LEI Electronics 6 manual Creating Corridor Map Borders, Handle Box Mouse Pointer Map Border

Handle Box

Mouse Pointer

Map Border

Click and drag to draw a Map Border around Corpus Christi Bay area.

4.When the green border surrounds the desired area, release the mouse button.

5.To stop the command, click the CENTER MASTER MAP button.

If you are satisfied with this map and want to finish processing it for use in your GPS unit, skip forward to the lesson on "Saving a Map Border File" on page 39.

MapCreate can also draw a polygon-shaped border useful for following an irregularly shaped route, lake or other geographic feature. These corridor maps are also drawn with the Create Map Borders command, and we tell you how in the next lesson.

Tip:

If you need to start over, you can erase a map border box. Click the CREATE MAP BORDERS button, then move the pencil point over one of the small handle boxes that appear at each corner of the green box. Right-click on a handle box to erase the border. Or, you can click the NEW MAP BORDER FILE button to clear all map borders.

Creating Corridor Map Borders

A corridor map lets you twist and turn your borders to enclose irregularly shaped geographic features. Here's how: (Refer as needed to the Toolbar figure on page 30.)

1.Center the Master Map display on the area you want to include in your custom map. Click the CENTER MASTER MAP cross-hair

button, then click the cross-hair mouse pointer on the area you want centered.

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