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Add data to a project

With Drone2Map, you can add data from your computer, from a local network, or from a project or map package to provide context and aid in processing drone imagery collections. You can also add data from your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise portal, or another source, such as ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

Catalog pane

The Catalog pane allows you to view and access items available to you.

The Project tab displays the items in a project; it's selected by default. The Portal tab provides access to online content from the active portal that you have permission to use. The Favorites tab allows you to collect frequently used folders, databases, and server connections, and add them to a project. The History tab shows the geoprocessing history and raster function history for a project.

In the Catalog pane, you can do the following:

  • List all items in many containers at once.

  • Search for items by typing keywords in the Search text box and pressing Enter.

  • Hover over an item and a pop-up appears showing its location, title, thumbnail, tags, and modification date if pop-ups are enabled and these details are available.

  • Press Ctrl or Shift while clicking multiple items to select them. This allows you to add them all to a map at once, for example.

The Catalog pane docks in Drone2Map, providing access to items in a project and the active portal while you work. After browsing or searching for content, you can drag layers onto 2D and 3D maps.

Reopen the Catalog pane

The Catalog pane is usually available when you create or open a project.

To reopen the Catalog pane if it's closed, complete the following steps:

  1. Click the Home tab on the ribbon.

  2. In the Layers group, click Catalog.

Add Data browse dialog box

The Add Data browse dialog box allows you to select an item in a project, a portal item, or an item outside a project to use for a task. When you click the Add Data button on the Home tab, the Add Data browse dialog box appears.

Quick links provide access to the available item categories and collections but do not expand to list their contents. Item properties are displayed in columns that can be used to sort the contents list. A brief portion of the selected item's metadata is available in the details panel along with the item's location and owner if the selected item is accessed from the active portal.

While the Project and Portal item collections continue to be available, the Favorites collection is not available on the browse dialog box. You can search the active portal and locations included in the current project, except folder connections that access the root of a disk.

The browse dialog box also includes the Computer collection that allows you to browse to and select items from locations on the local computer or the network that are not currently included in the project.

To find and select items, you can click quick links, double-click containers, or use the Location bar at the top. However, you can also do the following:

  • Click the Location bar or click in the Name text box to paste or type the path to a new location and press Enter. The dialog box opens that location. If the location is not accessible from the computer's local or mapped network drives, the network location is accessed, and the items it contains are listed; the location is not added to the project as a folder connection.

  • Paste a full path to an item, including the item's name, into the Name text box to select that item. For example, paste a full path including a table's name to add it to the current map.

  • When the Groups or All Portal quick links are selected, click the Search My Organization button in the upper corner of the dialog box to include only items from the active portal that are provided by your organization in the search results.