About Data Usage Calculation

Your data usage is measured in bytes of Nearmap proprietary aerial imagery viewed.

These activities do consume data:

• Viewing a site, zooming in, panning around
• Selecting a date to view from the date dropdown box 
• Consuming Nearmap imagery via an integration such as WMS, ArcGIS Online, TMS, APIs and KML (Google Super-overlay)
• Solar reports (typically less than 1MB per report)

These activities don't consume data:

• Panning over the world map at low resolution
• Zooming and panning over an area that is not covered by Nearmap aerial imagery
• Viewing Roadmaps
• Viewing StreetView

How Much Data Will I Consume?

A typical virtual site visit consumes about three megabytes of data on a high resolution monitor.

Screen Resolution and Data Consumption

The larger your monitor, the more data you use at each step. With a screen resolution of 1024x768 you'll typically consume less than a megabyte per virtual site visit. On a larger HD screen (1920x1080 pixels) you’ll typically consume three megabytes per site visit.

You can reduce your data usage on a large screen by not running your web browser at full screen size.

This image illustrates the impact of window size on the amount of image data downloaded.