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title: "Mapping Functions"
slug: "mapping-functions"
description: "The NavVis M6 user interface displays a live version of the map, which you can zoom, rotate, or pan. From the user interface, you can also pause the scan and trigger the cameras. "
updated: 2025-06-27T11:02:00Z
published: 2025-06-27T11:02:00Z
canonical: "knowledge.navvis.com/mapping-functions"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://knowledge.navvis.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Mapping Functions

## Controlling the View

| **Action** | **Meaning** |
| --- | --- |
| Zooming in or out | Swipe up or down with two fingers. |
| Rotating the map | Swipe with one finger |
| Pan | Use the pan buttons for moving around the screen. |

## Pausing the Scan

Tap the pause button ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bf174766-fa1a-4fe1-a4d7-b1db1e7cb996/Images/Documentation/pausing-the-scan-image-e7gtywag.png) to pause and resume 3D mapping and the automatic triggering of cameras.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bf174766-fa1a-4fe1-a4d7-b1db1e7cb996/Images/Documentation/pausing-the-scan-image-b69wbsor.png)

In pause mode, no images are taken and no points are added to the Point cloud. Pause mode is useful in the following scenarios:

- People are coming into view of the device (they should not appear in the point cloud or in panorama images).
- The device is being used in an area where the user does not want to capture panorama images or a point cloud but still wants to continue capturing in the same Dataset.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:**In pause mode, only the 3D mapping process is paused. Localization is always running. To avoid impairing the quality of the recorded map, **do not** move faster or less carefully than during normal mapping.

## Triggering the Cameras

Tap the camera button ![](https://cdn.document360.io/bf174766-fa1a-4fe1-a4d7-b1db1e7cb996/Images/Documentation/triggering-the-cameras-image-8u197i3w.png) to trigger the cameras manually.

Manual camera triggering is useful when:

- The user needs extra pictures of an object or area.
- Automatic triggering is inactive but the user needs to take a picture in a particular place.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:**An image is captured immediately when the camera button is pressed. As a result, the images may contain motion blur if the user is in motion.

Automatic camera triggering can be disabled in the **settings**. On the NavVis M6, automatic triggering can be disabled with a long press of the camera button.

A three-dimensional representation of an environment, made up of many points. A point is defined by x, y and z coordinates, and it may or may not contain RGB, an intensity value, and normals.

A dataset is a piece of a site, the result of a continuous recording with a NavVis mapping device or the result of an imported point cloud. Datasets can contain panoramic images and point clouds.