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1. Map Options Seis tanta Spherical des Cartesian mage Processing Windows Device Clipping all objects oO Windows Device Clipping no points text Erase Outside no points text Zoom Window Width O Map Scale Cursor Location E sl a 2 L T Degrees Decimal Degrees Minutes Seconds Miltary Grid Reference O Scroll Bars Autoscroll Smooth Test amp Labels Smooth Images Smooth Lines amp Borders rea P aaao palaa Image Processing gt J Enable Enhanced Rendering Smooth Text amp Labels None Smooth Images None Smooth Lines amp Borders None G stom IMAGING E WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 8 Click OK in both Image Processing dialog and Map Options dialog to accept changes 9 Now open the rotation tool selecting the Tools gt Rotate Map Window gt Rotate Map Window menu The Rotate Map Window dialog opens Click in Map Center to select the current map window center as rotation center To rotate the West image click in 902 to rotate the East image click in 2702 to rotate the South image click in 1802 Finally click in Rotate button After some seconds the map will show the image and the rest of the layers rotated in a clear mode Rotate Map Window Version 1 4 Rotation Points A 7023 40 6549 Rotation Angle In degrees clockwise from vertical Recenter m
2. DL BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in N Starting point w E was here 5 Ending point WAS ssssesesese Se Wgd TT Ending point e N was here i e 5 Bal Starting point a was here Be BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 7 Measuring height Use the Height Tool to measure the height of an object in an Oblique image Because orthogonal images are captured straight down the Height Tool doesn t apply to the continuous or Ortho view mode To measure height 1 Click the Height Tool Important Be sure to measure height by starting at ground level and moving upwards If the ground level starting point is not seen then estimate its location BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ay BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Finish measuring here Start measuring here 4 The measurement appears drawn in view 7 8 Measuring elevation Use the Elevation Tool to measure the elevation height above sea level of a point in an image To measure the elevation 1 Click the Elevation Tool 2 Click the point whose elevation to measure HM HM Ne IIIe ceruen dUDUGe Old WIT CV L ri 1068 33 rm e C gt f i a 7 d d Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 10 Measuring diagonal length Use the Diagonal Length Tool to measure the diagonal of a facade This tool is very useful for fireman anal
3. LEY ip Kar SEH Se SE ss EE ee L A d e Ge CH Ch Kl e e e C W e EEN e Before refreshing Vector layer Si B S dale cl aaam el e als 0 e EEN TOA e Wee oe WE ei a SET Ce amp n TI mf Tae ty A SS gt RS Ss re e e e WN S A WR trg D Oe A vr PPS LP w E NW 7 wer E lt Y S P E YY SEN f AA D E Ly IW RN Ys A e Y AN gt a gt e Se RS SE BY SS WI re ms A SS NSS x Ce SS wy G NREL ALA Sech 3 GE R RW i ett a KO ZS AR A gt S ek e SS H tt ate em x V et CN Yy N V Be n BU gle Met fag Dees Aen ee O OO eM Maer Ben NS m S as Sen Mtn ty Se Ge 4 el Peet ee a yn A Ze Ym BS H After refreshing Vector layer The Refresh overlays function cleans all the previous overlays adds again the layers t o BlomURBEX viewer and redraw again the vector data Each time a change is made to the Mapinfo map as adding new layers or features or modifying any feature in its geometry these changes are not shown immediately It is needed to re click again the Refresh overlays button 45 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Bay BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 12 3 Overlay and performance considerations To overlap geometries faster a combination of requests to BlomURBEX server and local interpolatio
4. BlomSHOT Connection S BLomSHOT U ger username Password eggeesee Server servemame ae BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Blom Local Library Library path C Data ESAVLA06 4 Click in the Manage licenses button to open the License Manager dialog In it click in the Add new license button and browse and select a valid license file If the file is correct the dialog will show the expiration date and will tag it as NEW license or OLD license But if it was invalid it will be tagged as Corrupted or Invalid license Contact with Blom Marketing BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 4 3 Manage the list of Datasources The rendering order of the Datasources in the viewer can be changed To that follow these steps 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2 Inthe dialog select BlomURBEX Datasources tab 3 Select the Datasource to modify in the Current loaded datasources list Click in the Up or Down buttons to move the datasource up or down in the list Also clik in the Remove button to remove the selected datasource The upper datasources are drawn on top of lower ones when they overlap Current loaded datasources Datasource priority blomurbex3dserve
5. Inthe dialog select Settings tab Select the desired units Meters or Feet Measurement units Meters Feet Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in For Oblique images remember to click near the base of buildings for more accurate coordinates 7 3 Measuring squared perimeter or distance Use the Distance Tool to measure perimeter the distance around the outside edge of an object or distances both in ortho or oblique views To measure perimeter by using a parallelogram or measure distances 1 Click the Distance Tool 2 Starting with one corner of the object click with the left mouse button Da BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 4 Measuring ground length Use the Ground Length Tool to measure a distance taking account of the relief of the terrain To measure a ground length 1 Click the Ground length Tool 2 Starting with one point in the view click with the left mouse button 3 Click again for each new vertex The outline of a polyline appears as new vertexes are added In oblique mode take in mind that a workaround to the server must be done in each vertex and the measure takes longer 4 When the polyline surrounds the distance being measured double click with left mouse button 5 The partial measurements and total length appears drawn in the view The distance is calculated using heights available in BlomURBEX server EES speit ell
6. Ss Ensure you are logged onto your computer with Administrator privileges Close all programs Execute the MSI file The BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo Setup Wizard will lead you through all stages of the setup process Click Next gt to begin installation The next screen displays the license agreement Please read this and if you accept the terms select the I Agree radio button Click Next gt to continue Click Browse to change the destination folder Click Disc cost to confirm that there is enough space to install Select in the radio buttons if BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo will be available to all users or just you in your computer Click Next gt to continue Click Next gt to start installation Finally click Finish to close installation wizard BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ay BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 4 STARTING WITH BLOMURBEX PLUG IN FOR MAPINFO 4 1 Setup the BloomURBEX Viewer plug in in Mapinfo To execute the plug in follow these steps 1 Open Mapinfo 2 Select the MapInfo menu Tools gt Tool manager 3 Click in Add tool button The Add Tool dialog box opens Type any name you want for BlomURBEX Plug in in the Title textbox Click in the button to search for the BlomURBEX MBx file you will have in the Plug in installation folder Type any description you want for BlomURBEX Plug in Then click OK to accept Add Tool S Title BlomURBE 4 0 Location SlomUARBEs
