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Measure Distance on the Map

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<table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" style="float: right; clear: right; color: black; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 22em; margin: 0 0 1{{note|The Measure Distance functionality is available only if you are using a projected coordinate system.0em 1The functionality is disabled if the coordinate system you are using is unknown or geographic.0em; padding: 0See [[Change the Map Projection]] for more details.2em; border-spacing}} The [[Image: 0MeasureLnIcon.4em 0; text-align: center; line-height: 1png]] button allows you to measure lines, polylines, and polygons on the map.4em; font-sizeTo measure distances on the map: 88%; background-color: #f5faff; font-size: 90%; width: auto; line-height: 1.6em; width:150px;;;" class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks"<ol><th style="paddingli>Click the [[Image: 0MeasureLnIcon.2em 0png]] button to enable the measure distance control.4em 0The Measure window displays.2em; font-size [[Image: 145%; line-height: 1fig16.2em; font-weight: bold; background-color: #9aa8b5; font-size: 125%" classpng|center|''Measure Window'']]<div align="center">Related Topics''Measure Window''</thdiv><tr><td {| class="wikitable" width="600" style="padding-topmargin: 0.2emauto; font"|-weight: bold; background-color: #cee0f2| align="center" classcolspan="2">Daily Activities</td>| '''Measure Window Buttons'''</tr>|-<tr>| width="125pt" | '''Button'''<td style| width="padding475pt" | '''Description'''|-bottom: 0.2em; text-align: left">| [[IMSMA Navigation Window Image:MeasureLineBtn.png| IMSMA NavigationMeasure Line]]<br />|| Measures a line.|-| [[Theme Manager Window Image:MeasureAreaBtn.png| Theme ManagerMeasure and Area]]<br />|| Measures an area. '''This button is currently not functional.'''|-| [[Current View Windows Image:ReturnBtn.png| Current ViewMeasure a Feature]]<br />|| Returns the length, perimeter, area, or coordinates of a feature. '''This button is currently not functional.'''|-| [[Field Reports Image:CalculateBtn.png| Field ReportsShow Total (on/off)]]<br />|| Calculates the sum of consecutive measurements. |-| [[Geospatial Data Image:ChgUnitBtn.png| Geospatial DataChoose Units]]<br />|| Allows you to change the measurement units for distance or area. </td>|-</tr><tr><td style="padding-top| [[Image: 0ClrMeasureBtn.png]] || Clears the measurements.2em; font-weight: bold; background-color: #cee0f2" class="">How To Information</td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0.2em; text|-align: left">| [[HowToImage:Identify Objects on the MapChgUnitBtn.png|Identify ObjectsChoose Measurement Type]]|| Allows you to change the measurement type between Planar, Geodesic, Loxodrome, and Great Eliptic. |}<br /li><li>Click the [[HowToImage:Measure Distance on the Map|Measure DistanceMeasureLineBtn.png]]<br />button to measure a line. {{note|The [[HowToImage:Reposition the Map Image|Reposition Map ImageMeasureAreaBtn.png]]<br />and [[HowToImage:Lasso an Area on the Map|Lasso an AreaReturnBtn.png]]buttons are not functional. To measure the perimeter of a polygon, measure each line of the polygon to get the approximate perimeter.}} <br /li>[[HowTo:Zoom in on and Recentre <li>Click the points of the line or polygon that you would like to measure. To indicate the Map<!-last point, double- Is this click the actual title last point of the article? -->|Zoom line or polygon. The measurement displays in/Recentre]]the Measure window. <br /li></tdol></tr></table>{{NavBox HowTo Viewing and Browsing}} [[Category:CRI]]
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