Latitude and Longitude

[Chip Beaulieu]

Can EazyDraw use latitude and longitude coordinates from a survey to draw shapes?

[Dave Mattson]

Yes. These would be the typical steps: Open the Survey with EazyDraw; this starts a new drawing. Open Layers (top of Format main menu). Add a layer; this will be the layer for adding mark-up, and we want to see the survey, but we don't want it interfering; thus, set Enabled Actions to show others (on Layers inspector). Draw a line between two points of known separation. Open Scale palette (also on Format main menu), choose "From Known Length" (with the line selected) - a dialog opens - enter the known length. Now the drawing is calibrated, and you can forget about scales and multipliers. Length, perimeter, area automatic calculations are all calibrated). Note: If you see an extensive dialog with two choices - you will want "change scale only" for this project. The "length" and "units" you enter can be anything of your choosing - latitude and longitude degrees if you wish -- and you can change scale and thus read-out any time, to go to Feet, or Miles, ... (choose that "change scale only" option). The scale palette also has a setting for the origin.