MapWindow 4 Users Manual

This is a systematic presentation of the key functions and capabilities of MapWindow 4. Please feel free to edit the pages contained herein to include better, updated, and more complete documentation.

Documentation for specific functions of the current release of MapWindow 4.x main application.

• Purpose
• System Requirements
• Getting MapWindow
• Installing MapWindow
• Getting Data
• Main User Interface
• Opening and Saving Projects
• Adding Data to the Map
• Managing Projections
• Removing Data from the Map
• Working With the Legend
• Map Navigation Functions
• Measuring Functions
• Viewing Layer Properties
• Changing Symbology
• Labeling Features
• Managing Plug-ins
• Using the Attribute Table Editor
• Using the Feature Identifier
• Creating Print Layouts

This section provides documentation on the plugins that are provided with the MapWindow installer but which are optional to use at run time.

• Archive Project Tool
• Balloon Identifier
• Data Client
• Document Launcher
• GIS Tools
• Google Geocoder
• Image to Map
• Kriging
• Launch Other Mapping Software
• Measuring Tool
• Meems Tools
• Open Metadata Manager
• Photo Viewer
• Shapefile Editor
• Spatial Converter
• Tiled Map
• Watershed Delineation

Note that the documentation in this area is updated and maintained by the authors of the individual plugins. If you have a plugin you want to document, please do so here.

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