The Locations page has been renamed to Library, to reflect the broader range of data that can now be saved and synchronised with your account. In addition to saved locations, the Library now supports Shot Plans and Visual Searches.
For a video walkthrough of the new functionality see here.
Lists defined in the Library can be used with all three types. You can mix and match, reorder and filter as desired, providing a very flexible solution for managing and organising your planning data.
The Library page now also supports:
- Bulk edits: bulk delete or assign documents to Lists
- Bulk archive documents to the new
.tpeformat: this is a typed JSON format with a fully documented JSON Schema reference, making it easy to adapt your data to other formats in external tools or scripts - Import from various formats, including KMZ, KML, GPX, GeoJSON
- Export to
.tpeformat or KMZ
Shot Plans
You can save Shot Plans on the Map or 3D pages, using the save button just below the scrollable time chart. Any saved shot plan then appears in the Library, where you can load, edit, delete, assign to Lists, import or export as needed.
A Shot Plan includes as much detail as you supply in the app: at a minimum, it has date and time and a primary pin location. If you define a field of view with a particular camera and lens selection, that is also saved with the plan, and restored when you next open it.
You can have multiple Shot Plans open at once and switch between them with a single click on the Map and 3D pages. You can use the circumstances of a Shot Plan to define a Visual Search. For example, if the Shot Plan has the rising Full Moon at 90° azimuth and 2.5° altitude, you can create a new Visual Search using those same conditions, and run it to find future opportunities for the same plan.
Shot Plans can also be imported from PlanIt .pft files and PhotoPills .kmz files.
Visual Searches
Visual Search lets you define a required region in the sky for a target body, along with optional conditions such as “ during civil twilight ”. You can now save each search to the Library for easy future reuse.
Saved Visual Searches can be organised similarly to saved locations and Shot Plans, with options to assign to one or more Lists and to reorder within a List.
From a loaded Visual Search, you can save specific Shot Plans with a concrete date and time to help plan your shooting calendar.
