How to center map..

I am doing pretty well in learning BC. However I would like to know how to center a place on the map in the screen. If I use the Zoom tool it just zooms in on the place the tool is located.

I have zoomed in on an area near the edge of the screen and as I zoom in the area expands off the screen. MS has a feature where you can place a cross hairs and when you zoom in it stays on the cross hair.

If the zoom tool would center your point in the screen you don't have to change tools to pan over as you zoom in closer to your target.

Any help? BTW the Ctl-T is not any help as I can see.

Thanks
BC

0 seilogramp over 13 years ago

Select the item in the data view section, then press Ctrl + D. Alternatively, you can right click on the item, then select "Show on Map."

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

You can click and drag using the zoom tool to select the area you want, I suspect you're simply clicking ;)

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

How to center map..

SUSSAMB,

I too struggle with trying to keep the object I want to zoom in on...on the screen.

If I use the zoom tool, and drag select the area I want, I can't zoom in anywhere near as much as I can just clicking.

Any info on limitations of the zoom tool?

Thanks,

Rooster

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

What you can do is show the object in the middle of the map (right-click and "Show on Map"), then put focus on the map (e.g. by using the hand tool and clicking once on the map) and then use the + and - keys.

The selection will stay in the center of the screen, it won't matter where you hold the mouse.

Does that help any?

0 Hypnoman_ over 12 years ago

Can we not have the option of the cross hairs that Mapsource has? It is great when switching to Google Earth as you can them ensure the area of interest is displayed in the screen centre.

0 C14_Rider over 12 years ago

I always found the MS crosshairs less useful since it only zoomed one level, which was almost always not enough, so then I had to do additional zooming to see what I wanted. For that reason, I used the "drag a rectangle" technique since that both centered the area of interest and zoomed however far I wanted depending on the size of the rectangle, in one step.

BC does this rectangle zoom exactly the same as MS as previously mentioned, zooming and centering simultaneously. Does everything I need, zoom-wise. Other techniques are completely valid as well however. Having the MS-style cross-hairs wouldn't hurt a thing.