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- Tap the Browse toolbar. Its icon looks like the Earth with a hand hovering over it.
- To Zoom In, tap the Zoom In icon, which looks like a magnifying glass with a plus sign in it. Tap on the corner of the area you want to Zoom In on, and drag the stylus to create a square around the desired area. If you made a mistake in Zooming In, you can use the Go Back to Previous Extent function (the blue arrow) to undo your zoom.
- To Pan through a map, click on the hand icon above the Browse menu in the upper, right hand corner of your map layer. Tap and drag the map layer to move around. You will have to tap the Pan icon each time you lift the stylus off of the display area.
- Zoom to Full Extent (the Earth - no hand) - this function takes you out to the full view of the map, completely unZoomed.
Add Longitude and Latitude Points to the Shapefile layer
- Tap on the Edit toolbar. This looks like a pencil with a bunch of points connected by lines.
- Tap the Draw tool Icon (pencil) to highlight it.
- Tap the Point feature icon to highlight it. Make sure that the chosen type is Point if you are collecting GPS latitude/longitude coordinates. Both the Draw tool and the Point feature must be highlighted to record lat/long coordinates.
- Find your Current Location on the map layer. It will be marked by a red circle with a dot in the middle. If you are not standing in the location of the latitude/longitude coordinates you want to record, move to that location.
- Tap in the center of the Current Location indicator. The Data window will open, with empty fields for all of your Data Attributes. Fill in as many of these as you need to capture the data for your coordinates.
- When finished recording Attribute data for the latitude/longitude coordinates, tap OK in the bottom, left hand corner. Your GPS latitude/longitude point will now appear in your Shapefile layer.
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