vGIS Portal - Adding a Digital Terrain Model (KB-AP013)

Instructions for Adding and Enabling DTMs

You can add Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) to your company account from the vGIS Admin Portal.

Admin Portal

Click the + button at the top-left corner of the Portal. Select DTMs under the Components section (Fig. 1)

A window will pop up (Fig. 2), complete the following fields:

Company: this field should auto-populate but can be edited if needed

Name: the Identifier below will populate with valid charaters, Identifiers must be unique from one another

Visibility: Decide whether to share the new DTM with the whole company or specific teams

Security Type: if applicable, select either Public or Password (Authentication URL will appear if password is selected)

Surface Model URL: ensure the correct DTM is pasted here

Vertical Datum: Choose from a dropdown of  vertical datums to adjust the elevation of the digital space. Contact vGIS Support if you cannot find your required datum

vSite AR Application

1. Login to the application and tap the Menu button (Fig. 3).

2. At the main menu page, the first button will be the DTM selector. Tap this to open a dropdown menu to select your DTM (Fig. 4).

Supported Services

vGIS supports two services for custom elevation maps:

• ArcGIS Image service that supports image export

• ArcGIS image service with elevation layer type (preferred)

Service requirements:

• Tile API must be available

• Zoom level 17 is required

• The tiling scheme must be the same as used by ArcGIS Online, Bing, and Google Maps

Vertical datum should be WGS84 or one of the supported by vGIS.

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Have Questions? Feel free to Submit A Request to speak with a member of the vGIS Support Team.

Reviewed:  2025-02-20