How to upload Site Visit photos without Landscape Mobile

If you didn't use Landscape Mobile to collect your photos, you can still upload them to Landscape. This works for photos taken with a phone, a digital camera, or a drone.

This article uses a Site Visit to demonstrate the workflow, since that is the most common scenario, but the same steps apply when uploading photos to any other mapped object in Landscape.

Prerequisites:

• Your photos must be on your computer. If you took them with a phone or other mobile device, you can email them to yourself. If you took them with a digital camera or drone, use a memory card or transfer cable.
• If the device you used records the location of each photo (most phones and drones do), use a transfer method that keeps that location data. You may need to change your device's settings so the method you're using keeps the location information. Some transfer methods strip it.

Instructions

1. Navigate to the correct Portfolio record and open the Work tab.
2. Add a new Site Visit if one doesn't exist yet, or open the one you need to upload photos to.

UPLOADING GEOTAGGED PHOTOS

If your photos are geotagged (have geographic metadata), Landscape places each one on the map as a point.

If you aren't sure whether your photos are geotagged, try this method anyway. Landscape will let you know if they aren't.

Follow steps 1 and 2 above, then:

3. Click the Edit map features... button at the top of the map, then select Import map features.

4. In the window that pops up, choose One or more geotagged photos, then click Choose Files.

5. Select the photos from your computer. To select several at once, hold the Shift key while you click, or click and drag.
6. Back in Landscape, click OK. The photos upload and appear as points on your map. This can take a few minutes, depending on your network speed and the number of photos.

7. Click Save to save your edits. The side panel opens, showing the point and photo information. From there you can renumber the points, add photo captions, and more (see our tips, below).

UPLOADING NON-GEOTAGGED PHOTOS

If your photos aren't geotagged (have no geographic metadata), first document where you took them on the map, then attach each photo to its point.

Follow steps 1-2 above, then:

3. Click the Edit map features... button at the top of the map, then select the Draw Point tool.

4. On the map, click the approximate locations where you took the photos. Each click drops a point. Alternatively, you can import a shapefile of the points.
5. Click Save. If you made a mistake, click Cancel and start over, or delete a single point by clicking the trash can button (while editing) and selecting the point.
6. Click a saved point to open it, then click Add Photos.

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

Tips for after you upload

• Use the point renumbering tool to quickly number and label your new points.
• If you also need to upload a monitoring track, use the same steps #1-2 above and then draw a line feature instead of points. You can upload a .gpx track or a shapefile, or draw where you walked on the map.
• Add captions...but be careful! There are two places to add descriptions. One is the photopoint, shown in the screenshot above as 'Site Visit Point [#].' The other is the photo description, which is displayed next to the photo thumbnail; this is field you might consider the photo "caption." Make sure you add the description in the place your final report template uses. By default, this is the photo description, not the photopoint description.