Add camera positions to your site maps

Last modified: Thursday April 20, 2023.

For the tracking and locations to be accurate when using Map view, the camera icons and field of view indicators need to be correctly positioned and oriented on the maps. This allows your operators get a better understanding of your sites and the people in them.

Place the camera icons on your site maps, or around the edges of the map, to best reflect your physical camera placements on site and match the camera field of view details to the view shown by the camera.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have uploaded your site maps, and that the maps are linked to the correct site. See Upload site maps to Map view.

Task — Add camera icons

1. Choose Tools > Map view.
2. Toggle Map view into edit mode:
3. Expand Maps.
4. Choose the map to update with camera icons.

   Site maps are grouped by the site or office to which they belong; expand the site or office to view the site maps associated with that location.

5. Expand Cameras.
6. Find the camera to place on the map.

   You can scroll through the list of cameras, expand and collapse the camera groups, or use the search option to find the relevant camera. Click the camera name to open a thumbnail view from that camera.

7. Drag the camera to the representative position on the map.
8. Repeat for other cameras as needed.

For information about setting fields of view, see Set camera fields of view.