#Map Editing Feature
You can now easily edit your existing map to remove specific areas, objects, or places using this feature.
Pro license is required to use this feature.
#Downloading Your Map
- You can log in to the Developer Portal and download the Sparse.ply file from the map you want to edit.
- Here's an example of how it looks.
#Example Sparse Map
- Click on "map-name-sparse.ply" to download the map

- This is how a sparse.ply map appears in the Developer Portal map view mode
Sparse Map looks like this in Developer Portal
#Editing map
- You can use any third-party tool of your choice that can edit and export .ply files
- 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, you need to upload the map to the Developer Portal
- Select the parent map from the dashboard that you downloaded to edit.
- Press the button "Upload Edited map"
- Then choose the File to Upload

- Choose a suitable name 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