Zoom to Coordinates or Scale
This navigation tool is used to quickly adjust the map display according to either the coordinates or map scale specified by the user.
Steps:
- Within the Map, click the Zoom To Coordinates or Scale
icon located in the upper right corner of the map title bar.
- The Zoom To Coordinates or Scale dialog opens, displaying the current map scale and coordinates, as indicated on the map by a red diamond.
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- Select the desired Scale.
- To zoom to a different location, select the Projection and enter the desired Latitude (Northing) and Longitude (Easting). Alternatively, with the Click for the Map for Coordinates
checkbox indicated, click anywhere on the map to view the coordinates of that location, in the selected Projection. Coordinates can be entered in the following projections in the formats shown:
- Latitude/Longitude (DMS)
- Latitude (Northing): 42d 42' 44"
- Longitude (Easting): -75d 38' 38"
- Latitude/Longitude (Decimal)
- Latitude (Northing): 42.712326430204115
- Longitude (Easting): -75.64402639639827
- UTM Zone 17 or UTM Zone 18
- Latitude (Northing): 4254911.012366921
- Longitude (Easting): -2346228.775082956
- Define Projection
- NOTE: WKID and WKT values can be found here.
- By Well Known ID (WKID):3857
- Latitude (Northing): 5268287
- Longitude (Easting): -8420654.5
- By Well Known Text (WKT):
- The WKT can be copied directly from a projection file (.prj). Below is an example.
- PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",0.0],PARAMETER["Auxiliary_Sphere_Type",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0],AUTHORITY["ESRI","102100"]]
- Latitude (Northing): 5268287
- Longitude (Easting): -8420654.5
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- Click Zoom. A red diamond indicates the location on the map. This is removed when the dialog is closed.
- If only a new map scale is selected, the map viewer will automatically zoom in or out to the selected scale, while remaining in the same location.
- If only coordinates are edited (regardless of a change in projection), the map viewer will zoom to the location defined by the coordinates but remain at the same scale.
- If both map scale and coordinates were changed, the map viewer adjusts location and scale accordingly.