Aerial tagging for drone pilots and media companies
You already deliver the photos. A labeled version of the best frame — nearby schools, parks, and shops pinned, with drive times — is a second deliverable from a shoot you have already flown.
A second deliverable from the same flight
Most aerial packages ship raw and edited stills. Agents then paste arrows and text boxes onto them in whatever tool they have, usually badly. Producing the labeled version yourself keeps that work — and the quality of it — with you.
It costs one picture credit the first time an image is downloaded, and every later download of that image is free, so a round of client revisions does not cost anything extra.
Fly for taggability
- Frame wide enough to include the streets and landmarks you will want to pin, not only the parcel
- Leave open space in the composition — labels need somewhere to sit
- Shoot at the highest resolution the camera offers
- Archive the untouched file from the camera, EXIF intact, and upload that one
- Stay on one camera and lens setup through a shoot when you can
The last two matter more than they look. Auto-Tag depends on the EXIF location and camera data in the original file, and calibration is specific to a camera and lens combination.
Placement improves as you correct it
The first time you work with a new camera and lens, your corrections are teaching the system. Deliberately correct at least two geographic dots on each of two original photos from that setup, and AerialTag builds a private calibration profile for your account, then reuses it to improve future Auto-Tag starting points for the same camera and lens.
Once the profile exists, teaching is optional. Turn on "Teach Auto-Tag with this image" before correcting dots when you want that image to feed the profile. The profile stays private to your account and does not learn image recognition, amenity identity, or data from other users.
Working through a set of images
A project holds a property's images along with their pins and settings, so a shoot stays together instead of scattering across files. Upload the frames worth labeling, work through them, and export the ones the client signs off on.
A Downloaded badge marks images that have already used their one-time credit, which makes it easy to see what another revision round will and will not cost.
What to hand the client
Deliver the clean aerial and the labeled aerial as a pair. The clean one is the photograph; the labeled one is the explanation. Agents use them in different places — the hero shot in the gallery, the labeled one in social posts and buyer emails — and the pair is an easier upsell than either on its own.
Common questions
- Does it work with any drone?
- Any clear aerial or overhead image works. Auto-Tag suggestions need usable EXIF location and camera data in the file; when that data is missing, you place pins manually and everything else is the same.
- What quality are the exports?
- Exports are high quality and ready to publish, and they are built from the file you upload — so upload the highest-resolution original you have.
- Can my team share one calibration profile?
- No. Calibration is private to the account that created it and specific to a camera and lens setup. It is not shared between accounts.
- How do credits work across revisions?
- One credit covers an image's first successful download. Editing is always free, and every later download of that same image is free too, no matter how many rounds of changes it goes through.