# DeviceMapAccessController

Source: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/api/unity/NianticSpatial.NSDK.AR.Mapping.DeviceMapAccessController/

DeviceMapAccessController
Class to access primitive device map data and configs.

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## Declaration

public class DeviceMapAccessController

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## Methods

| Name | Type | Summary |
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| static Acquire | DeviceMapAccessController | Gets or creates the shared map access object. |
| AddMap | bool | Add serialized map data to the map storage. |
| ClearDeviceMaps | bool | Clear map storage. |
| CreateRootAnchor | bool | Creates an anchor on the existing map located at the origin of the current AR session, if possible. |
| ExtractMapMetadataFromAnchor | bool | Extract the metadata from a map relative to an anchor on the map. |
| GetMapData | bool | Get the current map data. |
| GetMapUpdate | bool | Get the latest map update data, which consists of the new nodes and edges that have been added since the last call to this function. |
| MergeMapUpdate | bool | Merge a map update into an existing map. |
| Release | void | - |

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