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Navigating in Digimap for Schools
How to guides
- Key areas of Digimap for Schools
- About the maps
- Navigating in Digimap for Schools
- Search
- Map selector
- View map keys
- Capture geographic coordinates
- Overlays
- View the compass
- Measure distance and areas
- Add text
- Add markers
- Add lines
- Add photos
- Add shapes
- Add buffers
- Add your own data
- Delete drawings
- Modify drawings
- Save maps
- Print maps
- Map information
- View Geograph images
- Edit your preferences
Navigating in Digimap for Schools
Zoom to your location
On opening Digimap for Schools, your map window will be centred on Great Britain.
To zoom in on a location:
- Double click on the map window
- Double tap on the map window
- Select the plus sign on the scale bar
- Select any point on the scale bar to zoom to that scale
- Select the drag zoom tool (above the scale bar), then drag a box on the map window to zoom to that area
- Move the mouse scroll wheel towards the screen, i.e. away from you
To zoom out:
- Select the minus sign on the scale bar
- Select any point on the scale bar to zoom to that scale
- Move the mouse scroll wheel away from the screen, i.e. towards you
To move around
- Click on the map window and drag, i.e. click and hold the left mouse button, then drag to move the map.
- Tap on the map and hold, then drag to move the map.