7. Viewer Export all views to image menu lets exporting the visible extent of the active views to a set of JPG files To export all current views to images 1 Pan in the views to display the extent desired 2 Click the File gt Export all views to image menu 3 Inthe Save as dialog that opens introduce the path and filename for the file The extracted image or images are saved with the filename specified If the BlomURBEX layout shows several views then several files will be created and all the files will be suffixed with a view number and orientation Also if a view is in ortho mode a world file JGW is saved for easy integration of the image in other GIS packages Export all views to image Start saving measurements Print all views Print all views preview Page setup Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 10 SAVING MEASUREMENTS BlomURBEX Viewer is able to notify when the user has made measurements in order to store this measures into any opened table in Mapinfo 10 1 Setting measurement savings To activate the measurement storage it is needed to complete two one time setup tasks It is needed to specify some options about the place where store the measurements and some options about the units and the projection to use in the case the measurements are locations To specify the options regarding the place to store measurements 1 Itis needed to have any map ope
8. have their geographic data in the same projection then they are leave as they are but if the layers have a different projection then MapInfo will re project data on the fly without changing original data sources If anew map is created and a projection is not defined for it then the map will have the projection of the first TAB added This on the fly projection may be a long time consumption process for raster data To avoid this re reprojection MapInfo offers a Image processing button in the Map Options dialog that allows activate or deactivate the on the fly re projection Ensure that the Image processing option is set to Always or Optimized to allow MapInfo re projection of raster data If a BlomURBEX WMS layer or any other raster layer is added to a MapInfo map and the Image processing option is set to Never resample images the map will change its projection to the projection of the new raster layer added This way it will be not needed to re project that is not allowed in the map options To return the map to the previous map projection if has changed it will be needed to change the Image processing option to Always or Optimized and change the projection to the previous as explained below Although BlomURBEX WMS services only support two projections WGS84 Lat Lon and Spherical Mercator and the useful for current release of MapInfo is only WGS84 Lat Lon it is possible to set up Maplinfo in orde
9. plug in4 0 0 for Maplnfo BlomUABEs Ma g Description ElomURBE Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Tool Manager Tools Loaded Autoload Autolabeler BE Catalog Browser Concentric Aing Butters Coordinate Extractor CoordS ye Bounds Manager Create Line By Length DBMS Catalog DBMS Count Rows in Table CIR Descriptions 5 Click OK in the Tool manager You will see now the Blom toolbar with several buttons This is a onetime setting From now on the BlomURBEX plug in will appear anytime inside Mapfinfo BlomURBEX x BlomURBEX Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in e BlomURBEX online services A central repository of all Blom data available trough online requests e BlomSHOT servers A copy of some Blom data in a dedicated server in the customer facilities e Blom Libraries A local copy of the Blom data for a city or a region workable as offline data Adding BlomURBEX as a Data Source 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2 Inthe dialog select BlomURBEX Datasources tab 3 Inthe tab select the sub tab BlomURBEX So eer BlomURBEX Connection Ae BLouMURRES User usemame Password eseese BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 2 Inthe dialog select BlomURBEX Datasources tab 3 Inthe tab select the sub tab BlomSHOT
10. ERY bitp demo Cubeuwerg com demacubeservs Demis WHS Server http daat dems nl mapserverrequest asp Genimap WMD Service http map genimap comGenimapwh Sy i Degas WMS DGM http w geoas net gqecas_ wma gelmap a GMap WMS Demo Server http ive diisolutions ca cgr binsmswms_ Land Register of Denmark WW bl S server http kort arealinto dk wrnie servicename la Microsoft TeraSernvver Map Server http heraserver usa com ogecapabilities ashy of Pitney Bowes Software Global WM Serwer hip dea mapinto com miwms Spatial Planning Department Wh S server http kort plansystem dk Awms servicename 12 Finally click OK in the Web Services Preferences dialog to accept changes 13 2 Adding BlomURBEX imagery as WMS ortho layer in Mapinfo Follow these steps Ox rT BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in It would be better to select any of the layers available under the Maps gt Maps Spherical Mercator group layer because these layers are returned faster from the server But current release of MapInfo Open WMS Table WHS Server Blom UrbEs Server kd server URL fatto ai bomarbes com w02 Geth ap Ausertok er eVERSION 1 1 WM Layers E Maps Li Ortho Images WGSR4 e Ej Maps weg Ortho Images W564 North Images wat O4 South Images Wa D4 H gd West mages Wand East Images wad Maps Spherical Mercator Ortho Images wi lt gt Style lt Default gt Ke North Images Coordinat
11. Optimized With any of this options checked MapInfo allows to change the projection of a map with raster layers If not a message warning appears blocking the projection change Map Options Map Unita Distance Area using Co Spherical Image Processing Pe E Image Processing Reprojection Using Resampling Method z Never Cubic Convolution Always Optimized Nearest Neighbor Enhanced Rendering L Enable Enhanced Rendering When a BlomURBEX WMS layer is added to a map if Image Processing is set to Never MapInfo will change the map projection matching it with the BlomURBEX WMS layer The reason for this change in the map projection is the Map options previously explained If the image processing option is set to never reproject then the map projection must match the raster layer projection If you detect 58 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Era BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in that MapInfo has changed the map projection check if the reason is this You can change again the map projection following the steps explained next 13 5 Changing the map projection with MapInfo options Each map in MapInfo has defined a projection To know the projection of a map select the menu Map gt Options In the Map Options dialog click in the Projection button to open the Projection dialog The projection selected in this dialog is the current projection defined for the map If the layers added to the map
12. RBEX Mapinfo Plug in Dual view Three views Four views Penta view rie a aE Kann 7 k T H L Yn SEKR About De SR Ee ee madrid 13 Biom 3s bon ate a Ze 18 07 2009 x d 14 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 5 VIEWING BLOMURBEX IMAGES The BlomURBEX Viewer is the window that shows BlomURBEX images To open an image is needed to select a location either clicking in the basemap in Mapinfo or introducing a known coordinates 5 1 Selecting location in Mapinfo 1 Open Mapinfo with a basemap 2 Open BlomURBEX Viewer if it is not as explained previously clicking in the button Open BlomURBEX window 3 Ensure that settings are correct as previously indicated 4 Resize and move application windows so they can be seen comfortably 5 Open any map data in Mapinfo The data can use any projection if it is in the EPSG list in the BlomURBEX Viewer options It is only needed to know the projection and to indicate this projection in the BlomURBEX Viewer settings dialog Remember when using different drawing files in Mapinfo with different projections to modify the options in BlomURBEX Viewer matching the active one Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Synchronized A E f Datefilter None b P l f EE i Show properties A FS A gt Edit bacelayer E Gi Edit tiled overlay layers Expor
