5.3. Getting Directions

Although CartoMobile does not, itself, provide driving or walking directions or any kind of routing, it does know how to call other programs to provide directions to points that it knows about.

Getting Directions with a Street Address field

  1. Select the feature by tapping on it to bring up the label

  2. Tap the blue disclosure button to bring up the display form

  3. Tap and hold on the address field

    After a couple of seconds, a menu will pop up

  4. Select More… from the pop-up menu

  5. Select Directions in Maps to start the Maps App with this address as the destination

Getting Directions with a GPS Field

Although you may not always have a street address, Cartographica provides another way to get directions to a location in its system, as long as it has a displayed GPS field.

  1. Select the feature by tapping on it to bring up the label

  2. Tap the blue disclosure button to bring up the display form

  3. Tap and hold on the GPS field

    After a couple of seconds, a menu will pop up

  4. Select More… from the pop-up menu

  5. Select Directions in Maps to start the Maps App with the latitude and longitude of this feature as the destination

Similar processes can be followed with the Open in Maps button to start the Maps App with the feature as the center point.