5.2. Using Bookmarks

Although GPS is great for figuring out where you are, sometimes you would like to remember where you were. For example, after a long day of field work you may want to go back and look at the area in which you were working. The GPS isn't of much value there, unless you are staying in the area.

For times when you want to be able to remember previous locations, CartoMobile has Bookmarks. Bookmarks hold the location (latitude, longitude, and optionally the zoom level) of locations recorded earlier.

Adding a Bookmark

  1. Center the map where you would like it to be when you recall the bookmark

  2. Tap the Bookmark button

    The Bookmarks panel will come up, showing all existing bookmarks

  3. Tap the Save Current Location button

    The new bookmarks panel will slide in, providing space to set the parameters of the bookmark

  4. Enter a name into the Name field and toggle the Scale switch to On if you want to return to the same magnification level when you use the bookmark

  5. Tap the Save button in the upper right to save the bookmark

    Tap the Cancel button in the upper left to abort

Using a Bookmark

  1. Tap the Bookmark button

    The Bookmarks panel will come up, showing all existing bookmarks

  2. Tap the bookmark you want to use

    The Bookmarks panel will disappear and the display will center on the bookmark

Removing a Bookmark

  1. Tap the Bookmark button

    The Bookmarks panel will come up, showing all existing bookmarks

  2. Tap the Edit button in the upper right

    The – button will be displayed to the left of each bookmark

  3. Tap the – button next to the book mark you wan to delete

    The – button will rotate and the Delete button will activate

  4. Tap the Delete button to delete the bookmark

Changing a Bookmark

  1. Tap the Bookmark button

    The Bookmarks panel will come up, showing all existing bookmarks

  2. Tap the blue disclosure button next to the name of the bookmark you want to edit

    The bookmark panel will slide in, showing all of the current data

  3. Make changes to the data that as desired and tap the Save button in the upper right corner

    The Bookmarks panel will slide back in

5.2.1. Automatic zooming to map areas

In CartoMobile 2.0, Feature and World extent automatic bookmarks have been added for easily zooming out to these areas on the map. Feature Extent places all visible features on the screen. Note that if you have a large area and/or a lot of features, you may get a heat map instead of the individual feature. World Extent zooms to the area of the entire map. For our standard base map, this will be the whole world; if you have a custom raster map, you will see only the area covered by your base map.