13. SS BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD The leading provider of aerial imagery remote sensing and geospatial solutions Customer Support Document BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in User Manual Revision History REVISION HISTORY Revision Date Reason November 2010 Document for release 2 5 0 December 2010 Document for release 2 5 2 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Be BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD Contents CONTENTS 1 INIRODUC HON WEE 1 ZR INS ee 2 3 Installing BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo ccscscsscscsccsccccsccccsceccsceccecncsccnceccncescscees 3 4 Starting with BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo scsccscsccscsccccsccccsccccsceccscnccccnceccnceees 4 4 1 Setup the BlomURBEX Viewer plug in in AMopinfo 4 4 2 Addio DOCG SOUN OS EEN 5 Adding BIomURBEX as a Data Source 6 Adding BlomSHOT as a Data Source 6 Adding Blom Library as a Data Ee sicrsisissrsisaroiissenna s ineine ENEE NIRE TENERAN aT 7 4 3 Manage the list of DAtaSources ccccseecccneseeecssececseseseneeesesusecscsusesecsusestsusecsssusesecusestseeeesssesesenees 9 4 4 Setup the BlomURBEX Viewer basic options sececcseesecccsecscceseseceesescsusecscsseseseeecsssusesessesesssenecens 9 4 5 Changing language interface seccceceeeccecesecccsesececueececsusececsusesesusecsesusecssesesssusecsssusesessusestseeeees 13 4 6 Beefert ee TE 13 5 Viewing BIOMURBEX images scscsecscsccsccccsccccsceccscnccccnccccnceccsceccsceccscnceccncec
14. TeleAtlas streetmap 43 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Da BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 12 OVERLAYING VECTOR DATA BlomURBEX Viewer is able to overlay vector data from Mapinfo on top of BlomURBEX imagery both in Ortho and Oblique modes 12 1 Activating and deactivating vector overlays To activate or deactivate the vector overlays click in Overlay vector layers button in the BlomURBEX toolbar EH This setting is not saved for better performance initialization BlomURBEX Viewer always start with the setting uncheck It is needed to set it explicitly in each BlomURBEX Viewer session Overlying on top of oblique imagery may be a long time operation Be patient when overlaying a big number of features over oblique images Read below for tricks to improve performance 12 2 Refreshing vector overlays BlomURBEX LR ay When overlaying vector data in oblique imagery remember that vertexes of the geometries should match with the imagery at the ground level not at the roof level That is the reason of the apparent offset seen when overlapping over oblique imagery ae ma OM BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in IMAGING WORLD Dem gie el BS dell off s A In O ote Gu EE Geck d J PROA a R SS IF we k Lac weii ech Ef he eT Tm 7 2 4 Ra Ee SCD at SE d SE SL S e d G A e wer pee SN L tz ZE E oan rm Ve Gs Ge d Saal SS ES Ce y ad a a ada Ca a de s Ee Ze BE
15. West East and South orientations show the imagery by default in a weird way But this is correct These orientations are shown this way when the map has the north upwards To render the map in a kinder way the map should be rotated Follow the next steps for these cases 5 To rotate the map a free MapInfo tool will be used In MapInfo select the Tools gt Tool Manager Menu The Tool Manager dialog opens Select from the list of tools the tool named Rotate Map Window and check the loaded checkbox Click OK to accept changes The tool is added as a new menu in the Tools MapInfo menu option Tool Manager Tools Loaded Autoload Named Views North Arrow Overview Register Vector Utility Rotate Labels Rotate Symbols ScaleB ar Seamless Table Manager 4 Ta Add Tool Edit Tool Remove Tool WOOO JOST Description Rotate Map Window is a Maplnfo utility that enables you to rotate the 0 contents of the current map window a specific number of degrees It calculates and sets an Affine transformation for the map window Cancel Help 55 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 ma BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 6 Before using the rotate tool it is needed to set up some options for the current map to allow image re sampling With the map active select the MapInfo menu Map gt Options The Map Options dialog opens Click in the Image Processing button
16. ap window contents after rotation 10 This is the final rendering of the West image P Mapinfo Professional contrucs UrbExWest Map Ef B File Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options Map Window Help ID co 1 Hi Sl SES VM cb CH F a 4 D ig 5 d 7 e Web Services Zoom 0 3522 mi G Editing None Selecting None 57 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 13 4 Projection issues BlomURBEX WMS services are provided in two different projections WGS84 Lat Lon EPSG 4326 and Spherical Mercator EPSG 3785 Internally image data is stored in Spherical Mercator so this is the fastest option When the image is requested in WGS84 Lat Lon the BlomURBEX server re projects the image data on the fly in a slower process To speed this process an approximate affine transformation is executed For this reason the WGS84 Lat Lon projection only is available for the highest zoom levels with resolutions up to 150 meters per pixel With lower zoom levels higher resolutions the re projection process is not enough accurate MapInfo has options that controls if raster data present in the map should be re projected or not to avoid long time redraws of the map These options are located in the Map options dialog that opens the Map gt Options menu in the Image Processing button This button opens a new Image Processing dialog Ensure that the Reprojection option is Always or
17. apinfo It is possible to see the visible and total extent of the opened BlomURBEX images drawn in Mapinfo To do this follow these steps 20 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2 Inthe dialog select Linking tab Linking to GIS settings Synchronize all views Show visible extent Show image total extent Projection in the map of the GIS Mercator Spheric EPS5G 3765 Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in To synchronize only several views with the Mapinfo drawing 1 Right click in each view to sync and select the Synchronized option from the context menu Only the views that show the Synchronized option checked will be sync To synchronize all the views with the Mapinfo drawing 2 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 3 Inthe dialog select Linking tab Linking to GIS settings Synchronize all views Show visible extent Show image total extent Projection in the map of the GIS Mercator Spheric EP SG 3765 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 1 Right click ina view and select the Datefilter option in the context menu A textbox is shown Type a valid date range a
