Opening a Location & Data Viewer Overview
Overview
Click any location card from the home screen to open it in the Data Viewer — Soarvo's interactive 2D/3D map environment where you explore, measure, and annotate your geospatial data.
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On mobile: This article covers the web portal Data Viewer. Mobile users open the same locations through the Soarvo Mobile app — see
Soarvo Mobile App Overview.
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Screenshot:
Shows: Data Viewer — full screen with all 4 panels
① Top-centre nav ② Layers panel ③ File upload panel ④ Measure panel ⑤ Project Features panel
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Shows: Data Viewer — full screen with all 4 panels
① Top-centre nav ② Layers panel ③ File upload panel ④ Measure panel ⑤ Project Features panel
Key Panels and Controls
Element
Description
Home Button
Return to the home screen
Reset View
Resets the map to its starting position
Panel Button
Toggle which panels are visible on screen
Layers Panel
View, show, or hide loaded data layers
File upload panel
Upload files and monitor processing status (titled "Upload files now")
Background maps button
Open the
Background Layer picker (inside the Layers panel) to switch basemaps, enable Additional Layers, or add WMS sources
Measure Tools
Take distance, area, and volume measurements
Project Features panel
Create and manage feature types; digitise points, lines, and polygons. Includes a built-in search.
Search (in Project Features)
Filter feature types by name in the Project Features panel
Background Layer
Click the Background maps button inside the Layers panel to open the Background Layer picker. From here you can switch basemaps (Aerial Imagery, OpenStreetMap Standard, OpenStreetMap Light, OS Open Data Standard, OS Open Data Light, Black, White), enable Additional Layers (overlay multiple basemaps with adjustable transparency), and use Add WMS to attach a custom WMS source.
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Screenshot:
Shows: Data Viewer — top-centre navigation
Home, Reset View, and Panel Visibility live above the map.
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Shows: Data Viewer — top-centre navigation
Home, Reset View, and Panel Visibility live above the map.
2D vs 3D Mode
Mode
Best for
2D
Orthomosaics, GIS layers, shapefiles, top-down feature mapping
3D
Point clouds, 3D meshes, terrain, volume measurements