Spatial search

With the Map view on the Data page, you can view geoscience objects projected onto a map. Spatial search shows all geoscience objects in workspaces you have permissions for, if those objects contain Coordinate Reference System (CRS) information. This is useful in understanding what data is available in a region of interest. You can then open the object in the Evo 3D Viewer and inspect it in relation to other data objects in that workspace.

Whether an object’s location can be displayed on the map depends on whether an object includes CRS information. Only objects that include CRS information can be displayed on the map.

To start searching for geoscience objects, click on Data in the sidebar (A). If the workspaces list is displayed, you can hide it by clicking the List button (B) at the top of the window:

The map opens zoomed out showing the total number of geoscience objects stored in your workspaces, organised by location (A). From the map menu, you can change the layers displayed on the map (B):

You can view the map in 3D, which is what is shown above, or in 2D, which may be more useful for getting an overview of the geoscience objects in your workspaces, if your workspaces are in different locations around the world. Use the 2D/3D button next to the layers list to switch between the two views:

To see what objects are available in an area, click on the number displayed for a location until the list of objects (C) is displayed. To see more information about a specific object, click on its overflow menu (D):

What options are available depends on the type of object, but for most objects you will be able to:

• View more details about the object
• Zoom in to the object’s extents
• Open the object in the 3D Viewer

Viewing object details

Viewing an object’s details displays the same object information that is displayed when browsing through the workspaces list.

See Viewing object details in the Geoscience objects topic for more information.

Zooming to extents

Clicking on an object in the list displays its extents as a shaded box, as is shown here for the DEM Balcooma mesh:

If the object’s extents are not apparent, it can be because you are zoomed out too far or in too close. Click on the object’s overflow menu and choose Zoom to extents to get a clearer view of the object and its extents.

Opening an object in the 3D Viewer

From the map, you can open an object in the 3D Viewer. To do this, choose Open in Viewer from the object’s overflow menu. This opens the workspace the object belongs to in the 3D Viewer. The selected object is displayed (A) and you can add further objects from that workspace to the scene from the Objects list (B):

See the 3D Viewer help for detailed information on displaying geoscience objects.