Per-tour switches for what visitors get.
In the editor rail, Tour Features holds per-tour switches. The first is the launch tutorial: on (the default) greets every visitor with the welcome card and offers the tutorial; off skips it everywhere that tour appears, including embeds on other websites. More switches will land here as features grow.
Pick a default destination and every visitor who opens Navigate finds the To box already set to it, one press from a route to your most-asked-for spot. It is a convenience, nothing more: visitors change it freely, and leaving the setting empty keeps the box blank.
Type a tag in the Featured tags box and press Add to promote it, up to six. In the tour they appear as one-tap buttons at the top of the menu: a tap lists every destination carrying that tag, and when only one place matches, the visitor is routed straight there. Remove one with its small x to free the slot.
The Map Zoom drawer sets the fence: zoom the map to the closest view you want visitors to reach and flip the zoom-in lock, then do the same at the widest and flip the zoom-out lock, or type the exact levels in the number boxes. Hold still at full zoom-out keeps the map from sliding when the whole property is already on screen; zoomed in, the map follows points as always.
The Home view is the framing the tour map returns to. Center on the property map rests it framed on your uploaded property map on every screen size, or pan and zoom to any framing you like and flip Use the current view to freeze exactly that.
With Return Home when idle on, the tour map waits three seconds after the visitor stops touching it, then drifts back to the Home view, so the map always ends up composed the way you designed it. It stays put while a route is running.
Upload a property map and the editor header gains a toggle button, just left of Export. It flips the stage between Google satellite and your property map, and its label names the one it will switch you to: Property Map or Google Map. Until a property map exists the button is hidden.
It is an editor convenience, so you can work on the Google satellite underneath your own map. There is no matching control in the tour: visitors never switch backdrops themselves. What they open on is decided by Visitors start on this map in the Property Map drawer.
Zoom limits and the Home view are not per backdrop. There is one Zoom limits setting and one Home view setting, both in the Map Zoom drawer, and they apply to whichever backdrop is showing. If the tour has layers, each layer keeps its own pair.
The Logo drawer is the one home for tour branding. Add or replace the image, choose where it sits, size it, and optionally give it a link so a click sends visitors to your website. The logo rides on every point of the tour, including embeds on other sites, and removing it takes one press in the same drawer.
The Logo row in the Tour section of the left rail opens the Logo drawer, the one home for everything about your tour's on-screen logo: add or replace the image, set its size, give it a click-through link, and remove it. Clicking the row again closes the drawer.
There is one logo per tour, and it shows to visitors on the 360 view, the Map view and the Split view. Important: the logo on the photo is draggable and resizable only while this drawer is open. The moment the drawer closes, the logo locks in place and ignores the mouse entirely, so it can never get in the way of looking around the tour.
Open it whenever you are branding a tour for a client. Typical flow: click Logo, add the image, drag it into a corner, set the size, paste the client's website into the link field, then close the drawer to lock it down.
Back closes the Logo drawer. Everything you changed, the image, position, size and link, is already saved, so closing loses nothing.
Closing also locks the logo: it stops responding to dragging and scrolling the instant the drawer shuts, which is by design so visitors and later editing sessions can never nudge it by accident. To move or resize it again, reopen the drawer from the Logo rail row.
This button reads Add logo image when the tour has no logo and Replace logo image once it does. Either way it opens a file picker that accepts any image type, reads the file, and puts it on screen. A brand-new logo lands near the top-left corner at 14 percent of the screen width. A replacement keeps the existing position, size and click-through link and swaps only the artwork, so re-branding a placed logo never means re-positioning it.
Click the button, choose the file, and the logo appears immediately. A toast confirms which of the two happened. The change is saved to the tour right away and recorded in history, so Undo can take it back.
Use a PNG with a transparent background so the logo floats cleanly over the photo instead of sitting in a colored box. After adding, drag the logo on the photo to place it (the drawer must stay open while you drag) and set the exact size with the Size slider below.
Click-through link is the web address that opens when a visitor clicks or taps the logo in the published tour. In the editor the logo is for placement only; the link fires for your visitors, not for you while editing.
