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
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Click the + button at the top-left corner of the Portal. Select DTMs under the Components section (Fig. 1)
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A window will pop up (Fig. 2), complete the following fields:
- Company: this field should auto-populate but can be edited if needed
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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
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Security Type: if applicable, select either Public or Password (Authentication URL will appear if password is selected)
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Surface Model URL: ensure the correct DTM is pasted here
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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
- Company: this field should auto-populate but can be edited if needed
vGIS AR Application
- Login to the application and tap the Menu button (Fig. 3).
- 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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