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DeLorme Topo North America™ 9.0 User Guide
Created June 8, 2010
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Table of Contents Getting Started ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 Map Legend ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Using the Toolbar ..........................................................................................................................
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Getting Started Welcome to DeLorme Topo North America Helpful Links • DeLorme—product information and more • Technical Support—searchable knowledge base, articles, troubleshooting • Community Forums—a wealth of information from the people who use our products • DeLorme Weblog—announcements, tips and tricks, and tutorials • PN-Series Wiki—all the information about PN-Series GPS devices you need in one place What's New • DeLorme Topo USA is now DeLorme Topo North America! • Canada to
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide • Print high quality, detailed, 2-D or 3-D single-page maps, and/or mural maps as large as 3 x 3 pages. You can even print routes, route directions, and profiles. • Create custom keyboard shortcuts or select a DeLorme shortcut scheme, such as 3-D Navigation, to navigate the program more easily than ever. • Connect your GPS device to the program and track your progress on a laptop as you travel. • And much more! Frequently Asked Questions These
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DeLorme Topo North America Help Search, Finding Points Near Your Current Location, Performing a POI Search, and Performing an Advanced Search. • How can I find all of the nearby points of interest? Right-click your location on the map, click Find Travel POIs, and then click the distance you want to search within (1 mile, 5 miles, or 10 miles). The points of interest display in Find tab results area. OR If you are tracking with a GPS device, do a radar search to locate points of interest
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide • What is a project? You can save all of your work as a single workspace so you can open it again later. These saved workspaces are called projects. A project is made up of the following items: coordinates of the map center, current zoom level, current magnification, map display preferences, any added items: such as draw layers, routes, and so on. As you create new routes or draw layers, change preferences or the map center, and so on, they are ad
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DeLorme Topo North America Help • If you search for an address that is on a walkway and place a route point on it, DeLorme Topo North America finds the closest street to that location, marks the space between the point the clicked and the street with X marks, and starts the route at the street. • Why is the tab area and control panel so narrow? DeLorme Topo North America was designed for resolutions of 800 x 600 or higher. If you are using a very high resolution (such as 1920x 1200), the
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide Basic Functions Running DeLorme Topo North America After you install the program, you can run it with the DVD to use the data without installing it to your computer's hard drive. For more information on installing data to your hard drive, see Saving Data to Your Hard Drive. To Access Data from the DVD Choose one of the following ways to access the data using the DVD. • If you installed a desktop shortcut, insert a DeLorme Topo North America DVD i
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DeLorme Topo North America Help the map view adjusts to show the appropriate level of detail. Tip To move the view box to another location, press the SHIFT key at any time. To Drag and Zoom Out Use the following steps to zoom in either the right or left map. 1. Click and hold down the left mouse button as you drag the mouse in an up-left direction on the map. A staircase with a small circle displays on the screen. 2. Continue dragging the mouse in an up-left direction. The small circle m
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide Panning/Centering the Map Use any of the following methods to pan (move) or center the map. • Click anywhere on the map. The point you click becomes the new map center. • When you point near the map edge, a white hand displays. Drag the hand to move the map in that direction. • With your cursor anywhere on the map, press the CTRL key on your keyboard—the cursor becomes a white hand. Hold down your left mouse button to drag the map to a new locati
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DeLorme Topo North America Help 3. Under Map, select Left, Right, or Both. 4. Under Print Layout, select Page (the map print area is based on the paper size specified in the Setup options) or Screen (the map print area is based on the screen size). The print area for a Page map displays as a red box and the print area for a Screen map displays as a blue box on the overview map. 5. If you selected Page in step 4, the following options are available. • Under Print Layout, select a layout o
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide Measuring Distance and Area Use the Measure tool on the toolbar to measure linear distance and area on the map based on the units chosen in the Display tab of the Options dialog box. The snap function snaps (attaches) the point of a measurement line to a point on a road or another measurement object. This ensures a more accurate measurement of distance or area. To measure area, you must completely enclose the area by snapping your finish point t
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DeLorme Topo North America Help Coordinate QuickSearch Advanced Search Format Latitude/Longitude N 43 48 30, W70 9 52 N 43 48 30 W70 9 52 N 43 48.4910, W 070 N 43 48.4910 W 070 09.8440 09.8440 N434829.4600, N434829.4600 W0700950.6400 W0700950.6400 N43-48-30, W70-9-52 N43-48-30 W70-9-52 N 43:48:29.46, W N 43:48:29.46 W 70:9:50.64 70:9:50.64 4348, -7009 4348 -7009 4348N, 7009W 4348N 7009W N4348, W7009 N4348 W7009 4348n, 7009w 4348n 7009w n4348, w7009 n4348 w7009 4348 N, 7009 W 434
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide (NAD27)* 19TDJ06355109 19TDJ064511 19TDJ0651 UTM/UPS 19T 0406311E 4850964N Zone 19T Easting 0406311E Northing 4850964N 19T 0406311 4850964 Zone 19T Easting 0406311 Northing 4850964 19T / 0406311 / 4850964 Zone 19T Easting 0406311 Northing 4850964 SPCS ME-W 0500490 0355150 Zone ME-W Easting 0500490 Northing 0355150 * Use this example for USNG with non-standard datum. Searching Tips When you use the Quick Search subtab on the Find tab
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DeLorme Topo North America Help Minor Point of Interest POI name, City, State Subway, Columbus, OH Major Point of Interest or POI/landmark name Mount Rushmore Landmark POI/landmark name, State Space Needle, WA Latitude/Longitude See Chart of Supported of Supported Coordinate Formats For more information about the Find tab, see the Help topics under Finding a Location on the Map. Exiting the Program To exit the program, click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide • Voice • GPS Control Panel The Control Panel, located to the right of the map view, displays information pertinent to the current map view and map cursor position. It also includes zoom and map pan buttons. You can customize your interface to show or hide the Control Panel. Data Zoom Level—The current data zoom level of the map view; ranges between 1-0 (maximum zoom out) and 17-0 (maximum zoom in). Zoom Tools—Buttons that quickly zoom out thre
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DeLorme Topo North America Help • Click anywhere on the overview map and that point becomes the new map center. This allows you to travel greater distances with each mouse click than you can within the larger, current map view. • Use the black view box in the overview map window to pan the map. Point anywhere on the view box. When the pointer becomes a , drag the view box to the new location. Toolbar • You can show or hide toolbar options. • You can change the order of the toolbar o
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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide Using the Help System Help Overview There are several ways to get more information about the program's features and functionality. Tips and Info There are three ways help is provided within the program. • Pop-up Tutorials When you perform some actions in the program, a pop-up Did you know . . .? tutorial opens. These provide additional information for using that particular function. If you do not want to see that specific pop-up tutorial a
