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How do I zoom
to a location based on latitude/longitude coordinates from
my GPS unit?
Click on the ‘Locators’ button located on the ‘Select
Area’ toolbar. A menu of locator tools will display
in another pop-up window. Select ‘Latitude-Longitude
Locator’ from the pop-up menu and another window will
open, which displays the current Latitude and Longitude coordinate
location of the cursor. TIP: The current Lat/Long pair displayed
is the center point of your current map view.

Enter
in the ‘New
Longitude’ and ‘New
Latitude’ coordinates that are displayed on your
GPS unit into the blank fields in the pop-up menu and then
press
the ‘Apply’ button. TIP: You
must specify a negative (-) value for your ‘New Longitude’ coordinate
(see below). Most recreational GPS units support the display
of Latitude and Longitude coordinates in ‘Degrees,
Decimal Minutes’, as the default format. The input
format can be changed to decimal degrees by using the Lat/Long
Coordinate Toggle in the menu dropdown list.

After
you click on the ‘Apply’ button, the application
automatically centers the map view on the new Latitude and
Longitude that you entered and places a large ‘red
dot’ on the actual coordinate position.

Select the ‘Clear
Selection’ from the ‘Tools’ menu
or click the ‘Eraser’ icon on the ‘Mapping
Tools’ toolbar to clear the Latitude/Longitude marker.
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