Advanced mission planning to recapture manually collected photos

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Feature Request:
I have been told that every photo taken by the drone has the following metadata embedded( drone position, compass direction, and gimbal angle ). I would like the ability to upload a set of photos that I manually collected( the best position and angles) to DD and automatically have a special photos mission plan that would have the drone automatically retake every photo based on the position, heading, gimbal angle of the manual photo.

More detail:
This plan would be different than the current photos plan which is very cursory ( currently with photos plan every photo is pointed at a POI at center ). I want every photo in the plan instead to have its own Heading, and Gimbal angle one per photo uploaded(I know this is what happens under the covers with the DD photos plan anyway, but the way these are calculated are done by the POI calculation instead of just taking the raw data). DroneDeploy can still automatically chain them efficiently, or give us a list and let us drag them into an order that makes sense.

Reason for request:
I sometimes get request to take pictures of a site as time passes and the client would like pictures from the same spot. Photo plans are good, but usually do not frame the photos as well as manual can achieve. Since these are taken above the treeline automation does not introduce any risk for me.

Business case:
I am sure you have many other customers who would LOVE this feature. Photos plans are great to easily set up and get a decent result, but will never be close to as good as perfectly framed manual photos. The photos plans can be further tweaked but the process is super slow compared to just taking the photos and having a perfect repeat these photos again plan generated.

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I noticed that DJI Pilot 2 has a pretty gnarly feature that can do something similar to this on the Mavic 3E. But it is a live mission recording setting. It records every picture taken with location, heading, and gimbal angle, but the downside is you need to do this before the mission, and cannot cherry-pick and rearrange the order of way-points easily. Every photo gets a waypoint and payload meaning you need to be really careful to not spam photos and get every photo right on first try. Dronedeploy being able to create the same kind of mission from cherry picked photos with custom order would create a new gold standard of mission planning. Also this likely would be incredibly easy for drone-deploy to program since they already did all the hard work on the back-end, its literally just grabbing a cluster of data points already existing from photos.

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Multiple POI’s has been a request for a LONG time.