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Scope
Key features
The Orbit’s free SDK gives you the tools to build a plugin that connects a 3rd party application with the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer. The connection is a two-way communication set up with WebSockets technology which enables synchronizing, augmenting, enriching and integrating datasets at both sides.
Synchronize views
Focus the Viewer to a location the user picked in the 3rd party application. This is also possible the other way around.
Augment the data in your 3rd party application
Overlay vector data representing the 3D data in the 3rd party application. These vector data are the photo positions of a run, the bounding box of the run, the location and orientation of the images that are opened, and even the current measurement of the Viewer.
Enrich existing external datasets
Next to visualizing measurements from the Viewer inside the 3rd party application, it’s also possible to save these as features in an external dataset opened in the 3rd party application.
Integrate external data in the Viewer
Data features opened in the 3rd party application can be added to the Viewer as a separate resource, using the SDK.
Easy to run environment
The Viewer is opened in a tab in the user's browser. Apart from an up-to-date browser and the conditions to run the 3rd party application, there's no need for special requirements to use a plugin made with the SDK.
There is one SDK reference that can be implemented on multiple platforms. Different implementations are available. At the moment we have an SDK for JavaScript, .NET, and Python.
Discover the possibilities
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