Subject: Working with geographic locations

Adding a geographic location to a drawing allows you to draw entities that corre­spond to specific locations on a map, which can be especially helpful when working with drawings that contain survey, civil, and architectural data.

A geographic location is commonly specified by entering latitude, longitude, and ele­vation values with a coordinate system, but the location can also be specified using your current location or a Keyhole Markup Language map file (.kml or .kmz). Note that an Internet connection is required.

Once a geographic location is specified, an online map displays in the background of the drawing along with a red geographic location marker, which CADdirect uses to compute all relative geographic coordinates in the drawing. It is common to zoom and pan the map next, so you can view a specific area of the map. You may want to create position markers, which indicate and annotate geographic locations on the online map. Or you may want to capture an area as a map image, which creates a static image in the drawing. Then you can turn off the online map, and draw entities at specific geographic coordinates on top of the map image, updating the map image as needed and changing between hybrid, road, and satellite map types.

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Adding a geographic location

Changing how a geographic location map displays

Removing a geographic location

Adding markers and annotations to a geographic location map

Working offline with images of geographic map areas

Turning the map service on and off