Explore Ground View 360 and the point cloud

Ground View puts you inside 360° photos taken on the ground. The Point Cloud lets you rotate and recolor the full-density scan.

Ground View (360° panoramas)

Ground View places eye-height 360° panoramas on your map, captured on the ground when your project includes them. Ground View 360 is opt-in, so you'll only see it when we've enabled it for your project.

1. Open the Ground View (360) tab.
2. Click or tap a 360° pin on the map to drop into that spot. Pins close together group into a cluster with a count.
3. Drag to look around: a full circle, and up or down.
4. Scroll (or pinch) to zoom.
5. Jump between nearby panoramas to walk the site.
6. Use the panorama's zoom and fullscreen buttons for a closer look.

Point Cloud

The point cloud is the full-density 3D scan: millions of measured points you can spin, recolor and slice.

Moving around

• Orbit — hold left-click and drag.
• Pan — hold right-click and drag.
• Zoom — scroll.
• Recenter — press R, or double-click a point.
• Fly mode — press F (or pick Fly from the camera menu, top right) and fly with W A S D. Space and Shift move you up and down, Alt sprints, and scrolling sets your speed.

Recoloring the points

Use the color-mode controls in the bottom toolbar, or the number keys:

• 1 — RGB (true color)
• 2 — Intensity
• 3 — Height (color-coded elevation)
• 4 — Return Number
• 5 — Classification (e.g. ground vs. vegetation)
• 6 — Trajectory

Slicing and inspecting

• Clip — isolate one section of the cloud.
• Profile — take a cross-section to read heights and shapes along a line.

Press ? for the full list of point-cloud shortcuts, and H to hide the controls for a clean look (press it again to bring them back).

On a phone, a streamed, tiled point cloud opens in the browser. A large single-file cloud doesn't: the project's own team gets a download link there instead. To explore it, open it on a laptop or desktop.

Everything you measure here saves automatically and shows up in the other views too.