FAQ
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Once you have paid and uploaded Tap2Map Application, the setup is very simple, just follow the instructions. Once in the App., you’ll then see how easy and intuitive to use.
You’ll also find a start guide on our "how does it work" page.
TECHNICAL QUESTIONS
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Yes, Tap2Map is among the few Applications on the market to offer a TERRAIN FOLLOWING option at the moment. This is, on a photogrammetric point of view, the most important option to keep the block images overlappings and thus will allow a better "bundle block adjustement", then a better final product accuracy.
Once installed, the application itself do not really need any internet connexion to work, it's understood that you need to have an internet connexion at least to draw your AOI on an updated map. Then on the field, you can fly your project without internet as far as your get GNSS sufficient number of satellites.
Yes, it’s not a issue for our Tap2Map application. As soon as you use our ”divide area” option, which is based on your battery endurance, the drone will come back to the departure point for you to you change the battery for a new one and restart.
In any case when you interrupt a flight, the application will keep the mission progress and restart the next flight at the place it was stopped.
This is not a Tap2Map depending question. But we did set the tuning of the camera to ”automatic exposure”. In any case, our application offers you the possibility to access to manual settings.
We cannot recommend a specific setting for photogrammetry, but from our experience if you find a manual test exposure that fits with your needs, keep the same setting for the whole flight, as a mission is generally for a short duration.
We do not recommend specific overlaps. Your tecnical choices for this, and the third party software that you intend to use after, is relying on your own knowledge. But we have an opinion about this topic: due to the fact that many drone lenses have a kind of wide FOV, we recommend to stay on the safe side with quite large overlaps (like 70% / 70% as a minimum). But be aware that the overlaps will not be constant due to the terrain variation in elevation … Our interesting feature of Terrain Following option will at least allow to mitigate (or nearly eliminate) the risk to have too weak or small overlaps due to the terrain variations.
Tap2Map is adapted to all built in DJI’s sensors types that are offered. We also added the possibility in our development that our customers can configure and use their own sensor that will be mounted on their DJI drones.
Note: In that case, we do not manage the triggering communication between the drone and the owned camera, make sure that it works.