Such surge has been mainly catalysed by the proliferation of large-scale imagery platforms, advances in computer vision and machine learning, and availability of computing resources. The user can copy the coordinates by clicking on them or add them to a route by clicking “Add point to route”.Street view imagery has rapidly ascended as an important data source for geospatial data collection and urban analytics, deriving insights and supporting informed decisions. Right clicking on any point in the map will open a pop-up with the exact coordinates of that point.

Coordinates – can be copied by clicking on them Ĭlicking on “Geozone details” will open the Geozones panel with detailed information about the geozone.

The tooltip contains the following information: Clicking a geozone marker will display a information tooltip about the geozone. When the user is selecting a geozone from the side panel, the map will auto zoom, to fit all the selected geozones on the screen. Geozones are marked by blue markers, balloon shaped geozones are POI, while hexagons are polygonal geozones. Once selected, geozones will now be displayed on the map, regardless whether the geozones panel is open or not. Here the user can select to show or hide any of the available Geozones on the map.

An example with a description is provided further below.Īs mentioned in the previous table, clicking the “Geozones” button will open a side window as shown below. Clicking this icon will expand the right side of the screen, where a list of all existing geozones for the current user is located. Moving the mouse over the highlighted area will display its size. The user can move these dots (click & drag) to change the measuring area (After moving a dot, a 'Undo' button appears, clicking which allows to return the dot to the previous position). Once the dots are connected, the covered territory is highlighted and additional perimeter dots appear. While it is activated, the user can mark a territory on the map (similar to how geozones are marked), by connecting several dots.

Clicking this icon activates the measuring tool. Routing & Tasks menu is described in a separate section. Clicking this icon will open the routing & tasks menu on the left side of the screen.

Green and similar colors indicate low traffic intensity, while Red and darker colors indicate high traffic intensity. This function display traffic intensity (in places where this information is available) by displaying colored lines on the map. To activate this function, simply click the icon (This function works only on the Hybrid or the Street map). To exit Google Street View, the user must click the grey arrow located at the top right side of the screen. To use Google Street View, click and hold this icon and then frag the icon to the street you want to observe. Street – Display Google street mapping without satellite imaging.īuttons to 'zoom in' or 'zoom out' of the map.Hybrid – Displays Google satellite image map with added street markings from street mapping.Satellite – Displays Google satellite image map without marking streets.The user may choose out of four map types: The currently displayed map will be displayed on top.

Switching between them is easy, simply click on the stacked maps on the lower right part of the map. This can either be “OSM” ( default option) map of the world, or Google world map. Currently a selection of two map sources is available.

Street view ruler tool