Paste the full URL, including the https:// part, and click anywhere outside the field. The link saves at that moment and a toast confirms "Logo link saved". To remove the link without removing the logo, delete the text from the field and click away; the toast confirms "Logo link removed" and the logo becomes a plain image.
Point it at the client's homepage or booking page: it quietly turns the logo into the tour's most-clicked call to action. The field only works once a logo exists; add the image first. Replacing the image keeps the link, but Remove logo deletes it along with everything else.
The Size slider sets the logo's width from 3 to 60 percent of the viewer's screen width, in half-percent steps. The readout beside the label shows the rounded value. Because it is a percentage of the screen rather than a pixel count, the logo scales itself sensibly on every device: 14 percent looks proportionally the same on a phone and a big monitor. Height follows automatically to keep the image's own proportions.
Drag the slider and the logo resizes live on the photo. The value saves itself a moment after you stop moving, so there is no save button to press. You can also resize by scrolling the mouse wheel directly over the logo while the drawer is open, if that feels more natural.
10 to 18 percent is the sweet spot for a corner logo: visible branding without covering the tour. The 14 percent default suits most marks. Go bigger only for a deliberate watermark effect, and remember visitors came to see the property, not the logo.
Remove logo deletes the tour's logo entirely: the image, its position, its size and its click-through link all go at once. A confirmation dialog asks "Remove the logo?" first, so a stray click cannot wipe it.
Click the button, confirm, and the logo disappears immediately; the removal saves to the tour right away and is recorded in history, so Undo can bring it back within the session. The next logo you add starts fresh at the default corner position and 14 percent width, with an empty link.
Only use this when the tour should carry no logo at all. If you just need different artwork, Replace logo image is the better tool: it swaps the picture and keeps the placement and link you already dialed in.
The logo itself is a live control while the Logo drawer is open. Drag it with the left mouse button to put it anywhere on screen; the position is clamped so it can never be pushed fully off the edge, and it saves the moment you release. Scroll the mouse wheel over it to resize in 2 percent steps, or hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) while scrolling for fine half-percent steps, within the same 3 to 60 percent range as the Size slider.
When the drawer is closed the logo is completely inert: it ignores clicks, drags and scrolls so it can never interfere with panning the photo. If dragging seems dead, check that the drawer is open; that is the lock working as intended.
Position and size are stored as percentages of the screen, so where you place it in the editor is where visitors see it in the published tour, on 360, Map and Split views alike. Corners are the professional choice; keep it clear of the bottom center where navigation controls live. Whatever you set here rides along untouched when you later replace the image.
Launch tutorial controls whether visitors are greeted with the welcome card and tutorial when this tour opens. It is on by default, and it applies everywhere this tour appears, including embeds on other websites.
Check or uncheck; the setting saves immediately with no confirm step. With it off, tours skip the welcome through its normal dismiss path rather than just hiding it, so everything the welcome normally arms, like the walk control, still works: visitors simply land straight in the tour.
Keep it on for first-time audiences: customers, public links, anyone who has never driven a 360 tour. Turn it off for embeds where the surrounding page already explains things, or for repeat-viewing situations like a kiosk, where the greeting on every open becomes noise.
Property Map, under Map in the Build rail, lays the property's own drawn map over the satellite. Campgrounds, resorts, fairgrounds and campuses all have a map visitors already know. Floor plans go here too.
In the 360 view there is nothing to align, so switch to Map or Split first with the View chips in the header. The drawer opens on a card titled Property map overlay, with three tabs. Map holds the image and how it looks. Placement holds where it sits on the world. Color holds a flat color painted under the map. The keyboard shortcut is L, and Back closes the drawer.
Points stay placed by GPS. Once the drawing is pinned, they land on it on their own.
The editor takes four kinds of picture: PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG. It does not take a PDF. Most property maps arrive as a PDF, so open it and export a PNG instead. Any PDF reader does that.
If the plan exists on paper only, photograph it. Hold the phone flat and square above the sheet, in even light. A phone photo of a plan on the wall works fine.
Crop the picture down to the drawing itself, cutting away the page edges, the title block and the white border. Whatever you leave in has to be lined up on the ground later. Bigger is better up to a point, and two thousand pixels across is plenty.
