Map Drawing Polygon

  1. From the Map window, left click on the Draw Polygons icon on the Drawing Tools toolbar. Your mouse pointer will now be displayed as a pencil within your map window.
  2. You will now have the ability to either "left click" on the map to select the first point on the map, or press <m> on your keyboard to open a window to enter a manual UTM X,Y coordinate pair. View image

  1. Each consecutive point (vertex) can be created by either left-clicking on the map or pressing <m> on your keyboard. To remove a vertex, press <Backspace> on your keyboard. This will remove the points beginning with the last point selected.
  2. To close the polygon, right-click and WinPICS will complete the polygon.
  3. Right-click to access the Map Drawing Menu where you can specify the Drawing Properties of the polygon, as well as save the polygon as a map layer ( Save Layer As).

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