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The Image Navigator API is available. The Image Navigator is the sparkling new SDK written entirely in JavaScript/HTML that makes use of AJAX technology to interface to the Pictometry Online Image Database.

The Image Navigator API is a component that can be embedded in web browser windows to Search, View, Navigate, Measure, and Overlay objectson Pictometry oblique and orthogonal images. The API is written entirely in JavaScript and uses AJAX technology to interface to the Pictometry Online Image Database containing many millions of images. The API contains the objects, methods, and events that are needed to display Pictometry images in a web application. The amount of programming required to use the API is minimal and will be immediately familiar with anyone who has used any web-based mapping application.

Some of the Features Offered

Use of the Image Navigator API provides access to the following features, and more. Additional features are continually being added and may not be listed here.

 • Access to the Pictometry image database. This includes images for a geographical region, up to all available images for county, state, region, or the nation coverage.

• Ability to view from different orientations (North, East, South, West, Orthogonal) and different shot levels (Neighborhood and Community).

• Click and drag images with continuous pan. Use click and drag to manuver around images and automatically bring up new images for continuous panning.

• Measurement tools that you are already familiar with, such as Distance, are provided.

• Add overlays to display additional data on each image.

• Ability to customize the units of measurement to better fit your needs.

For Developers

The Image Navigator API provides many objects, methods, and events that allow customization of the Image Navigator runtime environment to best suit your needs. The API is broken into several modules that provide a logical structure to the provided features.

Available events include mouse events, tool events, and panning events. Capturing these events allow developers to customize the response to user actions.

The entire Image Navigator user interface resides in a DIV element in a web page. The placement of this element is up to you, it can go anywhere! The only requirements are that this element is consided out-of-bounds for any DOM operations not exposed by the API, and that the DIV overflow property is set to "hidden".

Image Navigator Environment

The following diagram illustrated the Pictometry Image Navigator runtime environment.

Requirements

The Image Navigator SDK requires an Internet browser window that has a version of JavaScript enabled that supports asynchronous calls.