18. ate the buildings layers as editable in the Layer Control edific Map 5 x K File Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options Map Window Help E BS el ala x el Layer Control Ctrl L A x Create Prism Map F10 Create Thematic Map F9 Create Legend Change View Clone View Previous View Alt Left Arrow View Entire Layer LC E ep _ bs Create 4 Prism Map using the current Mapper 5 Inthe Create Prism Map select an appropriate color for background and light and click OK 64 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in x Choose Lauer and Column Layer edific sl Colum HEIGHT sl Appearance Background Light Color Camera Horizontal Angle 45 Vertical Angle 55 Cancel Help me BLOM In order to see the Prism Map correctly you will need to change the zoom and location using the Zoom amp Pan tools or using the 3DWindow gt Viewpoint Control menu To scale correctly the buildings use the 3DWindow gt Properties menu e Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options 3DWindow Window he BlomURBEX viewer 3 0 ech ALA xv LLD B gt g fal s DQ Settings m IS SEI F00 d ur NMAN e i STN Customer Support Document 2 5 x l maril zy WT lt pim ay AUN wf Height 13 15 m e 65 DD IER E bi Oct 2013
19. b AboutBoxForm Description Urbex er en Blom webtjeneste der udgiver ortho og skr billeder 0 er udviklet GC HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ab AboutBoxForm OKButton OK i am HARDWARE ab AboutBoxForm Title Om 0 SAM ab AboutButtonText Aben About Dialog SECURITY ab 4reaButtonTooltip Samarbejdsomrade v rkt j SOFTWARE ab BearingButtonTooltip Under middel ab BlomPictometryWebsiteButtonText Blom Pictometry website ab ClearButtonTooltip Ryd kort ab CoordinateForm btnCancel Annuller ab CoordinateForm btnOK OK CoordinateForm btnSelectProj v lg ab CoordinateForm Caption G til at koordinere ab CoordinateForm label1 x eller L ngdegrad ab CoordinateForm label2 eller Breddegrad ab CoordinateForm1 Numerisk v rdi kr vet ab DistanceButtonTooltip Distance v rkt j ab EastButtonTooltip vis fra st til vest ab ElevationButtonTooltip H jde v rkt j ab ExtractButtonTooltip v rkt jet Extract ab Filemenu File ab HeightButtonTooltip H jde v rkt j ab HelpMenu PS BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in To view 3D cities follow these steps 1 Open a map in MapInfo and load a table with polygons representing buildings 2 Create a float field where store heights in the buildings table 3 Using the BlomURBEX Plug in store heights selecting buildings and measuring heights in BlomURBEX Viewer In MapInfo select menu Map gt Create Prism Map If a warning appears requesting a editable layer activ
20. csceecscess 15 5 1 Selecting location in Mopinfo 15 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD By Contents 7 9 Measuring FOC AAS EE 30 7 10 Measuring diagonal Jength 31 7 11 CCG AG TICOS CHI EE 32 8 Printing WI aS EE 33 8 1 PANNO W110 e 33 8 2 OO A AC SCC eege te 33 8 3 PIO SCO E 34 8 4 PR OCW sic tener wie EE E A EE E A E E E E P E viet AT 34 BD EXO IMALES ee 36 9 1 Poorna GE VISIDIC Eege 36 9 2 Projection of the extracted orthoimgges 36 10 Saving measurements esssssscescescesceceesescescescescesoesessescescescescescesessesoseseecescseseesessessees 37 10 1 Setting measurement SAVINGS c1cccescneeccsecneccseccsecaneceeccseceuccesceseceuscesceuecensceeceseseneteseesssensseseaeeses 37 10 2 Starting and stopping SAVE Sessions 39 10 3 Procedure for saving MCASULCIMENKS secccccneseccceeeescsesececesececeuseseseeeesssusecsesusessesesestsueeeesssesseees 40 11 Overlaying tile raster data sesesesessssececesesescscecesesessececesesescscecesesescececesesesosceceseseeee 42 11 1 Activating and deactivating tiled raster overlouvs 42 br df e ETA T E E 44 12 1 Activating and deactivating vector overlays csseccccnesecccneseccceescceceeecsesusececsuseseseesesssusecstsesesesees 44 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 1 INTRODUCTION BlomURBEX is an online geographic information server geoserver it has been developed by Blom to allow on line access to all of our data products The BlomURBEX content includes a r
21. down m Column for areas m Column for distances T Column for heights at Column for elevations m Column for X coords and Y coords ES Column for bearings 7 Tostore only some measurements select lt None gt for those measurements in the dropdown lists To specify the options regarding the units and the projection to use in locations 1 Inthe Settings tab of Settings dialog in the Measurement options panel select the desired units meters or feet The values will be stored in the units selected 38 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 2 Inthe Linking tab in the Save location measurements panel choose in Spherical Mercator projection for storing location data in Spherical Mercator meters choose in WGS84 Lat Lon for storing location data as longitude latitude in the WGS84 spheroid or more usual use in selected map projection of GIS for storing location data in the projection of the current map in Mapinfo This last projection can be selected in the selector that is above the panel in the same Linking tab This setting only affects the Location tool 3 Click Save changes to save settings 10 2 Starting and stopping save sessions In BlomURBEX Viewer it is possible to start pause and continue the savings through an option To start a save session 1 Click in the File gt Start saving measuremen
22. e Reference Systern C Show Projection Description instead of SAS Image Background Projection EPSG 4326 Image Format image jpeg Transparent Color Longitude Latitude WGS 84 Table Filename C Documents and SettingstdosesMy DocumentsUrbE xOrtho TAB Prefered View Curent Mapper wi Pro does not support the Spherical Mercator projection defined as EPSG 3785 so for now ignore that layers 5 Once one of the WGS84 layers is selected click Add to add it to the right list of layers to request Leave the Style dropdown box with the lt Default gt value Leave the Image format dropdown box with the default image jpeg value In the Projection dropdown box select the EPSG 4326 projection as shown in the figure Type URBEXOrtho TAB as file name in the Table filename textbox instead of the default Untitled TAB Leave the rest with default values and select Current mapper in the preferred view dropdown box Finally click OK to create a TAB file in the selected location with a link to the server and add that TAB file as a layer to the current mapper After some seconds the BlomURBEX ortho layer will be shown under the rest of the map layers If a ERROR Unauthorized message appear you should consider if the extent requested is too big read below or if your usertoken do not authorize to see the current map coordinates 52 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in P MapInf
23. e configured in different TAB files Leave the rest with default values and select Current mapper in the preferred view dropdown box Finally click OK to create a TAB file in the selected location with a link to the server and add that TAB file as a layer to the current mapper After some seconds the BlomURBEX ortho layer will be shown under the rest of the map layers If a ERROR Unauthorized message appear you should consider if the extent requested is too big read below or if your usertoken do not authorize to see the current map coordinates MapInfo Professional contrucs UrbexNorth UrbExOrtho Map ei File Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options Map Window Help gt or X plesk el el ale lela ole eh SE oS SH ZS TR FNR _ Web Services CO Au by Zoom 0 3000 mi A Editing None Selecting None This figure shows the North ortho rectified image layer 54 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in MapInfo Professional contrucs UrbExWest UrbExOrtho Map agga e File Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options Map Window Help EF piela E el lS lla o S Rams Ser F a SZ f Ch e gd x 9 Web Services x a o Te Tei SE gen Sie SE MK A Bev Kb gt Cen er P i Zoom 0 3000 mi Editing None Selecting None This figure shows the West ortho rectified layer as is rendered by default 4 As you can see from previous snapshot the
