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Provide a way to select multiple photo points on the map and delete them

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08-18-2022 10:57 AM
Status: Under Consideration
Andrew-Bowne
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Frequent Contributor

Please provide a way to select multiple photo points on the map (click and drag a polygon or a lasso) and delete them.  Right now it's tedious to click on the points one at a time and delete them from the info window. It's also difficult to delete them from the photo dialog when you aren't sure spatially if it's the correct photo.

3 Comments
dozer
by Esri Contributor
‎09-22-2022 12:39 PM
Status changed to: Needs Clarification

Hi @Andrew-Bowne , thanks for the idea. Why is it helpful or necessary to delete photos from a map/spatial context, rather than from a photo thumbnail list context? With the recent changes in the photo upload workflow, you can now select and delete multiple photos at once from the thumbnail view.

Andrew-Bowne
by
‎09-26-2022 04:55 AM

Hi @dozer  - The new workflow for managing/uploading photos is much better than the previous workflow.  I completely agree with that.  However, having the ability to spatially select photos on the screen and delete them would be helpful in a few ways:

  • Thinning out photo overlap.  With merged missions, sometimes there is a lot of overlap between two missions.  being able to select and delete them on screen would be easier than sifting through the photo roll
  • Removing photos outside of a subject area.  Our subject area is surrounded on 3 sides by water.  It's easy enough to delete photos that are out over the water in the photo roll.  Being able to do it on-screen would insure that only the photos you want to delete are removed.  Sometimes, there are photos over water that we want to include.
  • Replacing photos in a given area.  Sometimes we have to refly a specific area of our subject area.  Being able to select photos on screen and delete an area and import new photos would be very helpful.  Doing it in the photo roll would be a tedious task when having to sift through thousands of photos.
  • Being able to select & disable or delete photos is available in Drone2Map and we used it often when we were using Drone2Map.  In order to provide feature parity between both platforms, it would be great to have this as part of SiteScan.

These are a few reasons that come to the top of my head.  I'd be happy to discuss further if you'd like.

 

Thanks!

dozer
by Esri Contributor
‎09-26-2022 08:23 AM
Status changed to: Under Consideration

Thanks @Andrew-Bowne for that clarification!