Changelog

SkyGIS Pro just received its biggest targeted feature expansion to date! Built from the ground up for road and railway construction, this update equips both surveyors and designers with powerful new tools—plus a round of quality-of-life polish to keep your projects running seamlessly. Let's dive in.

Road and Railway monitoring toolkit

Designed to streamline site monitoring, this feature package empowers construction teams to track progress against design using point clouds, IFC models, and LandXML files. Building on our established deviation analysis capabilities, SkyGIS Pro now offers complete alignment flexibility—automatically recognizing LandXML alignments, converting existing layers or lines, or letting you extract custom polylines. Using these alignments as a baseline, you can run surface difference calculations across IFC, LandXML, TIN, or point cloud data to compute cut-and-fill volumes at custom stationing increments.

Explore alignments effortlessly with the all-new browser bar, giving you complete control to filter and isolate critical site data.

Once a surface difference calculation is run, SkyGIS Pro provides versatile visualization tools—including column charts, tabular views, and cross-section displays—to streamline monitoring and mapping workflows. Export insights seamlessly via PDF reports, detailed DXF drawings, or raw CSV files for downstream analysis. You can also generate derived point clouds, orthoimages, and 3D models to ensure complete material tracking throughout the construction lifecycle.

We are continuously refining these capabilities to bring intuitive, cost-effective site monitoring tools to an even broader range of users.

IFC - LandXML export

IFC and LandXML serve different scenarios. While surveyors primarily use LandXML for linear construction, architects and designers rely more on IFC. Converting between these two formats is not always straightforward—and sometimes not possible—because LandXML cannot handle vertical surfaces.

To bridge this, we have introduced an experimental feature that extracts surfaces directly from IFCs for surface difference calculations. While results depend on the quality of the source IFC file, this option offers a major time-saving shortcut for standard site models.

Generate difference mesh from LandXML files

In some scenarios, calculating total volume isn't enough to evaluate the full scope of surface changes—you need a detailed visual model. We’ve introduced a LandXML-to-LandXML difference mesh (or 3D body) generator that creates a color-coded 3D model mapping the exact elevation deltas between surfaces.

Mosaic51 camera support

Our system now supports Mosaic51 camera formats. Mosaic51 is a premier developer of camera-centric mobile mapping solutions, and this update enables users to effortlessly process point clouds and high-quality images generated by the Mosaic Meridian and associated scanners.

Improvements and fixes

The following things has been improved or fixed based on user feedbacks:

• New user organisations now have a Demo Project that features various data types

• We have enhanced the processing display to provide further information during and after the processing tasks

• Icon refubishment has been performed in the toolbars, view type setting now has a 3-way switch

• Jump to center option become available for even more data types

• Now you can change the rotation center using double-left click in the viewer

That’s all for now, but stay tuned for future updates!

With this tiny release, we've introduced the following quality-of-life improvements:

Enhanced Classification Display

The available classifications can now be further customised for all view types, allowing you to tailor the visualisation to your needs. The settings can be applied either to a single point cloud file or to all point cloud files within the project.

Stockpile function availability in SkyGIS Viewer

Based on user feedback, the manual stockpile calculation tool is now available across all Viewer packages!

Simply extract the base of the stockpile, choose the desired resolution, and optionally specify the material. The volume is calculated in just a few seconds. Fast, intuitive, and compatible with all point clouds.

Other Features and Improvements

• Introduced the new SkyGIS Viewer and SkyGIS Pro logos across the website.

• Custom Branding for SkyGIS Pro now supports custom domains, allowing organisations to access their portal through their own branded URL.

• Added support for South Brand SLAM Scanner undistorted image packages.

• Implemented multiple bug fixes and performance improvements.

As always, if you have an idea for a new feature or run into a bug, we'd love to hear from you. Your feedback helps us keep improving SkyGIS.

This release brings a range of new features and enhancements across SkyGIS.

Simplified POI Creation

Adding Points of Interest is now effortless. Just right-click anywhere in the point cloud, select Add POI, and enter your comment - the POI appears instantly, with no need to create a separate vector layer first.

Saved Views

You asked, we listened. You can now save your current view directly from the Saved Views option in the Layer Panel, with support for both private and shared views. Each saved view retains camera settings, layer states, and clipping box parameters, so you can jump back to any important perspective in a single click.

Deviation Analysis Report

Deviation rasters and point clouds are now accompanied by a comprehensive PDF report. It captures key deviation metrics, calculated volumes, cut/fill values, and a visual rendering to help you orient yourself within the project area. The result is detailed, professional surface-to-cloud deviation documentation - clear records of your results and dependable volume calculations to support planning, validation, and decision-making on future construction and earthworks projects.

Enhanced Orthographic Camera

The Orthographic Camera now offers an optional grid overlay, toggled on in the settings. The grid adapts dynamically to your current view and scale, letting you quickly gauge distances and spatial relationships directly within the data. By providing a consistent visual reference across perspectives, it streamlines navigation, interpretation, and measurement.

License Plate and Face Blurring

The first release of our automatic license plate and face blurring tools is here, supporting privacy-protection workflows.

Measurement Snapping

Snapping can now be enabled from the settings menu. It supports endpoints, center points, and edges for more precise measurements.

LandXML Deviation Analysis

Deviation Analysis now works with LandXML surfaces, so you can run deviation analysis directly against LandXML-based terrain and design surfaces — giving you more flexibility when comparing surveyed data against project specifications.

Other Features and Improvements

• Measurement Improvements — Delete all measurements at once, instead of removing them one by one.

• Billing Manager Role — A new dedicated role for managing your organization's billing.

• GeoPackage Support — Upload vector data in the GeoPackage (GPKG) format.

• Google KML/KMZ Support — Import Google KML and KMZ files for use as vector layers in SkyGIS.

• GeoTIFF Enhancements — Orthophoto generation from point clouds is now even smoother: an orthophoto can be created right after upload, removing extra processing steps and speeding up data preparation.

• Batch Naming — Your company logo now appears in shared links, helping partners and clients connect your brand to the products and deliverables you share.

As always, if you have an idea for a new feature or run into a bug, we'd love to hear from you. Your feedback helps us keep improving SkyGIS.