The Home tab

The Home tab is where you find your way around the map and, while editing, set the map up.

Find a place

Use Find a place (Ctrl+F), or the search box in the header. It understands:

• place names and addresses
• UK postcodes
• OS grid references, for example TQ 318 804
• coordinates, for example 51.5, -0.12
• what3words addresses, for example ///filled.count.soap, where your organisation has what3words turned on

Results nearest the map come first, and your recent places are kept for next time. Choose Add a pin at… on a result to drop a pin there. While you’re editing, that pin is saved with the map. Otherwise it’s only on your screen.

Look around

• Zoom to everything fits the whole map on screen. The locate button finds where you are.
• Change base map picks the map underneath.
• About this map shows its description and credits.
• Go full screen and Overview map (a small map in the corner showing where you are).
• Appearance switches between light, dark and your device’s setting.

Note

Base map and overview map choices are saved with the map when you can edit the whole map and you’re in edit mode. Otherwise they last until you close the page.

Set the map up

These appear while you’re editing, for people who can edit the whole map.

• Edit map details: the map’s name and what it’s for.
• Set start view: where the map opens and how far in or out. Use current view takes the view on your screen. Keep viewers in this area stops people panning away.
• Load template: start from layers and styles made before, with or without their data.
• Map settings: the base map, the look of new shapes, what tapping a shape does, fields every pin gets, the slideshow, and which tools viewers see.
• Manage icon sets: see the sets of icons available for pins.

Slideshow

If the slideshow is turned on in Map settings, Play, Stop, Previous and Next step through the pins one at a time. It doesn’t run while you’re editing.