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When you are done collecting coordinate points, click the Open Map icon (an open, yellow folder with an arrow), and tap Save Map. This will save your Shapefile layer and Base layer together as a map document that can be opened and added to later. You can export individual layers or the entire map document to any laptop by using the SDHC card (if that's where you've saved your layers and map) or ActiveSync. ArcMap - the GIS software used on the desktop computers - will not open an ArcPad map document, but it will import Layer files created in ArcPad.
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Open/Work with an Existing Map Document or Layer in ArcPad 8
- In the Open Map window of ArcPad, click on the open folder icon at the bottom of the screen.
- The Folder option should be set to All Folders
- Set the Type option to All Files (.). All of the files loaded onto the GPS unit, including those stored on the SDHC card should appear.
- Choose the file you want to use as your
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- Base layer, or the Shapefile or ArcPad map you want to work with.
- If you have not set a
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- Projection for the
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- Base layer or satellite photo, ArcPad will ask you if you want to assume the
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- Projection is GCS_WGS_1984.
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- Tap Yes. Depending upon the size of the map file, it may take a while to load.
- Continue adding data.