24. e file uses two lines so do not break the format of this file or the plug in could not work correctly Once the epsg file is modified open again the Settings dialog in the plug in and reselect again the projection to refresh internal settings 18 APPENDIX B HOW TO IMPROVE INTERFACE TRANSLATION The plug in interface supports twelve languages The strings for each language are stored in the registry in the path HKEY_ CURRENT _USER SOFTWARE Blom Urbex 2 0 Each language has a section english en espa ol es deutsch de francais fr italiano it nederlands nl portugu s pt dansk da norsk no svenska sv suomi fi romana ro Each string uses a pair name value The name is an easy to understand name For example AboutBoxForm Description is the description for BlomURBEX Viewer that appears in the About dialog Change these values at your convenience using the registry editor Next time you open BlomURBEX Viewer will reflect your changes If any value is missing the default value used is the English string To return to original translation values just delete de registry folder da de en and so on of the language entries you want to reset Next time that language is selected inside the plugin the original entries will be restored in registry for that language Editor del Registro mirc Nombre po LE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT ab Predeterminado valor no establecido a HKEY_CURRENT_USER a
25. e upper dropdown box The list will show only those projections selected at least once or any other marked explicitly as most used To select click in the list and ear 1 In OU T fe eira e d Y e hali A CL 9 L aya aire a d Y L LATE BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 6 To select a projection from a reduced list using a filter choose Use a filter in the upper dropdown box The filter textbox and Filter button will activate Type a search word or words in the filter textbox and press Filter Only the projections containing the full search text will be Enter a word to filter related projections osgb EPSG Code Name 4277 OSGB 1936 4278 OSGB 0 27700 OSGB 1936 British National Grid BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 Click in the Save changes button to finish the configuration Settings do not persist if the Plug in is reinstalled We need to set the settings again in case of re installation 4 5 Changing language interface To change the language interface follow these steps 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2 Inthe dialog select Settings tab So Settings P cf Linking E i SR BLOM BlomU
26. ed baselayers lists Contigure baselayers Use default baselayers Selected baselayers countryortho All available dates Select date range From year To year fy N E I x ia wee BLOM BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 4 Selected baselayers will be rendered following the order in the Selected baselayers list Top in the list will be drawn last ones To reorder the items in the list select a layer and click in the Up or Down buttons 5 To filter only the layers belonging to a user type the username in the Filter baselayers by user textbox and only layers available to that user will be shown in the list of all available layers 6 For each baselayer the BlomURBEX server can provide different dates To filter a range of dates for the images in the baselayer uncheck the All available dates checkbox and select two years in the From year and To year combo boxes Only images in the selected baselayers that where captured during the period will be shown e Lp SPES RET elen wa T E i mise toptien nj w f ag d A Fms Controlli bw Ri Hizi BB A D E yg ew d ae EI a Ka j con E e j Cam S e Sue 15 10 2009 ioe The snapshot above shows two different baselayers of the same date side by side in a Two view layout The left is the default baselayer and the right is the baselayer called countryortho 5 8 Showing the visible and total extension in M
27. es at your convenience prior to store measurements and then select them 4 Now in BlomURBEX Viewer do a measurement as described above in this manual The values are saved internally 5 Now in Mapinfo click in the Save last measurement in the plug in toolbar The last measurement made in BlomURBEX Viewer will be sotred in the selected features in the map in the layer and field selected in settings BlomURBEX Da BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in AA LAYER 100 031 ELEVATION 38170533790212 NAME Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 11 OVERLAYING TILE RASTER DATA BlomURBEX Viewer is able to overlay tile raster data from BlomURBEX server both in Ortho and Oblique modes In next chapter is explained how is possible to overlap also local vector data loaded in Mapinfo Both tile raster layers and local vector layers can be overlapped at the same time over the BlomURBEX Viewer They all are treated as layers and drawn on top of the basemap imagery 11 1 Activating and deactivating tiled raster overlays To activate or deactivate the raster overlays follow these steps 1 Right click in any view and select the option Edit tiled overlay layers from the context menu The Configure tiled overlay layers opens 2 The Available tiled overlay layers list shows the names the available o
28. evolutionary collection of geographical datasets including high resolution aerial imagery LIDAR and raster data Functionality within BlomURBEX allows the user to navigate measure export and search The BlomURBEX server has been specially designed to provide fast access to tiled geo referenced data models The data and functionality can be accessed through a variety of technologies and applications Blom has a collection of standard API s SDK s which allow users to create their own integrations with intranet solutions or web mapping products Alternatively users can access BlomURBEX through pre developed GIS plug ins or via Blom s new viewing application BloomWEB The many different methods of accessing BlomURBEX emphasises the flexibility of the service and how this geoserver can meet all customer requirements however varied they may be Currently there are over a thousand urban areas represented by aerial imagery and hundreds of 3D models BlomURBEX is designed to serve all products and services provided by Blom but data belonging to the client or a third party can also be tiled and uploaded to the server to be used by the client alongside the Blom data Based on the same interface Blom has developed a full range of plug ins that integrates BlomURBEX services into GIS and CAD applications Blom currently has the following Plug ins available e BlomURBEX plug in for ESRI ArcMap ArcView ArcEditor and Arcinfo e BlomURBEX
29. he requested raster image This raster image can be ortho view or any of the rectified oblique views The service requires an HTTP request with a few parameters normalized by OGC which define the request These parameters are the service the version the type of request the system of spatial reference the coordinates of the area that define the spatial area of the request the size of the image of response the format of image the layers the transparency etc This manual explains how to access BlomURBEX WMS services for MapInfo Professional 10 0 and above 13 1 Settings up BlomURBEX WMS services in Mapinfo Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Prosy Server Settings Use System Settings O Use Direct Connection 0 Use Proxy Server Settings 5 Inthe WMS tab leave the default timeout values and pixel limits Click in the Servers button Proxy WES WMS WMS Timeout Values SE Connect Timeout 60 seconds Send Timeout 60 seconds Receive Timeout 300 seconds WMS GetMap Pixel Limits Max Width 2 048 pixels Max Height 2 048 pixels Maintain Servers List ma BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 6 The WMS Servers List dialog opens Click the Add button Description Server UAL Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Web M https ceowaree CTS nican gc ca cubeWwers Compusult Limited METAR Weather Mapp http geo compusult net scrpts mapmar
