360° Photos and Videos on the Map

Hundreds of 360° photos come back from a site visit and usually end up in a folder; the question "which corner was this taken from?" never gets answered. In CartaX, 360° content is not a loose file — it is a layer that sits on the map: every photo becomes a pin where it was taken, a video's marker follows the route as it plays, and you walk the site from your desk, point to point.

What a collection is, and what goes in it

360° content is uploaded as a collection. Pick the 360 Photo Video card in the upload dialog and add files with Choose 360 photos, Choose folder or — for video — Choose 360 photo/video + track. Give the collection a name if you like; leave it empty and one is generated. 360° files travel in their own lane of the upload queue, so they never hold up your other uploads.

A collection has two parts: panorama photos (JPG/PNG) and an optional position table (CSV, Excel or JSON). Positions are resolved in three tiers:

1. If you provided a position table, every photo's location comes from the table — the most reliable route.
2. Without a table, the photos' own GPS data (EXIF) is used. These positions count as drafts; they can be off by a few metres.
3. For photos with no GPS, a dialog opens during upload: assign all missing photos the same location or enter them one by one; you can also pick on the map. Elevation and heading are optional.

	Upper limit
Collection total (photos)	5 GB
Single panorama image	64 MB (images over 32 MB show an "upload may take longer" warning)
360° video, single file	30 GB and 30 minutes
Video format	MP4, WebM or MOV; 2:1 (equirectangular) aspect

See Supported Formats for every limit.

Walking the map

Once the upload finishes, each photo appears as a pin on the map; in large collections nearby points group together as you zoom out. Click a pin and the 360 panorama viewer opens: look around with the mouse (a finger on the phone), zoom in, go Fullscreen and reset the view with Face north. As you turn the image, the marker on the map shows which way you are looking.

If the collection was shot as a sequence — along a road, floor by floor, room by room — the Previous / Next buttons in the viewer and the arrows on the ground carry you from one point to the next: your site's own street view. Collections open on phones too; large images that hit the phone's memory limit are downsized automatically.

360° video: playback on the route

A single 360° video file uploads at up to 30 GB and 30 minutes. Unlike photos, videos carry no location; you provide it in one of three ways:

• Track file: add a .SRT (DJI) or .GPX (Insta360, GoPro, Ricoh) file with the same base name as the video, in the same selection. A route line lands on the map; as the video plays the marker follows the route, and when you scrub ahead it jumps to that point instantly. For drone flights this is the natural route.
• Position table: the video is positioned from a row in the table.
• Manual placement: with neither, the video still uploads; you place it on the map yourself. There is no route sync, but the video plays.

After upload the video goes through a short preparation step (Processing the video…); it then plays on any device and picture quality adapts to your connection on its own — there is nothing to set. Optionally, during upload you can extract positioned 360° photos along the route at set intervals (25 / 50 / 100 m, up to 300 frames). Track files, the naming rule and frame extraction are covered in syncing 360° video with GPS. 360° video upload is included in the Professional plan.

Growing and editing a collection

A collection is not a sealed package. Open it from the layer panel and, in the Add / remove scenes dialog, append new photos with Add to queue; photos from a second visit join the same collection. Select scenes you no longer want and Remove selected. Careful: deleting the last scene deletes the whole collection, and that cannot be undone.

Sharing, analysis and storage

A collection can be included in a share: the recipient sees a 360 collection section in the layer list and uses the same viewer in their browser via Open 360 panorama — nothing to install. In the analysis workspace you can attach a collection to an orthophoto or a model and compare two epochs side by side.

360° photos and videos count against your storage quota like all your other data; deleting the collection or individual scenes frees the space.

Common questions

Question	Answer
Is a position table required?	No — GPS in the photo is read if present; otherwise you place it manually
How big can a collection be?	5 GB of photos in total, 64 MB per image
Video limit?	30 GB and 30 minutes per file
How does a video follow the route?	With a .SRT/.GPX track file named like the video
Can I add photos later?	Yes — from the Add / remove scenes dialog
Can it be shared?	Yes; the recipient walks it in a browser
Does it count against quota?	Yes, it is deducted from your storage quota