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  • December 12, 2020
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reedwhit
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Original Title was: Data Inspector: Changing Background map (or turning off) option to not reset view


Using the 2020.2 data inspector is a joy. The recent improvements with the background maps are amazing!! Having the ability to background high res 2-4 cm imagery is a great QA tool for doing detailed heavy cad-gis with lots of schematic level detail. Not sure if this is already suggested elsewhere or a bug. When reviewing data zoomed in to building level, it would be great to be able to change the background map or turn background off without the data inspector resetting the view to full extent.

I notice the Refresh view operation keeps the viewport the same so maybe this is a bug.


Bonus items:

  • have an option to keep or share the viewport between views (tabs) so that switching tabs would enable easy back and forth visual comparison.
  • tie this "shared viewport" functionality into saving views and/or arranging views (tabs) as side-by-side panes would be a great tool for comparing datasets in different views with common and differences jumping out.

NOTE: Im providing this feedback using DI in standalone mode (not within WB).

I can provide some better use cases for saved/shared viewport with a bit more digging and experimenting within workbench; I suspect this may also lend itself to data management in general.


Best, Reed


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  • December 12, 2020

clarification: realizing that turning off the background map will retaining the viewport is supported in the tree view; Perhaps the better/alternate improvement would be to allow multiple background maps to be added on the on the same view and then to be able to select/stack them in the same view.


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