Put your team on the same map with...
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
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At Nearmap, when we ask for your feedback, we’re always listening. Many of you had let us know that you’d love to be able to collaborate and comment in real time on projects in MapBrowser. Now you can!
The challenge: collaboration bottlenecks
- 25% of productivity is lost through ineffective project collaboration 1.
- 70% of workers agree that poor collaboration is limiting their productivity and wasting their time 2.
- 61% believe better collaboration would result in greater business growth opportunities 3.
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The solution: Share MapBrowser projects
Now you can easily share a project in MapBrowser with others on your subscription or in your organisation, making teamwork more seamless by helping you all work together on the same map. When you share a MapBrowser project, you can choose view or edit permissions, to ensure your projects are managed according to your preferred access settings.
How to create a project:
When you browse any location in MapBrowser, the area is saved by default as ‘Untitled Project’. You can name your project by clicking on the name and typing a title, or to create a new project you can click the Projects icon at the top of the sidebar menu, and in the dialog window, click NEW PROJECT.
When you browse any location in MapBrowser, the area is saved by default as ‘Untitled Project’. You can name your project by clicking on the name and typing a title, or to create a new project you can click the Projects icon at the top of the sidebar menu, and in the dialog window, click NEW PROJECT.
If you don’t wish to create a project, just leave the title as is and continue browsing as normal. You can also add labels to projects to help keep track of your work. Projects are saved automatically as you work, so there’s no need to manually save changes.
Collaborate in real time
Collaboration is a huge improvement for teamwork. Once you’ve shared project in MapBrowser, other people with access to the same project can see comments and mark-ups in real time. Clearer communication across your projects helps reduce delays and minimising errors. Commenters can tag tag other team members in the project, with all comments viewable in a single panel.
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To add a comment, click the Comment icon in the top toolbar in MapBrowser. You’ll see a comment callout appear on the map — you can drag that to the relevant location on the map and click to insert.
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Simplify managing complicated traffic in and out of airport properties, and keep track of critical maintenance issues with a view of changes over time. Ensure the details are reflected across your team, helping keep to schedule for time-critical repairs and replacements.
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Supervise asset management, remotely
Assign portions of the areas you’re managing to different team members so everyone is working with a consolidated source of truth – removing confusion and saving the need for each employee to export and then consolidate different annotated maps.
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Bring intelligence into urban planning
Work with a single source of truth to make notes and share with teams including utilities and roadways, with the ability for all contributors and decision-makers to make notes and ensure everyone is informed.
This brings a new level of efficiency into MapBrowser, helping you and your team work smarter, with clearer information and a real-time view of who’s doing what in your MapBrowser project.
With collaboration, you can see measurements and comments made by other stakeholders in the same project, giving you a clear view of the latest project updates.
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Along with these updates, you’ll also notice that we’ve updated the dashboard in the MapBrowser MyAccount view. The new grid layout displays your projects in an intuitive layout. Each project tile has an action menu where you can open, duplicate, rename, or archive a project. You will also be able to see who’s currently working on a project, and their access level. Your notifications window in MapBrowser will appear in the top right of the screen, directly under the bell icon.
What’s your view on these updates?
We’d love to hear how these MapBrowser enhancements are helping you do more – let us know in this survey. Your feedback helps us shape future product updates coming your way.