Rulers

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Rulers

Rulers

You can use rulers to measure distances and areas on a map.

DISTANCE RULER

AREA RULER

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Measure Distances

Click the mapruller button to create a ruler. This ruler calculates the distance between two or more points on a map. The total distance is shown in a map callout. Note that measurements ignore changes in elevation.

 

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Click an intermediate point on the ruler to see the distance to this point.

 

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Measure Areas

Click mapmeasureruler button to create an area ruler. This ruler calculates the area inside a polygon. The result is shown in a map callout.

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Configure Rulers

After you add a ruler to a map, you can perform the following actions:

Add a ruler point. Click the position on the ruler where you want to add a point.

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Change the ruler polyline. Click and drag the point to a new location.

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Delete a ruler point. Double-click the ruler point. You can delete a point when the ruler contains more than two points. You can remove the entire ruler if it contains only two points.

 

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Remove Rulers

You can click the cross button on the map callout that displays the measurement results to remove a ruler.

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