in settings.

Find relevant photos around the Search Center (View Position or Focus Position).
Any photo becomes a candidate if

• Search Center is nearby the Photo Position (Search Radius).
• Focus Position is inside the field-of-view of the Photo Image (Planar images).
• Optional: Photo has direct Line-Of-Sight to the Focus Position (is not obstructed by a Mesh for example).

Searching for candidates is done in multiple steps.
With each step the search radius is increased.
Search ends when :

• At least one photo candidate is found (usually more), or
• The maximum search radius is reached.

Sort candidates by relevance, to get the best image and order alternative images.

Available sorting methods:

• Direction Offset
  Use the offset between the Candidate Direction (Photo Forward Direction with a fallback on the direction defined by the Photo Position and the Focus Position) and the Request Direction (3D View Position to Focus Position).
• Spatial Distance
  Use the distance between the Photo Position and the Search Center (View Position or Focus Position).
• Image Center Offset
  Use the number of pixels between the Image Center and the projection of the Focus Position on the Candidate Image.
• Direction Offset + Spatial Distance
  Sort by adding up the rank of each photo for both sorting methods.