New in PhotoMapper Desktop 10 (Feb 22, 2013)
- New user interface
- The entire graphical interface has been reworked and the control elements have been simplified and reduced in number. The tool bar now only contains three elements. The program is largely controlled through windows context menus, which makes handling very simple and intuitive.
- Add photos by Drag&Drop
- The image management in PhotoMapper Desktop 10 is automatic. Photos can simply be added to ArcMap using drag & drop. In order to do this, select the photos in any file explorer and then drag them into the Thumbnail Viewer of the PhotoMapper Desktop 10. By erasing a picture in the Thumbnail Viewer, the complete dataset is removed.
- Display of the photos by mouseover function
- The new MouseOver function makes working with the map even faster and more comfortable. When moving the mouse over the location of a picture in the map, the images are displayed dynamically.
- Adopting attribute data selectively out of the EXIF Header
- The EXIF header of a picture contains much information, not all of which is needed by every user or for every project. For the sake of clarity, PhotoMapper Desktop 10 makes it possible to select the exif tags to be adopted during the data import.
- File-based Geodatabase instead of personal Geodatabase
- The storage format used by PhotoMapper Desktop 10 is the File-Based Geodatabase introduced with ArcGIS 9.2. Unlike the Access-based Personal Geodatabase used up to now, the File-Based Geodatabase is set in a file structure, which means, the File-Based Geodatabase is a directory in which the data layers are saved as files.
- The new data format offers a higher performance, does not depend on the operating system and allows a much bigger file size than the Personal Geodatabase. Besides, it is possible to compress and encode the files. The Personal Geodatabase continues to be supported.
- Adding photos to existing file-based Geodatabases
- The EXIF header of a picture contains much information, not all of which is needed by every user or for every project. For the sake of clarity, the PhotoMapper Desktop 10 makes it possible to select the data fields to be adopted during the data import.
- Direction indicator
- Through the compass module of the Ricoh G700SE / Caplio 500 SE, there are now 2 directional values included in the EXIF area. Just like before, the direction of movement is recorded and stored in the image file. A new feature is the direction ascertained by the compass. This directional value indicated the exaction direction in which the picture was taken. Through the expanded settings, PhotoMapper Desktop 10 enables you to use the compass direction as well as the direction of moving for the images' display of direction. This is especially important when photographing with cameras which do not dispose of the compass module yet.
- PDF Photo-Report
- Through its Wizard functionality, his tool offers a comfortable and fast possibility of exporting your photos including the attributes you want to in an appealing layout as a PDF file. Through the universal character of the PDF format, the data transfer is no longer a problem.
- Thumbnail Cache
- PhotoMapper Desktop 10 v. 4.1.1 introduced a thumbnail cache function for a faster access to already compiled image layers. During the import process a cache will be built which will then be accessed by PhotoMapper Desktop 10 as soon as you want to load your images again. You yourself define where the cache will be created and how much storage capacity is allocated. You may modify the settings by selecting Menu > Tools > Options > Thumbnail Cache from the menu.
- GPS track import
- PhotoMapper Desktop 10 now offers the possibility of importing tracklogs in different formats and display them as line features. Additional import settings concerning the arrangement of the line feature facilitate later use.
- Saving location information in the photos
- PhotoMapper Desktop 10 allows you to locate not georeferenced photos later and write back the position inormation in the EXIF section of the photos. This location information will remain independent from the GIS layer. When sharing the photos with others, now you just need to pass the photos. The position is already included in the photo itself.
- Integration of Photomapper Server Layer
- With version 4.1.1 the possibility of integrating photos from PhotoMapper Server is implemented. wurde die Möglichkeit geschaffen Photos aus PhotoMapper Server (v. 1.1.7 and above) zu integrieren. Also read "Integration of PhotoMapper Server layer in ArcMap"