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MGN Civil Project Photo Library
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All Photos
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Supports JPG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF & MP4 — EXIF date, GPS & direction extracted from file (if present) Note that viewing HEIC is only supported on Mac or iPhone devices
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Select a folder to view photos
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Site Photo Gallery
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📁 Create New Folder
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MGN Civil Photo Gallery — Help
🔑 Signing In
When you open the gallery for the first time (or after your session has expired) the login screen appears automatically.
Login screen
Login modal — enter your email address and password, then click Sign In
First loginIf your account was just created, you'll be asked to set a permanent password. Enter and confirm it, then click Set Password.
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Forgotten password?Contact your MGN Civil administrator to reset your account.
🖥 The Main Interface
Main gallery — Grid view
Main interface — header bar, folder sidebar (①), toolbar and photo grid (②)
Area
What it does
Header bar
MGN Civil logo · your email · bucket · Refresh · Help · Sign Out
Sidebar (left)
Folder tree. Click any folder to open it. New Folder button at top.
Toolbar
Grid / List / Carousel buttons · breadcrumb trail · photo count · Upload Here
Gallery area
Photos displayed in the selected view mode
📁 Navigating Folders
The sidebar lists all project folders. Click any folder name to open it — the currently active folder shows a 📂 open-folder icon. Use the breadcrumb at the top of the gallery to jump back up the folder tree.
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Folders are built automatically from S3 key prefixes. They appear as soon as photos are uploaded into them.
⊞ Grid View
The default view. Photos appear as cards. Each card shows the thumbnail, filename, date, GPS and a Download button.
An amber bar below the thumbnail means a note is attached to that photo
A blue 360° badge marks panorama photos — clicking opens the panorama viewer
MP4 video → opens in a new tab for native playback
☰ List View
Switch using the ☰ List button in the toolbar. A compact table shows number, thumbnail, filename, date, GPS and a download icon per row.
Notes appear as a small amber bar beneath the filename
GPS coordinates are clickable — they open Google Maps
The direction arrow (↗ 274° SW) shows which way the camera was pointing
▷ Carousel View
Full-screen slide show. One photo at a time with a thumbnail filmstrip along the bottom.
Use ←→ arrow keys, or click the on-screen arrows
Click any thumbnail to jump directly to that photo
Active thumbnail is highlighted in blue and auto-scrolls into view
Scroll wheel or + / − to zoom
Click the note field below the filename to add or edit a note
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360° photos in Carousel A blue Open 360° View button appears. Click it to open the panorama viewer.
🔍 Lightbox & Zoom
Click any photo in Grid or List view to open it fullscreen in the Lightbox.
Lightbox
Lightbox — scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click note bar to edit in place
Scroll wheelZoom in / out smoothly
Click photoToggle 2× zoom / reset
+ / −Zoom in / out in 25% steps
⊡ ResetReturn to 100%
DragPan when zoomed in (cursor = ✋)
EscClose lightbox
🔭 360° Panorama Viewer
Photos from 360° cameras (GoPro Max, Ricoh Theta, Insta360…) open in the full-screen panorama viewer, detected automatically from embedded XMP metadata.
DragLook around — pan in any direction
Scroll wheelZoom field of view
+ / −Zoom steps
⛶Toggle fullscreen
EscClose viewer
The compass (top-right) shows your current viewing direction. The initial heading is set from the camera's XMP metadata — so the panorama opens facing exactly where the camera was pointing on-site.
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Auto-detection 360° photos are detected from XMP ProjectionType=equirectangular. Fallback: put _360 in the filename or place photos in a folder named 360.
📝 Adding & Editing Notes
Attach text to any photo — flag defects, record observations, add site context. Notes are shared across all users and saved to S3.
From the Lightbox
Open any photo in the Lightbox
Click the 📝 note bar below the image
Type your note
Click Save or press Ctrl+Enter
From Carousel view
Click the note field in the info bar below the photo name. A prompt dialog appears — type and click OK.
From the 360° Viewer
The footer bar has the same inline editor. Click, type, and Save.
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Delete a note Open the editor, clear all text, then Save. An empty note is removed.
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Notes are stored in a _notes.json file in the same S3 folder. Each note records the text, your email address, and the timestamp.
⬆ Uploading Photos
Navigate to the destination folder in the sidebar
Click ⬆ Upload Here — or drag & drop files onto the zone that appears
A progress bar appears per file. Green = done.
Before each upload the gallery automatically reads EXIF (date, GPS, compass), detects 360° XMP tags, and stores everything in S3 — so badges and metadata appear instantly.
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Multiple files Upload any number at once — they queue and upload three at a time. Drone and 360° files can be 50–100 MB; the gallery uses AWS multipart upload so large files chunk automatically.
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Don't close the tab while uploading. The panel closes automatically when all files finish.
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Upload to the right folder first. Moving photos between folders is not supported in the browser UI.
📂 Creating New Folders
Navigate to where the new folder should live (or stay at root for a top-level folder)
Click + New Folder in the sidebar header
Enter a name — e.g. Site Inspection – April 2026
Click Create Folder
Avoid / \ * ? " < > in names. Spaces are fine. The new folder appears immediately and is selected automatically.
⬇ Downloading Photos
View
How to download
Grid
Click the ⬇ Download button on the photo card
List
Click the ↓ icon on the right of any row
Carousel
Click ⬇ Download in the info bar
Lightbox
Click the ↓ icon in the bottom-right control bar
Downloads always retrieve the original full-resolution file.
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Download links use short-lived signed credentials and cannot be shared directly. To send a photo externally, download it first then send the file.
📍 GPS & Compass Data
Data
Description
📍 Coordinates
Lat/lon to 5 decimal places (≈ 1 m). Click 🗺 to open in Google Maps.
↗ Direction arrow
Rotates to the camera bearing — the direction the lens was pointing
Bearing label
e.g. 274° SW — degrees plus 8-point cardinal
🧭 In 360° viewer
Sets the initial view heading so panorama opens facing where the camera pointed
If a photo has no GPS the field shows No GPS in grey — this is normal for indoor shots or cameras with location disabled.
⌨ Keyboard Shortcuts
←→Previous / next photo (Carousel)
EscClose Lightbox or 360° viewer
Ctrl+EnterSave note (while note editor is open)
EscCancel note edit
Scroll wheelZoom (Lightbox & Carousel)
🗂 Supported File Types
Type
Extensions
Notes
JPEG
.jpg.jpeg
Full EXIF + 360° XMP support
PNG
.png
No EXIF date or GPS
HEIC/HEIF
.heic.heif
iPhone native. Displays on Mac/iPhone. Placeholder on Windows/Android.
WebP / BMP
.webp.bmp
Supported; no EXIF
TIFF
.tif
Supported but large — prefer JPEG for site photos
MP4 Video
.mp4
Plays natively in Carousel; opens new tab from Grid/List
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HEIC on Windows & Android Thumbnails show as grey placeholders — the original file is always preserved at full quality and can be downloaded.
🔧 Troubleshooting
Photos not loading / broken images
Click ↺ Refresh in the header bar
Check your internet connection
Sign out and back in — your session may have expired
"CORS Error" banner at top of page
An AWS configuration issue. Contact your system administrator — the S3 CORS policy needs updating.