30. ible extent Print shoot date Print measurements 3 Click Save changes and dismiss the Settings dialog 8 3 Page setup To change page settings 1 Click the File gt Page setup menu Export all views to image Start saving measurements Print all views Print all views preview Page setup Be CG CO IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Export all views to image Start saving measurements Print all views Print all views preview Page setup 2 The Print preview dialog opens Click in the options to see the print at different zooms o layouts Also it is possible to print clicking in the Print button The dialog can be resized to full screen visite extent polygon Upper Le Shot Comer 4 70034524432344 40 65971125895E5 GE 54 Full extent polygon SmetComer A 6SSES406S20623 40 6597 113869555 WGE SA Upper Le Snct Comer fe ee eee Comer 4 69865405822633 40 6573795752556 WIGS 84 Upper Right Snot Comer 4 6957702284 40 mos Lower Le Shot Comer 4 70024924432344 40 6573795752656 IGE 84 Lower Right Shot Comer 4 6975755828 rere Lita wes opt Lower Le Snect Comer A 7045265116 40 6552262756 WGE image Orientation Otho visibte extent polygon breeze e 70005302476205 40 66060S5940114 WGE 24 EC ASSA 4 ae BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 9 EXPORTING IMAGES 9 1 Exporting all visible views The BlomURBEX
31. n Save location measurements in Spherical Mercator projection in WGS64 Lat Lon in selected map projection of GIS Image Size 4872x3248 pixel Full extent polygon Mercator Spheric Upper Left Shot Corner 410853 746479164 4932527 64292124 Upper Right Shot Corner 409761 924913464 4932527 64292124 Lower Right Shot Corner 409761 924915464 4931483 40643669 Lower Left Shot Corner 410853 746479164 4931485 40643669 Visible extent polygon Mercator Spheric Upper Left Shot Corner 410760 149155 4952532 268446 Upper Right Shot Corner 410458 982934 4932533 466695 Lower Right Shot Corner 410432 577944 4951670 771366 Lower Left Shot Corner 410696 608231 4951670 024927 Image Orientation North Image Shot Date amp Time 18 07 2009 0 00 00 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD de BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 USING THE MEASUREMENT TOOLS BlomURBEX Viewer offers various tools for measuring features visible in images For example it is possible to measure the distance between two points the elevation of the terrain building heights bearing area perimeter the coordinates of a point etc Before using the measurement tools be sure that the unit of measure is set as desired 7 1 Changing units of measure To change units of measure 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2
32. n dll CubeSERV http demo cubewers Com demo cubezerd Demis WMS Server bp Zduwaaa dems nl mapserver request asp Genimap WMD Service http map genimap comGenimap wh Sy Deo WMS DGM http w gegas net geoas_ wms getmap 4 DM ap WS Demo Server Atta iwi drgolutions ca corbin mams Land Register of Denmark WWM S zever http kort arealinto dk wms servicename la Microsoft TeraServer Map Server http teraserver usa com ogcecapabilities ash Spatial Planning Department WMS server http 4 kort plansystem dk wmne servicenames 7 The WMS Server Information dialog opens In the Server URL textbox type the following URL http www blomURBEX com v02 GetMap usertoken lt your user token gt amp VERSION 1 1 1 VIIGTIE J OKOL IC DE ale WY Vi JE OKOL J EXd LOUIE ale OKOL MS Server Informati on Server URL http Ava blomurber com v02 G etklaptusertoken VERSION Test URL Description Blom UE v Server Override Timeout Values Override WMS Gethlap Pinel Limits Override Default Values Override Default Values Connect Timeout seconds Asou 2048 E Send Timeout seconds May Height 2 048 piels Receive Timeout seconds ma BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Server URL Canada Centre for Remote Sensing WebM http ceowares cers nean ge cafcubewerss Compusult Limited METAR Weather Mapp hip geo compusult netscrpts maprman dll CubeS
33. ned in Mapinfo with at least one layer in the map where to store the measurements 2 Click in the Refresh saving options button in the plug in toolbar to ensure that the BlomURBEX viewer obtains the information about current layers tables opened BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in KR FN BlomUrbex GIS Plugin Settings ane mg ff ll A D ud BlomURBEX Datasources ar Settings 3 Linking gt Overlays Linking to GIS settings Synchronize all views Options for saving measurements Show visible extent _ Table AO v Show image total extent Column for areas Shape_Area v Projection in the map of the GIS Column for distances WGS 84 UTM zone 30N EPSG 32630 g l lt None gt i Column for heights OBJECTID i Select projection Paia r Column for elevations Shape Area Save location measurements Column for X coords lt None gt X in Spherical Mercator projection r S d Column for Y coords lt None gt v i in WGS84 Lat Lon Column for bearings lt None gt M i in selected map projection of GIS l Save changes Cancel 6 Select a field for each type of measurement to save from the dropdown lists It is possible to store seven different type of measurement The table summarizes the relation between the BlomURBEX Viewer tools and the fields used to make the savings In BlomURBEX Viewer In Mapinfo measurements are saved in the field selected in the tool used is drop
34. ns is done It is possible to adjust the precision of the interpolations For that follow these steps 1 Open Settings dialog 2 Select the Overlays tab 3 The amount of points used for the interpolation determines the accuracy It is possible to use no less than four points and no more than 400 points Change this clicking up or down the Points of interpolation textbox More points interpolate more accurately but are slower Default is 100 Overlays settings Faster oblique overlays using interpolation Points for interpolation 400 Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Rotation Angle deg background Noe T Drop Shadow C Halo T Bold Border ECGS e Polylines are always shown as solid lines but the width and color are correctly chosen Width must be in pixels Line Style i o S tule E F Interleaved Region Style BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ay BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 13 ADDING BLOMURBEX TO MAPINFO AS WMS LAYER BlomURBEX offers a WMS Web Map Service service to allow access to the ortho images and the ortho rectified obliques oblique imagery shown in an pseudo ortho mode projected over the ground This WMS follows the directives and OGC s regulation This protocol is a service of publication of the cartography across Internet The service gets a request from a client specifying the extent and size of the required image and returns t
35. o Professional contrucs UrbExOrtho Map File Edit Tools Objects Query Table Options Map Window Help oO X de Sief SN Sek f Web Services r Vo Zoom 0 3000 mi Editing None S Selecting None Once a TAB file is saved with the BlomURBEX layer config to add the layer to other maps it is not necessary to use again the Open WMS Table button Instead open that TAB file as any other TABs 13 3 Adding BlomURBEX imagery as WMS ortho rectified oblique layer in Maplnfo Follow these steps 1 To add the North South West and East ortho rectified oblique layers from BlomURBEX follow the steps 1 to 4 in the previous section 2 Inthe Open WMS Table dialog select any previous layer added in the right list and click Remove to clear all the list 3 Select in the WMS layers list any of the North Images WGS84 South Images WGS84 West Images WGS84 or East Images WGS84 layers Be careful to select only one layer at a time Click Add to add the layer to the right list Leave the Style dropdown box with the lt Default gt value Leave the Image format dropdown box with the default image jpeg value In the Projection dropdown box select the EPSG 4326 projection as shown in the figure Type a name as filename 53 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 V d d me BLOM BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in in the Table filename textbox instead of the default Untitled TAB This way each BlomURBEX layer will b
