Supported data
Will it take
my data?
Usually yes — and where the answer is no, it is here rather than in a support reply after you have already uploaded.
The list
What you can upload
| ✓ Yes | Raw flight photos (JPG/PNG) From any drone. We reconstruct them into the full deliverable set. |
| ✓ Yes | Photos from a DSLR or a phone Same pipeline. They need location data in the file — see below. |
| ✓ Yes | A finished export from DJI Terra, Pix4D, Metashape, WebODM Zip the export folder and upload it (included with Pilot and Fleet, and during the free trial). DJI Terra is the most-tested path; the classifier reads by file type and name, not by vendor. |
| ✓ Yes | RTK-corrected images Positions already corrected in the image are read and preserved. |
| ✗ No | Camera raw .dng, .cr2, .cr3, .nef, .arw, .orf, .heic Refused at the door on purpose. The reconstruction engine cannot read them, so accepting the upload would spend your time and your credits and then fail. Export to JPG or PNG first. |
| ✗ No | Raw LiDAR (L1 / L2 point clouds) We are photogrammetry. A LiDAR flight needs a platform that processes it. |
| ✗ No | Thermal and multispectral No radiometric thermal maps and no NDVI. |
| ✗ No | 360° panoramic captures Spherical imagery needs a different reconstruction path and a different viewer. |
| ✗ No | Video Frames pulled from video have no reliable per-frame position. Fly stills. |
gcp_list.txt — from WebODM’s GCP editor, Metashape or
POSM — but it goes on the Control step of a raw-photo project, on its own. Mix
it in with the photos and it is left out with no error: the browser bundles the
imagery and nothing else, the job succeeds, and the map is positioned by the drone’s
GPS alone — which you would find out from the accuracy, days later.
The one real requirement
Your photos need to know where they were taken
Nearly every drone writes GPS position into each image and there is nothing for you to do. It matters for phone and DSLR captures, where location is often switched off: without it there is nothing to place the map on the earth with, and the reconstruction cannot be georeferenced. Turn location services on before the shoot, or bring ground control.
We do not keep a list of supported drones or cameras, because we do not have one in the software: what matters is the file, not the badge on the aircraft. If it writes JPG/PNG with position in the EXIF, it works.
How much
Photos per map
The cap is per map, not per month, and it is the only hard size limit.
| Scout | 1,000 photos per map |
| Pilot | 3,000 photos per map |
| Fleet | 10,000 photos per map |
What you pick is checked in the browser before a single byte uploads — file types and your plan’s limit — so an upload that would fail is caught while you can still do something about it. Raw photos need no zipping: your browser bundles them for you.