User Guide

The Street Smart plugin integrates CycloMedia Cyclorama imagery with QGIS. It opens an external Street Smart panorama viewer that stays in sync with the QGIS map canvas and can exchange overlays and measurements with your layers.

Quick start

1. Open Settings Street Smart Plugin and enter your CycloMedia credentials. Use username/password for the Atlas WFS. If your organization uses OAuth, check Use OAuth Authentication and provide your Client ID (you will sign in in the viewer). Keep the default URLs unless you were given custom endpoints.
2. Click Add Atlas Recording WFS to add the recordings layer. Zoom to 1:5000 or closer to see the layer named CycloMedia Recording.
3. Click Select Cyclorama point and click a location on the map to launch the panorama viewer at that position.
4. Optional: toggle Add Overlay layers to Panorama Viewer to send visible vector layers within roughly 60 meters of the cone. Toggle Start Measure to capture measurements from the viewer into the active editable vector layer.

Toolbar

The plugin menu and toolbar provide these commands:

• Add Atlas Recording WFS (always enabled): adds the Atlas recording WFS layer using the login credentials and filter described below.
• Select Cyclorama point (enabled after the WFS layer is present): click the map to open/update the panorama viewer and draw the viewing cone.
• Add Overlay layers to Panorama Viewer (enabled when the panorama viewer is open): pushes visible vector layers near the cone into the viewer.
• Start Measure (enabled when the panorama viewer is open): toggles measurement mode and writes results into the active editable vector layer.
• Settings Street Smart Plugin: configure authentication and endpoints.
• Show help: opens this help.

Buttons added to the toolbar by the plugin.

Commands added by the Street Smart plugin.

Add Atlas Recording WFS

• Adds the atlas:Recording WFS from the configured URL. By default the URL is https://atlasapi.cyclomedia.com/api/recording/wfs and the filter is expiredAt is null. If you set a precision filter in Advanced Configuration it is appended to this filter.
• Uses the username and password from the Login tab for WFS authentication. OAuth is only used by the panorama viewer, so keep username/password filled when you need the WFS.
• The layer is named CycloMedia Recording. Any existing layer with that name is removed first, and scale-based visibility is set to 1:5000 so you need to zoom in to view it.
• The layer is requested in EPSG:4326 and added at the top of the layer tree.

Select Cyclorama point

• Click the button, then click a point in the map to open the panorama viewer on that recording. The viewer starts in the current map CRS; if you change the project CRS, click a new point to refresh the viewer CRS.
• A cone is drawn on the map to show the panorama position and viewing direction. Walking through panoramas in the viewer keeps the same CRS until you select a new point in QGIS.

Add an overlay to the cyclorama window

• Works only while the viewer is open. Toggle the button to send overlays; toggling it off removes overlays from the viewer.
• All visible vector layers (except the recording layer) that are in scale range are sent as GeoJSON with their symbology. Features within roughly 60 meters around the cone are included and resent automatically when the cone moves.
• Make a layer visible in QGIS and toggle the overlay button again if you want to add it after the first send.

Viewer with vector layers as overlays.

Create a measurement

• Works only while the viewer is open. Select an editable vector layer before toggling Start Measure; the plugin will start editing the layer if needed.
• The measurement tool in the viewer matches the active layer geometry: point, line, or polygon. The active measurement is written to the active layer; starting a new measurement in the viewer creates a new feature.
• Turning the toggle off stops measurement mode and disconnects from further updates. Closing the viewer also stops measurement.

View when a point layer is selected in measurement mode.

View when a polyline layer is selected in measurement mode.

View when a polygon layer is selected in measurement mode.

Settings

• Login: choose authentication. For basic authentication, enter username and password. For OAuth, check Use OAuth Authentication and provide a Client ID; you will sign in when the viewer opens. The API key can remain at its default unless your organization provides a different key.
• Configuration: optional overrides for the configuration URL, StreetSmart API URL (default v25.7), and the Atlas Recording WFS URL. Use the Use default checkbox to revert to the built-in endpoints.
• Advanced Configuration: an optional Filter on location section to apply a WFS filter. Leaving Use default checked keeps the filter expiredAt is null. Clearing it lets you set latitude/longitude/height precision thresholds; the filter applied looks like expiredAt is null AND latitudePrecision > X OR longitudePrecision > Y using your values.
• About and Agreement: version information and license.

Window for setting username/password or OAuth client ID.

Window for setting StreetSmart and WFS URLs.

Optional filter on location precision used for the Atlas WFS.

Tips

• The overlay and measurement buttons stay disabled until the panorama viewer is running.
• If no recordings appear, confirm your username/password, the Atlas WFS URL, and zoom to 1:5000 or closer.
• On first use the plugin may install supporting Python packages (cefpython3, geojson, shapely). Restart QGIS if prompted.