Working with geographic locations

Adding a geographic location to a drawing allows you to draw entities that correspond to specific locations on a map, which can be especially helpful when working with drawings that contain survey, civil, and architectural data.

A geographic location is commonly specified using latitude and longitude values with a coordinate system, but the location can also be specified using a Keyhole Markup Language map file (.kml or .kmz).

Once a geographic location is specified, an online map displays in the background of the drawing along with a red geographic marker, which progeCAD uses to compute all relative geographic coordinates in the drawing. This allows you to draw entities at specific geographic coordinates on top of the map. You can also create position markers, which indicate and annotate any geographic location on the online map, and capture raster images of different map areas to use while working offline with your drawing.

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Adding a geographic location

Changing how a geographic location map displays

Removing a geographic location

Adding markers and annotations to a geographic location map

Working offline with images of geographic map areas

1. Adding a geographic location
2. Changing how a geographic location map displays
3. Removing a geographic location
4. Adding markers and annotations to a geographic location map
5. Working offline with images of geographic map areas