Toolbar buttons

Button

Description

Workspace

When clicked, opens a list that contains options for creating, opening, saving, sharing, and deleting workspaces.

Show/hide sidebar

Shows or hides the Sidebar (the Workspace and Properties panels).

Export current image

Exports the image currently shown in the Image window. The exported image is saved in the default format (JPEG, GIF, or PNG).

Save a link to a current location

Allows you to email a URL for a Pictometry Online location to another licensed Pictometry Online user. When the other user logs on to Pictometry Online, the emailed URL is automatically loaded and the image of that location is shown in the Image window.

Pan tool

You can use this tool for a few tasks: After activating the Pan tool, you can:

- Pan the image or road map by dragging.

- Select an annotation by double-clicking it.

- Center a location in the Image window by double-clicking that point.

- End drawing mode by double-clicking the last point when using the Line, Shape, or Circle tools.

- Activate drawing mode by double-clicking a line, shape, or circle so you can change the annotation. For example, you can move a line's vertices, add segments to a line annotation, or move a circle annotation.

When you double-click an annotation with the Pan tool, its name is highlighted in the Workspace panel.

The SPACEBAR temporarily activates the Pan tool while a measurement or annotation tool is active. This is helpful when you've already activated a tool, but need to pan the image before using that tool.

Distance Tool

Measures the distance between two or more points in an image. The distance is shown in the Status Bar.

To create a vertex when measuring polygons, press the V key. To measure freeform lines, hold the ALT key.

Height Tool

Measures the height of a building or an object in an image, starting from the ground.

Area Tool

Calculates the area of a shape in an image. (You can use the same keys as the Distance Tool for drawing freeform lines and vertices. When you use the "V" key, the tool automatically closes the polygon after you release the mouse button.

Elevation Tool

Gives the elevation above sea level of the point you click in an image. The elevation is shown in the Status Bar.

Location Tool

Shows the coordinates of a location you click in the image. The geographic coordinates for the point you clicked are shown in the Status Bar.

Bearing Tool

Measures the bearing (the orientation from True North) of an angle you outline in the image. Pressing CTRL draws an additional line and displays the relative angle between the two lines.

Pitch Tool

Measures the area and pitch of a roof in an Oblique image.

Extract Tool

Lets you draw a rectangle around a portion of the image and export that portion to a file. The file is saved in the default format (JPEG, GIF, or PNG).

Image Tool

Lets you click a location of interest and centers that point in the Image window. The point is marked with a crosshair.

marker

Lets you annotate the image with an icon.

Text tool

Lets you annotate the image with text.

Line tool

Lets you annotate the image with a line.

Shape tool

Lets you annotate the image with a shape.

Circle tool

Lets you annotate the image with a circle.

GIS Query tool

Highlights the parcel of land associated with the location you clicked in the image.

Line color

Opens a color chart from which you can select a default color for text and line annotations and for the outline of circle and shape annotations.

Fill color

Opens a color chart from which you can select a default color to fill shape and circle annotations.

Line weight

Opens a chart from which you can select a default line thickness for line, shape, and circle annotations.

Clear temporary annotations

Removes from the image and road map temporary annotations that result from using measurement tools or the GIS Query tool.