36. pen the Settings dialog and in the General tab select the desired level for logs To deactivate logs just select None as log level To activate logs select Error Warning or Information level in order from minimum to maximum verbose To open the log file click in Open log button Print shoot date Print measurements BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Why the point I select in Mapinfo is not exactly the same in the image in BlomURBEX Viewer The data opened in Mapinfo can be in any coordinate system When digitizing this data a coordinate system was used defined by some parameters that describe the Earth and how to convert between projections BlomURBEX Viewer uses the Proj4 library to perform transformations between any projection and Mercator Spheric EPSG 3785 the default projection that use BlomURBEX Web Services at the moment If the parameters used by the operator that digitizes the data opened in Mapinfo and the parameters used in Proj4 are not the exactly the same some shift can occur in the location In order to minimize this shift it is possible to modify the epsg file that comes in the BlomURBEX install dir The parameters must comply with the rules that expect Proj4 PROJ4 format To know more about this check the appendix below Why WMS layers are not seen in MapInfo when added Check that the layers set to visible are WGS84 layers because Mercator Spherical layers are not supported by MapInfo 9 5 as a
37. plug in for ESRI ArcIMS e BlomURBEX plug in for ESRI ArcGIS Server e BlomURBEX plug in for Intergraph GeoMedia Professional e BlomURBEX plug in for Integraph GeoMedia WebMap e BlomURBEX plug in for Autodesk Map and AutoCAD e BlomURBEX plug in for Autodesk MapGuide e BlomURBEX plug in for Bentley MicroStation e BlomURBEX plug in for MapInfo Professional e BlomURBEX plug in for MapInfo MapXtreme Software downloads can be found on our website on our dedicated software page Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 3 5 and 4 0 BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo is developed with Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 3 5 and 4 0 If not installed please proceed to the installation of them Mapinfo version This BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo requires versions 11 0 11 5 or 12 0 of Mapinfo in order to execute BlomURBEX plug in Windows versions BlomURBEX plug in for Mapinfo supports Windows versions supported by the Intergraph products Read Mapinfo install guide for more info Credentials for BlomURBEX Web Services To access BlomURBEX Web Services a user password credentials and its matching usertoken are needed Contact with Blom Marketing Department to obtain them BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 3 INSTALLING BLOMURBEX PLUG IN FOR MAPINFO To install folow this steps 1 2
38. r europe LP BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Linking to GIS settings Synchronize all views Show visible extent Show image total extent Projection in the map of the GIS Mercator Spheric EPSG 3 785 3 Click in the Select projection button to open the Select projection dialog In the dialog select in the available projection list the one that the basemap has There are different options to select the desired projection 4 Toselect a projection from the full list of supported projections choose Show all projections in the upper dropdown box To select click in the list and then click in OK or double click an item in the list Any item chosen will be reminded later in a list with the most used projections so it is ka pl la ETRS GK28FIN Lappeenranta Mercator Spheric Unknown datum based upon the Airy 1830 ellipsoid Unknown datum based upon the Bessel 1241 ellipsoid Unknown datum based upon the Clarke 1858 ellipsoid Unknown datum based upon the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid 4 TA A A et w Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in WGS GA UTM zone 27N WGS 4 UTM zone 28N WGS BA UTM zone 25N WGS 84 7 UTM zone 32N WGS 84 UTM zone 33N WGS 84 UTM zone 34N 5 To select a projection from the reduced list of the most used projections choose Show most used projections from th
39. r to see the BlomURBEX WMS imagery in any other projection supported by MapInfo Once a BlomURBEX layer with the WGS84 Lat Lon projection is added to the map it is possible to change the map projection To do this follow these steps 1 Ensure that the Image processing option is set to Always or Optimized to allow MapInfo re projection of raster data 2 Open the Map options dialog and the Projections dialog clicking the Projection button 3 Select any supported projection from the lists of the Projections dialog 59 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO Ee BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 4 Click OK both in the Projections dialog and the Map options dialog to accept changes 5 Maplinfo will re project any data presented in the map both vector and raster layers including the BlomURBEX WMS layers to the new projection da BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 14 UNINSTALLING BLOMURBEX PLUG IN FOR MAPINFO Select Blom gt Plugins gt ProductName gt Uninstall from the Start Menu entry that was created in the installation process 15 TROUBLESHOOTING 15 1 Log files If the applications do not work as expected the best way to know what is happening is to activate the logging utility Troubleshooting any issues is easier if log files are created and supplied to the Blom technical support team In BlomURBEX Viewer to activate logs o
40. re defined now in BlomURBEX server Also check that the UserToken is valid and has permission to see image in the zone of the MapInfo map Finally ensure that the zoom of the map is closed enough At far zoom levels the WMS is not visible 17 APPENDIX A HOW TO ADD NEW PROJECTIONS The projection support relies on the PROJ4 public domain library In the installation folder of the plug in a file epsg is provided that contains EPSG codes names and parameters for the EPSG coded projections If you need to modify an existing projection or to add support for new projections modify this file with any text editor following the PROJ4 rules for parameters See the http proj maptools org webpage for more information For example if support for the Microsoft Live Maps projection is needed add the next two lines to the file the second line looks longer but is only one World Mercator lt 54004 gt proj merc lat_ts 0 lon_O O k 1 000000 Aw Dt y_0 0 ellps WGS84 datum WGS84 units m no_defs lt gt Or support for Google Maps projection Google lt 900913 gt proj merc a 6378137 b 6378137 lat_ts 0 0 ron O 0 0 x_0 0 0 y_0 0 k 1 0 units m nadgrids null wktext no_defs lt gt 62 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 Dn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in For optimize the Select projection dialog delete from the epsg file any projection not needed Remember that each projection in th
