Description of the tool
This tool allows you to click on your map to get details about a feature from the Active Layer.
How to use the tool
Prerequisite:
None
Steps:
- Click on the Identify tool.
- In the Map Window, click the feature of interest with the left mouse button. This will open the Identify window, which will show details of the feature that you clicked on.
- To Identify more than one feature at once, hold the left mouse button down in the Map Window and drag a circle to define a search area. The circular search area will be displayed interactively as you drag the mouse. Once you have defined your area of interest, release the mouse button and the Identify window will open with details of all the features that were found in the circular search area.
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The Identify window lists all the map features from the Active Layer that have been found in the search area. The number of features found is reported at the top of the Identify window. - Optionally, a copy of these details may be obtained by using the Export button. This option lets you export the data shown in the Identify window to either CSV or Excel format. The exported file is available for opening once you select the export file type.
- Clicking on a row in the Identify Window will cause the corresponding feature to be highlighted in the Map Window. The following Identify window buttons will then be enabled : Pan, Zoom, Remove and Refine.
- Pan - Changes the map display to have the selected feature from the Data Grid at the centre of the Map Window (this does not change the scale of the map).
- Zoom - Zooms in or out so that the whole of the selected feature from the Data Grid is displayed in the Map Window (the scale of the map will change to accommodate the size of the highlighted feature).
- Remove - The selected feature is removed from the listing in the Data Grid.
- Refine - All but the selected features will be removed from the listing in the Data Grid.
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