How to Upload Site Visit Photos if You Didn't Use the Landscape Mobile App (videos and article)

If you didn't use Landscape Mobile to collect your photos, you can still upload them to Landscape. Here's how. The videos are followed by an article describing the process.

For geotagged photos:

For non-geotagged photos:

Step 1: Transfer the photos to your computer. 

If you took them with a phone or mobile device, you can email them to yourself, or if they were taken with a digital camera, you'll need to use a SIM card or transfer cable.  If the device you took the photos with records the location of the photo (most phones do this), make sure you use a transfer method that retains that data. You may have to alter the settings of your device to retain the location information for the transfer method you're using.

Step 2: Create a Site Visit in Landscape (if it hasn't already been created).

Log in to Landscape on your desktop computer. Navigate to the correct property, parcel, or group and go to the 'Work' tab.  Click on the (+) button next to 'Site Visits' to create a new Site Visit.  Fill out the Site Visit information. If there are no site visits, you'll need to add one via the 'Add Work' menu.

Step 3: Start editing the layer

Click on the edit button on the map, then click on the 'import' button in the edit toolbar.

If your photos are geotagged, proceed to the next step. If not, go here. (If you're not sure, then give the next step a try anyway - Landscape will let you know if they're not geotagged).

Step 4(a) - for geotagged photos:

Click on the import features button.

Choose 'One or more geotagged photos' then click 'Choose File'.

Choose the correct files from your computer.  You can add multiple photos at once by selecting multiple photos (use the 'shift' key to select multiple files at once).

Click 'OK'. The photos will upload, and then appear as points on your map. If two photos are taken from roughly the same location, they will be uploaded to the same photo point. Click on save to save your edits.

The side panel will open, showing you the point information and photo information. You can then number the points, add photo captions, etc.

You can use the renumbering tool to quickly number your points.

4(b) - For non-geotagged photos:

After you select Edit in the map toolbar, click on the 'Point' tool, and proceed with clicking the approximate locations where you took the photos (alternatively, you could import a shapefile of the points). Each time you click you will drop a point. When you're done, click on the thumbs up to save your edits. If you make a mistake, click the thumbs down to cancel the edit, then start over again. You can also delete single points after your edit is saved by clicking on the trash can button (once editing) and selecting the point.

After you've saved your edits, click on a point and then click on the (+) button next to 'Photos' to add a photo.

Select the correct photo from your computer (you can only add one at a time) and click 'Open'.

Once the photo is attached to the photo point, you can add a description by clicking on the thumbnail and updating the photo description. 

Step 5: Download the Landscape Mobile App!

The Landscape Mobile App streamlines this process, so that you can take photos in the field, capture your monitoring track, and sync them directly with your Landscape account. You can also fill out custom forms, add issues, and navigate the property, all without cell signal.