Maptitude Help / Moving Around a Map

Moving Around a Map

Unlike a paper map, a Maptitude map lets you change the area that is displayed and switch from one location to another with the click of a mouse. This is one of the major advantages of computerized maps – you can use them to display a neighborhood, a sales territory, a congressional district, or any other location, large or small, that you want to see.

Maptitude includes many tools and commands for changing the map scale and location:

You can use the Zoom and Pan tools or an overview window to interactively move around a map
You can also use the Edit>Find command to find locations based on the region and world geographic files that come standard with Maptitude, based on your own data that you have located on a map, based on a value for an attribute, or just find a particular coordinate.
You can find features from a dataview.
You can set the scale to a specific value or ratio.
If your workspace has more than one map in it, you can synchronize the scale of the maps
You can also save locations that you use frequently to a bookmark.
You can undo any of your scale changes one at a time or return to the initial scale of the map in your workspace

There are also options for Showing a Subset of Map Features if you want to only display the features in a specific area.

For a video tutorial see: (Internet connection required)

• Moving Around a Maptitude Map: Using the Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Pan tools, finding particular locations on a map, and specifying a map scale