Photo zones — tagging a photo with where it was taken
Tag a photo with the part of the boat it shows, so photos of the same area collect together.
A photo zone is a TAG, not a place you create. There are nine of them, fixed: bilge, engine room, helm, galley, master, crew, deck, flybridge and other. You pick one when you take a photo, and photos carrying the same tag collect together.
That is the whole feature today. You cannot name a zone of your own, there is no reference shot, and there is no screen that opens a zone.
Steps
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Tag a photo
Take the photo the way you normally would — most often while logging an observation. Once a photo is attached, a 'Photo zone' picker appears in the sheet's Photos (optional) section, and the zone you choose is written onto every photo on that observation. The picker is hidden when the observation is linked to a system whose category already implies a zone — those photos take the system's zone instead. Nothing asks you to tag a photo after capture, so a photo you attach to a document is not tagged.
There is no '+ Photo Zone' button anywhere; there is nothing to create.
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What builds up
Every photo you tag with the same zone joins that zone's strip. The strip shows the twelve most recent, newest first, with a quiet '+N more' when there are others — that tile does not open anything, and neither do the thumbnails. There is no way to open a photo from the strip and no side-by-side compare.
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Where to see them
Vessel Briefing carries a 'Photos by zone' section listing the zones that actually hold photos. That is the only vessel-wide view — there is no Photo Zones screen and no route to one, so nothing in this article can take you there.
Tap a zone there and you see only the photos tagged with it; All zones shows every photo, tagged or not. A unit's own page also shows its untagged photos.
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Use cases
Watch teak weather. Document a paint chip before it spreads. Show a vendor what the engine bay looked like a month ago. Document insurance damage. Show buyers the history at sale.
All of that works today as far as the photos go — they are tagged, kept and grouped. What is missing is the reading of them: the strip caps at twelve, nothing opens full-size from it, and nothing compares two side by side.