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title: "Obliques Imagery (Beta)"
slug: "metromap-obliques-imagery-beta"
updated: 2025-08-14T02:11:50Z
published: 2025-08-14T02:11:50Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.metromap.com.au/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Obliques Imagery (Beta)

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**Beta Feature:** MetroMap Obliques Imagery is currently in **beta** mode and is subject to refinement and change.
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## <span style="color:rgb(255,16,61)"> Overview
The **MetroMap Obliques** feature provides aerial images captured at an approximate 45° viewing angle, offering side-on perspectives alongside traditional overhead imagery. 
    
This oblique viewpoint allows users to better visualise structures, terrain, and features that may be obscured or unclear from standard vertical aerial views.

**Practical applications include:**

- **Site Planning & Feasibility Assessment**  
  Evaluate locations effectively by viewing structures and their surrounding context from multiple angles to inform design, development, and planning decisions.

- **Property & Asset Inspections**  
  Gain improved visibility of building façades, infrastructure, and assets to support assessments, maintenance planning, and reporting.

- **Risk & Accessibility Assessment**  
 Identify hazards, access points, and site constraints that may be hidden in standard aerial views.
    
- **Change Monitoring & Documentation**  
  Track changes over time from different perspectives to enable more informed decision-making and maintain historical records.
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## <span style="color:rgb(255,16,61)"> User Guide
### Step 1: Select the Oblique Imagery layer
**Description:**  
From the layer menu, select the **MetroMap Obliques** layer to prepare the map for displaying oblique views.  
**Layers for Oblique Imagery will have an icon** displayed next to the date
![obliques_select_layer](https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/obliques_select_layer.gif){height="" width=""}

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### Step 2: Turn on Oblique viewing mode
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Warning: If this step is skipped, only vertical images will be shown. 
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**Description:**  
Click the **Obliques** button  <img src="https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/Oblique_icon.png" alt="Obliques button" width="50" height="50" />  to switch from standard vertical (nadir) imagery to angled oblique views for the selected date. If this step is skipped, only vertical images will be shown.  

![Obliques_Icon_finder](https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/Obliques_Icon_finder.png){height="" width=""}

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### Step 3: Change the viewing direction
**Description:**  
Use the directional controls (e.g., **North**, **South**, **East**, **West**) to view the location from different angles.  

![obliques_direction](https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/obliques_direction.gif){height="" width=""}

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### Step 4: Check the image capture date
**Description:**  
Confirm when the imagery was captured by checking the date displayed on the lower left hand side of the image overlay.  
![Obliques_date](https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/Obliques_date.png){height="" width="600"}

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### Step 5: Save an image (optional)
**Description:**  
Right-click on the oblique image and choose **“Save Image As”** from your browser’s menu to download it as a JPEG file.  
![Obliques_save](https://cdn.document360.io/64eb4fa4-1b3d-47a1-871b-be0277fc940e/Images/Documentation/Obliques_save.png){height="" width=""}

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## <span style="color:rgb(255,16,61)"> Tips
- If oblique imagery does not appear, zoom in further or check that your location is within coverage.  
- More than one image may be available for each direction — use the navigation controls to browse all options.  
- If the Oblique layer is not visible, verify that you have selected the correct layer and are zoomed in to a covered area.  
- If you cannot save an image, try your browser’s right-click menu. Note that some browsers may limit image saving depending on settings or permissions.  
    
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