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/*! \page geolocation_page Geolocation
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\section geo_overview Overview
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The Geolocation window shows artifacts that have longitude and latitude attributes as waypoints on a map. In the field when access to online map tile servers may not be available, the Geolocation window provides support for offline map tile data sources.
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\image html geo_main.png
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\section geo_usage Usage
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To open the geolocation window, go to "Tools" and then select "Geolocation".
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\subsection geo_navigation General Usage
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You can move the map by clicking and dragging, and zoom using either the mouse wheel or the slider in the bottom left. If a map tile is not available the tile will appear grey but the waypoints will still be displayed.
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You can left click on a waypoint to highlight that waypoint and show a details pop-up in the upper right corner of the map. The details pop-up will be updated as you click on different waypoints. The data displayed will vary depending on the type of waypoint -
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\subsection geo_filter Filtering
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The filters are displayed on the left side of the screen. The top filter lets you filter the waypoints by only showing the most recent ones. When using this filter you can also choose whether you want to see waypoints with no timestamp. The second filter allows you to show waypoints only for the selected data sources.
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If desired, the filter panel can be hidden by clicking on the vertical "Filters" tab. Clicking on that tab a second time will restore the filters panel.
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\subsection geo_report Generating a Report
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\section geo_map_options Map Tile Options
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<p>The Autopsy Geolocation window supports several map tile data source options. The map tile data source can be changed
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on the Geolocation panel in the Options dialog. There are four options for Geolocation tile data, two of which can be used offline.
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<ul>
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<li><b>Default online tile server</b>
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<ul>
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<li>The default Geolocation window tile data source is the Microsoft Virtual Earth server bing.com\maps.
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</ul>
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<li><b>OpenStreetMap server</b>
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<ul>
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<li>You can specify the address of a OSM tile server. A list of online tile servers can be found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers.
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Tile servers may have restrictions on them that prevent Autopsy from accessing their tiles. If the tiles URL is something of the form "http://tiles.example.org/${z}/${x}/${y}.png",
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then you'll need to enter "http://tiles.example.org" in the options panel.
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\image html geo_openstreetmap.png
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</ul>
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<li><b>OpenStreetMap zip file</b>
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<ul>
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<li>Allows offline use of zip file of OSM tile images
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<li>Details on how to generate tile zip files are \ref geo_generate_zip "below".
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</ul>
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<li><b>MBTiles file</b>
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<ul>
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<li>Allows offline use of MBTiles file containing raster tiles.
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<li>MBTiles raster tiles files can be downloaded from <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/planet/">OpenMapTiles</a>.
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<li>OpenMapTiles provides downloads of MBTile files for areas as large as the whole planet to as small as regions of countries.
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<li>For each of these regions there are at least four MBTiles available for download, please be sure to download one of the "Raster Tile" files,
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not the "Vector Tiles".
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</ul>
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</ul>
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\subsection geo_generate_zip Using Maperative to Generate Tile Image Zip Files
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Maperative is a tool for drawing maps, however it can also be used to create tile images. Maperative download and documentations can be found at http://maperitive.net/ .
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By default Maperative uses an online tile server to generate the map. For offline use, users can supply an OpenStreetMap raw data extract.
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\subsubsection geo_generate_tile_image Generating tile image zip files using any map data source:
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<ol>
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<li>Download and run Maperative.
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<li>Center and Zoom in on area of interest. The larger the area the more tiles that will be generated. Tiles will be generated for the area visible in the map panel.
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<li>Choose whether you want to use the default zoom levels or custom ones. Zoom levels in Mapertive start at 1. As the zoom level increases so will the quantity of tiles generated as well as the detail of each tile. Generating tiles, especially for heavily populated areas may take time, please be patient with either method.
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<ul>
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<li>To generate tiles using the default zoom levels, select Tools->Generate Tiles
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\image html geo_gen_tiles.png
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Maperative will generate tiles for zoom levels depending on the area of interest and the zoom level. For example, if you start all the way zoomed out, you will likely see levels 1 through 10 generated. If you start zoomed in, you might see levels 10 through 14.
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<li>Maperative provides a command interface which allows you to generate tiles for specific zoom levels. Commands can be run in the Command prompt text field at the bottom of the Maperative window. For a full list of commands see the Maperative documentation or http://maperitive.net/docs/ The <tt>generate-tiles</tt> command can be used to generate tiles for the area visible in the map panel area. For full details on generate-tiles see the documentation included with Maperative or http://maperitive.net/docs/Commands/GenerateTiles.html The following is a sample command to generate tiles for zoom level 2 to 3 into the folder Tiles:
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\verbatim generate-tiles minzoom=2 maxzoom=3 tilesdir=C:\Tiles \endverbatim
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\image html geo_command_line.png
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</ul>
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<li>For use in autopsy, the generated tile images need to be in a zip file. To create a zip of tiles for use in Autopsy, zip up all of the folders in the tile file output directory. Do not include the parent directory, just the numbered folders contained within. If you use the menu bar option or did not specify a folder in your command the generated tiles will be located in <Maperative Install Location>\\Tiles.
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\image html geo_tile_folder.png
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Be sure to zip only the contents of the folder, not the top level folder.
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</ol>
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\subsubsection geo_add_ds Adding a data source to Maperative
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Maperative can be used to generate tiles using raw data extracts from OpenStreetMaps. Data extracts (*.osm or *.osm.pbf) files can be downloaded from various locations. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm for a list of locations. Geofabrik's free download server has open OpenStreetMap data extracts for many regions. When using OSM raw data extracts in Maperative, the recommendation is to use smaller (.osm) files.
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To add a data source to Maperative:
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<ol>
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<li>Select from the menu bar File->Open Map Source...
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\image html geo_add_ds.png
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<li>The new data source will appear in the bottom right corner of the window in the "Map Sources" list.
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<li>To disable a Map Source, select the Map Source from the list and click the X button.
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</ol>
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\subsubsection geo_merge_osm Merging OSM raw data extracts
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For ease of use, users may want to merge OSM raw data extracts. OSMConvert is a tool that can be used to merge OSM raw data extracts.
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To merge two OSM raw data extracts country1.osm.pbf and country2.osm.pbf use the following commands. Note that this assumes that osmcovert and the files are in the same directory; if they are not be sure to use full paths.
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\verbatim
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osmconvert country1.osm.pbf -o=country1.o5m
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osmconvert country2.osm.pbf -o=country2.o5m
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osmconvert country1.o5m country2.o5m -o=together.o5m
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osmconvert together.o5m -o=together.osm.pbf
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\endverbatim
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*/ |