# Map Editing Feature

You have already built a map and want to edit it. If you wish to remove a certain area, objects, or a specific place from the map, you can now easily do so with this feature.

Enterprise license is required to use this feature.

# Downloading Your Map

• You can login to the Developer Portal and download the Sparse.ply file from the map you want to edit.
• Here is the example of how that looks like.

# Example Sparse Map

• Click on "map-name-sparse.ply" to download the map

• This is how a sparse.ply map looks like in the Developer Portal map view mode

  

# Editing map

• You can use any third party tool of your choice that can edit and export .ply file
• In this example we used "MeshLab".
• After editing the map always export it in .ply format

Here are the steps to export:

• For MeshLab go to "File > Export Mesh As"

• Select file type ".ply" Choose File name and File Location

# Upload edited map

After editing and exporting now you have to upload the map to the Developer Portal

• Select the parent map from dashboard that you downloaded to edit.
• Press the button “Upload Edited map”
• Then choose the File to Upload

• Choose a suitable name and and select the file to upload

• And wait for the upload then map will be visible in your dashboard.

# Tutorial Video

Here is the tutorial video of the same process explained above. In this video you will see:

• Downloading the map
• Editing in MeshLab
• Exporting .ply file
• Uploading to dashboard
• And at the end comparison of cleaned and raw maps