Location is how Interaxo connects your project's processes, documents and tasks to a specific place. Each workspace's locations list can hold one or more Model locations (3D building models loaded from IFC files) and a single Map area. Both representations share the same processes, search, roles and permissions, so a registration anchored to a Model location and one anchored the Map behave the same way - you just choose where to anchor it.

Model and Map are not mutually exclusive. A project can use both, one, or neither, depending on what the work needs.

Model

Map

What Location does for your project

• Anchors work to where it is. Registrations, processes and documents tie to a specific spot - a wall in a building, a stretch of road, a point on a site - so people on the project can follow up by place, not just by list.
• Connects field and office. Field users can place new registrations from the model or the map; office users open the same registration and see the same anchor.
• Same processes, same roles. Switching from a Model placement to a Map placement on a registration doesn't change what processes apply, who can see it, or how it's searched.

Model

Model is the 3D representation. Each Model location holds one or more discipline IFC files (for example architecture, structural, electrical), and the viewer combines them into a single 3D scene you can pan, zoom and walk through in the browser.

Use Model when:

• The project has IFC models available.
• You need to look inside buildings, or anchor registrations to specific objects (walls, doors, equipment).
• Discipline coordination - comparing model versions, finding rooms, isolating object types - is part of the workflow.

For more on what the 3D viewer can do, see Features in the 3D Viewer in Interaxo Model.

Map

Interaxo Map is the 2D geographic representation. Each workspace has a single Map with a project area that let's you place registrations on a base map drawn from sources like Open Street Map.

Use Map when:

• The project covers an area you'd describe in geographic terms - a road stretch, a campus, a city block, a region.
• Field users need to navigate by address or by their current device position.
• You don't have IFC models, or the model isn't enough on its own like outdoor electrical lighting or piping.

For more on what the Map viewer can do, see Features in the Map viewer in Interaxo Map.

Enabling and configuring Location

Location is enabled per workspace by an admin in Interaxo Admin (the Project model and map setting in workspace settings). After enabling, the admin can configure Model locations and Map areas from the workspace's locations list.

The model viewer will be available if Model locations are configured and the map viewer to projects that configure the Map area. You can work with only one of these if your project preferres to. 

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