Upload photos, label them by building side, and capture the map or 3D scene as an image you can draw on — all stripped of device metadata before it uploads.
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Open the Photos tab in the right icon sidebar, in the Intel group alongside Radio, Events, and Notes. Every photo you upload or capture there attaches to the incident.
Click Upload Photos to pick one or more images from your device. Each file is capped at 20 MB; anything larger, or anything that is not an image, is refused, and the rest of the batch still uploads.
Label each photo with the building side it shows: A, B, C, D, or AV for an aerial or overhead view. The sides run clockwise from the front — A is the front, B is the left side, C is the rear, D is the right side. A photo can carry more than one label, which is what a corner shot needs: tag it A and B and it shows on both.
A photo that still carries its camera's location lands on the map as a pin at that spot. If the photo also carries a compass heading, the pin gets a shaded cone pointing the direction the camera faced when the shutter fired. Rotate the map and the cone turns with it, so it keeps pointing the same real-world direction.
Capture Map View in the Photos panel, or the Snapshot button on the toolbar, turns the current view into a photo. Choose Full Tactical, which keeps every overlay — vehicles, hoselines, conditions — or Clean Satellite, imagery only. Switch to the aerial 3D view first and the same Snapshot button captures the 3D scene instead, overlays and all.
Every captured image lands in the Photos panel tagged AV for aerial view. Open it and click Annotate to draw on it: fire, smoke, water, and collapse-zone markers, plus hoselines, ladders, arrows, and text — the same set you place on the tactical map.
A map or 3D capture carries Google's map credit baked into the image itself. You cannot crop or edit it out, and a capture is barred by construction from ever being used as input to an image-generating feature — it exists to be looked at.
A photo labeled by side tells the app's building analysis which face of the structure it is looking at, so the more sides you label, the better that read gets. See the AI features section for what building analysis does and does not do.
Photos are stored under the incident that captured them. Delete the incident and its photos are removed from storage along with the record — there is no separate photo library to clean up afterward.