Frame first. Pan and zoom the satellite until the property fills the screen. Then open Property Map, stay on the Map tab, click Upload a map image and choose your file.
The map lands on the center of your view at about sixty percent of the width. That first placement is a guess, not an alignment, so the editor turns on Align mode for you right away. A new map starts at seventy percent Opacity so you can see the ground under it, and the file name becomes the map's name.
Each map belongs to the level that was open when you uploaded it. Open the right tab first.
On the Map tab, drag Opacity down to about fifty percent so the satellite reads through the drawing. Then open the Placement tab and click Align on map. A help panel reads that Align mode is on, and an orange outline with round handles appears on the picture.
Drag the middle of the picture to move it over the right ground. Drag any of the four corner dots to resize the whole map. Drag the round dot on the stem above the top edge to rotate, and a badge shows the angle as you turn.
Match roads, roof corners and parking islands. Those are the easiest landmarks to line up. The map is anchored by real world position, not by screen pixels, so it holds at every zoom on every screen.
Dragging gets you close. These controls get you exact, so use them at the end of an alignment, not the start.
Scroll the wheel over the picture to resize in small steps. Hold Shift and scroll to rotate one degree at a time. Press an arrow key to nudge the map one pixel, and hold Shift with it to move ten. Click Turn 90° if the drawing was exported sideways. The Rotation readout shows the current angle, and rotation is freehand, so there is no snap to north.
Click Done aligning ✓ when the landmarks line up, or press Escape. Then go back to the Map tab and raise Opacity.
An outdoor site map gives you landmarks, because roads and parking lots show on the satellite. An indoor floor plan gives you none. Line up the outside instead: the roof outline on the satellite is the building, and your plan's outer walls are the same building.
Turn the drawing first, until its walls run parallel with the roof edges. Then size it until the outer walls sit on the roofline. Move it into place last.
Check it against a point you know. The front door point should land in the entry on the drawing, and if it lands in a wall the drawing is too big or turned wrong. Use the map button in the top bar to flip between the drawing and bare satellite. Two floors of one building share an outline, so align the second floor to the same roof.
Align only moves, sizes and turns the whole picture. Hand drawn maps stretch a road or square off a curve, and no amount of aligning fixes that. Free transform on the Placement tab pulls the corners apart on their own.
Eight handles appear, four square and four round. Drag a square corner handle to pull that one corner on its own. Drag a round handle on a side to move both corners of that side together. Work one corner at a time, against a landmark you can see on the satellite.
Click Done transforming ✓ when the drawing sits on the ground. Each corner is stored as a real place on the earth, so the warp survives pan, zoom, reload and the visitor's phone.
Reset shape sits on the map's card in the Placement tab, and only appears once the map has been warped. Click it and the drawing snaps back to a plain rectangle, ready for a clean start.
Two rules govern these modes. Free transform and Align on map cannot be open at the same time, so opening one closes the other. Only one map can be in Align mode at a time.
Do not drag a corner past the opposite side, because the shape collapses and the warp is dropped. Align still works on a warped map, and moving, sizing and rotating carry the warp with them.
On the Map tab, find the card for the map you want to swap, click Replace image and choose the new file. The new picture takes the old one's place, at the old position and rotation, and the free transform carries over too. Read the message that appears, because it tells you what was kept.
Export the new art at the same size as the old one. A shape change of more than one percent resets the free transform. The height follows the new picture, so a taller image gets taller on the map.
A file the editor cannot read changes nothing. The current map stays as it was.
Opacity on the Map tab decides how much satellite shows through the drawing, with a percentage readout beside the word. Drag it down to about fifty percent while you align, then back up when the map is right. It runs from five percent to one hundred percent and never goes fully clear.
Show this map hides one map without removing it, and clicking it again brings the map back. Turning it off hides the map from visitors too.
Show this map is one map. The header button switches all of them at once. Points always draw above the map, whatever the opacity says.
All points is the default and suits a whole site plan. Selected points suits a map that covers one building or one wing.
Pick the points first. Selection lives in the Points panel, not the Build rail: press ＋ New group, or open a group and use its Points card. Both carry the same three tools. Pointer clicks a pin to select or deselect, and Shift adds to the selection. Box drags a rectangle over pins. Lasso clicks around pins and closes on a double click. The counter beside them reads how many are picked.