41. s two years separated by hyphen Type Enter to save the filter Now the view will show only images captured during the period If no image was captured then the view will show nothing 2 Toreset the filter to the default that is to show the last available image repeat step 1 but left the textbox empty and press Enter Synchronized f Datefilter None 8 Goto coordinates b Show properties Edit baselayer Edit tiled overlay layers Export image U d st F d SC Ris We kb BE A RE SEN Wa A e b s l right sigs diz BLOM ROG 14 Blom ASA DIE A git ren E Above both views of Eiffel tower from 2008 and 2009 23 Customer Support Document Oct 2013 BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 6 OBTAINING IMAGE INFORMATION To obtain the information about the current opened image right click in any view and select the Show Properties option A message box appears with the extent information the date of capture and the orientation of the image The coordinates are in the projection defined in the Settings dialog as follows 1 Inthe BlomURBEX Viewer toolbar click in the Change Settings button to open the Settings dialog 2 Inthe dialog select Linking tab Select the desired projection in the Save location measurements groupbox 3 Click Save changes and dismiss the Settings dialog Now use the Show Properties option and the coordinates will be in the selected projectio
42. t image 2 Introduce a correct longitude or X and latitude or Y coordinates separating both value with comma The projection for these coordinates must be the same of the current projection for the drawing in Mapinfo the same projection that was saved in the Settings dialog Click OK 4 After some seconds BlomURBEX Viewer will open the best BlomURBEX images for that location in all the orientations selected in the BlomURBEX Viewer layout The images are centered in the selected point and show a crosshair If no image appears consider if your user permissions do not allow seeing images for that location Ge 5 3 Panning images BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD de BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Zooming in or out with the mouse wheel in one view Move the mouse wheel frontwards or backwards to zoom in or out in just one view Zooming to a extent in one view Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Oblique imagery shown in a continuous or Ortho mode may suffer some distortion due to the irregularities of the terrain model that affects the ortho rectification process In flatter terrains the distortion is lesser Tools are unselected when the view mode changes Remember to select again the tool if using one when the mode is changed There are five types of orientations Ortho orientation that shows the image as an ortho photo North that shows the image looking from sou
43. th to north South from north to south East from west to east and West from east to west To change the orientation click in the O N S E or W buttons in the upper left control to activate the Ortho North South East and West orientations respectively Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 5 7 Changing basemap ortho image By default the ortho image shown as basemap is one from several images available in BlomURBEX server These images are visible are certain resolutions and among them are theses images e satellite with low resolution of the data This source data is available in the furthest zoom levels 1 to 13 and contains Blue Marble and Landsat 7 imagery e countryortho imagery covering a whole country or a region This source data is available in the medium zoom levels 13 to 19 and contains imagery from several providers and from Blom As can be seen at certain zoom levels different sources coexist It is possible to change what layers must be shown as baselayers For that follow these steps 1 Right click in any view and select Edit baselayers option in the context menu The Configure baselayers dialog opens 2 For load different baselayers instead of the default baselayers uncheck the Use default baselayers checkbox This will enable the Available baselayers and Select
44. ts menu if it is unchecked The menu will toggle to a checked state and measurements will be stored if fields were correctly set m Export all views to image mj Start saving measurements g Print all views LO Print all views preview in Page setup Export all views to image mj Stop saving measurements cS Print all views A Print all views preview in Page setup Bn BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 10 3 Procedure for saving measurements The procedure for saving measurements is this 1 Ensure that the current active map in MapInfo has a layer that matches the table selected in the BlomURBEX Viewer saving settings or that a stand alone table is opened that matches the table selected in BlomURBEX settings Ensure that the fields selected are in this layer or table If the layer or table is not present no saving will occur If a field is not present this field will be ignored Update anytime the settings to match them with the active map in MapInfo or stand alone tables opened in MapInfo 2 Ensure that the Start saving measurements menu is checked so the text in the menu is now Stop saving measurements 3 Using the selection tools of MapInfo select one or several map features or table records in the layer or table to update BlomURBEX Plug in only stores measurements in existing feature or table records so create new records or featur
45. verlay layers in the server Select one or several from the list and press the Add button to add them to the Selected tiled overlay layers list Only layers in thislist and in the order shown will be rendered in the view on top the base layer Follow user onentation Date range selection All available dates Select date range To year From year 1998 r 2013 BY ay BLO IMAGING THE WORLO BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 3 To change the drawing order select one layer in the Selected tiled overlay layers list and press in the Up or Down buttons 4 Select the Follow user orientation radio button to overlay in any orientation of the view Select Select orientation radio button to filter which orientation will have overlays In this case press in any orientation button and it will be marked in orange 5 For overlay layers the BlomURBEX server can provide different dates To filter a range of dates for the images in the overlay layers uncheck the All available dates checkbox and select two years in the From year and To year combo boxes Only images in the selected overlay layers that where captured during the period will be shown 6 Click OK to proceed and save changes KI d H NB Bs About f g Forms Conta P e SN Jiss _ T bk fb WW D meng P7244 15 10 2009 W s uhh d C g cc Tile raster overlay with
46. ysis of needed stairs to access buildings To measure the diagonal HM AOA THN ONnOTN ava BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 7 11 Clearing measurements Use the Eraser Tool to clear measurements in the map display To clear measurements 1 Click the Eraser Tool 2 The measurements are removed in all available views ay BLOM IMAGING THE WORLO de BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in 8 PRINTING IMAGES BlomURBEX Viewer let print all the views opened to the selected printer setup the page options and preview the printing along with the image properties if they were activated in the settings dialog Before printing scroll or pan the image so that the portion we wish to print is visible in the display Also resize the views with the splitters and the size of the BlomURBEX Viewer window The visible portion of each image and with the exact pixel size will be send to printer 8 1 Printing images 1 To send all the current views to the printer with the current settings click the File gt Print All Views Each view in the layout is printed in different page with the image information activated in settings SS cel Export all views to image Start saving measurements Print all views Print all views preview Page setup BLOM IMAGING THE WORLD ae BlomURBEX Mapinfo Plug in Printing settings Print image properties Print image vis

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