Navigator

Apart from the map itself, the Navigator will be the interface element you use most. You can show and/or hide the widget using Ctrl+Space or View -> Toggle Navigator.

Introduction

Your Navigator is a directory-style representation of all your survey-related data within your project. After importing your survey, you will find your survey within the Navigator’s Imported data folder. Every time you drag a line from the Imported data folder to the map view, the line will automatically be moved from the Imported data folder to the Map data folder. After removing a line from the Map data folder or the map itself, it will show up in the Imported data folder. This means that all lines that are visible on your map are available within the Map data folder. All lines that were imported but not visible on the map are available from within the Imported data folder.

Available mouse actions

• Double-click any folder to see their contents.
• Right-click any folder to show the context menu displaying available options for that folder.
• Left-click + mouse move line folders within the Imported data folder to drag them into the Map window.
• Double-click station icons within the Map data folder to center them on your map.
• Double-click station icons within the Imported data folder to display the edit station dialog.
• Right-click station icons to show the context menu displaying all available options.

Imported data

This folder will hold all your imported surveys.

Drag your line into the map window

All line items found in the Navigator -> Imported data -> [your survey] folder are draggable. You can recognize these folders by the cursor changing to a “draggable cursor” when you hover them.

When you hover your line, click and hold your left mouse button and simply move your mouse towards the map window. You will see your line displayed on the map view, following your mouse cursor wherever you move it.

When your mouse hovers already existing stations on your map, it will compare its altitude with the line you are dragging. If both are within a reasonable margin of each other,* the existing station will light up, indicating that you can connect your line to the given station. When you drop your line on the map without an existing station lighting up, you will create a GPS-based line.

When you import your line, you have set the survey direction for that line.

• Direction IN will make you drag and drop the line using the FIRST station as the main reference.
• Direction OUT will use the LAST station as its main reference.

You can always change the direction for your line by hovering your line folder and right-click -> edit line.

*see file -> preferences, Map -> Station max altitude difference

Provide optional information

After dropping a line on the map, a dialog will show up.

Stations before line starts / Stations before line ends

Temporary lines will be displayed in a dotted grey line, making jumps or reelings instantly visible. The example below shows a line where “Stations before line starts” is set to 2.

Map data

This folder will hold all your items displayed on the map. As sometimes it is easier to find and/or access your items through the Navigator rather than directly on the map, StickMaps allows you to do so.

Editing stations

It is possible to edit position-related data for any Station that exists on the map by either right-clicking the Station on the Map for within the Navigator.

Center station on map

Double-click a station icon or right-click a station icon and select goto Station. Your station should now be centered on the map window.