LEI Electronics 6 How to use this manual typographical conventions

Cursor over

POI symbol

Pop-up box

At left, an iFINDER GPS screen showing a POI pop-up name box. At right, you can call up a page of information on the POI, and the GPS unit can lead you to the POI's location.

Find an Address

You won't see addresses on your computer map, either. But when the MapCreate information is loaded into your GPS, you can search for a street address or a street intersection. In fact, your GPS unit can search by name for virtually every category of mapping detail contained in MapCreate.

All of this information is built into MapCreate's atlas database. As long as an information category is turned on and included in your Custom Map File, the data will be available to your GPS unit.

With these and other elements, MapCreate gives you a phenomenal amount of mapping detail and information. No other consumer GPS mapping product on the market offers this much information in one package. For a more detailed list of the map categories available in MapCreate, see Appendix 2, Map Category List, on page 55.

How to use this manual: typographical conventions

Most Windows-based computer programs offer several ways to perform a task, and MapCreate 6 is no exception. With mouse and keyboard, you can access some commands four different ways! We'll show you all of them, but we save the most detailed information for our online Command Reference section. There, the entry on each command includes a summary box showing all the menus and keyboard shortcuts (sometimes that's the only hint you need to get on with your mapping project.)

In our Quick Start Reference, we will usually focus on one simple way to get the job done, usually by clicking the mouse pointer on a menu or toolbar button. In Quick Start, many of the instructions are listed as numbered steps. This makes it a little easier to follow a series of instructions when you're skimming the material.

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