Now open the Applies to list on the Map tab and choose Selected points. The count appears next to the words. With nothing picked, Selected points falls back to All points and tells you so. Applies to compares against the point the visitor is standing on, not the points on screen, and switching layers clears your selection.
Find the map's card on the Map tab and click Visitors start on this map so the switch reads on. It is off on every new upload, and leaving it off means the tour never shows the map.
There is no map switch for visitors to press. What you set is what they get.
A map with Show this map off never reaches the tour, whatever else is set. If a map is missing from a tour, check this switch first. It is the one that fails most often.
The color overlay sits under your property map and above Google. Use it when the drawn map ends in a hard edge, because bare satellite around a clean drawing looks wrong.
Open the Color tab and find the card titled Color overlay. Click a swatch, or click the color wheel to pick your own. The eyedropper labeled Pick a color from anywhere on the screen lifts the exact background color off your drawing. Picking a color turns the overlay on for you, so check that Show the color overlay reads on, then drag Color opacity until the satellite fades out around your map. It runs from five percent to one hundred percent.
There is one color overlay per layer, not one per map, so set it again on the next tab. It follows the header map button: switch to plain Google and the color goes too.
Click the name box at the top of a map's card on the Map tab and type a real name, such as Main Campground or Lodge Level Two. It saves as you type. Name every map you upload, on the day you upload it, because the name is also what other layers see in the Maps from other layers card.
Remove from tour takes a map out. Read the message and confirm. The image file stays in your cloud storage, but undo does not bring a removed map back, so upload it again.
Removing a map on its home layer removes it from every layer that borrowed it.
Walls, under Map in the Build rail, traces the building. The switch at the top reads Show walls on the map, and four tabs sit under it: This photo, On the map, Square up and Align.
Start on This photo, in the card Walls in this photo. Click Draw a wall and drag along a real wall in the panorama, and the wall lands on the map at the same time. Camera height is how high the camera sat, in feet: measure the pole and type that number, because a wrong height stretches or shrinks every wall you draw. A wall reaches about thirty five feet at eye height, so past that, walk closer and draw from the next point. Draw a doorway cuts an opening in a wall you already drew.
On the map draws the same two shapes straight onto the satellite, and holds Download the floor plan, which saves what you have traced. Square up turns the whole tracing onto the building's own angle, and Align nudges each point onto the wall it belongs to. Both tabs carry a Put back button that undoes their pass. One rule matters most: walls are reference drawing only. They never touch your paths and they never block a route.
One, the map was uploaded with the wrong level open, because it belongs to whichever tab was showing. Two, Show this map is off, which hides it from you and from visitors. Three, Visitors start on this map is off, so the tour opens on bare satellite.
Four, Back was clicked during Align, which closes the drawer and ends Align mode, so finish aligning before you leave. Five, a corner was dragged past the opposite side in Free transform, so the shape collapsed and the warp was dropped. Six, a replacement was exported at a different size, and a shape change of more than one percent resets the free transform.
Two more things to remember. Undo does not bring back a map you removed from the tour. And points always paint above the map, so a point that vanishes is hidden by something else, not by the map.
The editor and the tour draw the property map with the same math. What you align is what visitors get.
Turn on Visitors start on this map for the map visitors should see, then watch the sync chip in the top bar until it reads Saved. Preview reads the saved tour, so wait for Saved before you look.
Click Preview in the top bar and the tour opens in a new tab. Check that the map is already showing, not bare satellite. Walk to a point and check the pin sits where it belongs on the drawing. Walk through a door and check the destination level's map takes over. Then open the same link on a phone and check the framing there too.
Tour Info sits in the Build rail under Tour. It opens a window in the middle of the screen holding the facts about the property itself. Visitors read them behind the info button next to the tour name, and on the welcome card when the tour opens.
There are nine fields, in this order: Category, Description, Address, Phone, Email, Website, Booking link, Client / owner and Capture date. Description is the paragraph a visitor reads first, so write that one properly. Booking link is where you send somebody ready to book. There is no tour name field here. Fill in only what you want visitors to read.
This window does not save as you type. Press Save when you are done. Close discards anything typed since the last save.