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The Location page is where you define the scene location with an option to use an image underlay.

Address

The street address for the scene. Uses the Bing Maps API to find an aerial image of the address and assign values to the latitude, longitude, and time zone.

Latitude

The scene location's latitude north of the equator in decimal degrees.

Longitude

The scene location's longitude east of the prime meridian in decimal degrees.

Time zone

The scene location's time zone in GMT or UTC.

Lookup address

Load an aerial image of the address and assign values to the latitude, longitude, and time zone.

Update map from coordinates

Load an aerial image of the latitude and longitude.

Load image

Load an image from a file stored on your computer.

Paste image

Load an image from your computer's clipboard.

Manual Scale

Change the image scale in meters per 100 pixels.

Zoom and pan tools

ss-location-zoom-pan

Zoom the image in and out, and pan the image left, right, up, and down.

Underlay this map in the scene

Use the map image as an underlay in the bird's eye view. This can be useful for positioning objects in the scene.

Remove underlay in scene

Remove the underlay image from the bird's eye view.

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