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Use the MAP commands when working with maps. It is always available, unless it is minimized. The MAP tab is also available at the top of floating Map and Layout windows.

Content Group

These commands modify the contents of the active map.

Icon Command Keyboard Shortcut Description
Map F3 Displays a table as a map.
Open Ctrl+Shift+O Opens a variety of resources for including in your layout, see File Group.
Add Theme F9 Creates a theme that graphically displays information about the map's underlying data.
Add to Map   Legend (Shift+F3): Adds a legend to the layout.

Gridlines: Creates a new grid layer on the active Map window, see Adding Grid Lines to a Map and Changing Grid Line Properties.

Scalebar: Adds a scale bar to the map.
Cosmetic   Clear Cosmetic Layer: Clears all objects from the cosmetic layer. Enables when there are cosmetic objects on the active map.

Save Cosmetic Objects: Save objects in the cosmetic layer to a table. Enables when there are cosmetic objects on the active map.

Selection Group

These commands provide methods for selecting objects.

Icon Command Keyboard Shortcut Description
Select  

Select: Selects one or more map/layout objects or browser rows.

Radius Selection: Selects map objects within a circle.

Marquee Selection: Selects map objects within a rectangle.

Polygon Selection: Selects map objects within a polygon.

Boundary Selection: Selects map objects within an area defined by a boundary in another layer (for example, cities within a county).

Select by Style: Select objects by style. (MapCAD)
SQL Select   Creates a selection by querying using SQL.
Invert   Inverts currently selected map/layout objects or browser rows. Available when objects or rows are selected.
Clear Ctrl+W Deselects map/layout objects or browser rows
Find  

Find (Ctrl+Shift+F): Select an item or row and find the item in all windows.

Find Address: Find an address using a geocoding server. Places a marker on the map.

Mark (Ctrl+F): Find objects by some criteria and place a marker on the map.

MapCAD is a tool that plugs in to MapInfo Pro on startup. Some commands on the SPATIAL ribbon are from MapCAD. To read more about how to use MapCAD commands, see the MapCAD Help: On the PROtab, select Add Ins, and then under the section titled MapCAD, click Help.

Create Group

These commands create objects on the map.

Insert

Icon Command Description
Point Inserts a marker or pin on to the map.
Text Inserts text on the map.
Line Creates a straight line on the map.
Polyline Creates a polyline on the map.
Arc Creates an arc on the map.
Polygon Creates a region (polygon) shape on the map.
Ellipse Creates an ellipse (circle) on the map.
Rectangle Creates a rectangle shape on the map.
Rounded Rectangle Creates a rectangle shape that has rounded corners on the map.

Style

Icon Command Keyboard Shortcut Description
Point Style Alt+F8 Modifies symbol size, color and type.
Line Style Shift+F8 Modifies line color, pattern and width.
Region Style Ctrl+F8 Modifies the color, pattern and outline of closed objects.
Text Style F8 Modifies text color, font and size.

Navigate Group

These commands change the map display.

Icon Command Keyboard Shortcut Description
Pan   Recenter the map by grabbing and moving in a direction.
Zoom In   Zooms in on map at cursor location.
Zoom Out   Zooms out on map at cursor location.
Previous View Alt+Left Return to a map's last view.
Move To   Allows you to type an address or place to recenter the map.
Zoom To  

Entire Selection Layer: Views the entire extents of the layer that has the current selection.

Extents of Selected Objects: Zooms to the extents of the selected objects on the map.

Entire Layer: Zooms to display an individual or all map layers.

Entire Map: Zooms to display the extents of the map.

Nearest Tile Server Level: Changes the zoom to the nearest tile server level.

Label Group

These commands manage the map labels.

Icon Command Description
Label Tool Adds a custom label to the map at the cursor location.
  Text Objects Text from Table: Create text objects from a table. (MapCAD)

Update Column with Text Object: Write the content of text objects that are placed within polygons/regions or on top of lines/polylines into a column of the table. (MapCAD)
Selectable Controls whether labels can be selected or not.
Clear Custom Discards all custom labels and revert to defaults
Priority Change the priority of labels from different layers. Two or more layers which can be labelled must be open to activate it.

MapCAD is a tool that plugs in to MapInfo Pro on startup. Some commands on the SPATIAL ribbon are from MapCAD. To read more about how to use MapCAD commands, see the MapCAD Help: On the PROtab, select Add Ins, and then under the section titled MapCAD, click Help.

Options Group

These commands provide additional choices for displaying the map.

Icon Command Keyboard Shortcut Description
Map Tools   Ruler: Opens the Ruler window.

Info: Displays tabular information about map objects.

Statistics (Ctrl+Shift+Z): Displays or hides the Statistics window.

Hotlink: Launch a file or URL associated with a Browser field or labels/objects in a map.

Explorer (Ctrl+Shift+E): Opens the workspace Explorer window. All open resources are displayed: maps, layers, windows, browsers, layouts, legends, tools, connections.

Redraw (Ctrl+Shift+D): A toggle to suspend/enable map drawing.
Redistricter   New Redistricter Window:(Shift+F4) Allows you to display and manipulate a table in a district browser.

Set Target: Sets the selected object's district as the target district.

Assign District: Permanently assigns selected objects to the target district.

Add District: Adds a new district to the Districts Browser.

Delete District: Deletes the current target district from the Districts Browser.

Options: Sets the district order and grid pattern display.
Map Options   Changes the settings for the map.
Hotlink Options   Specifies the Hotlink options.
Drag Map   Drag the map to another Map or Layout window.
Lock Scale   Locks the scale, so that only zoom and center changes are allowed. When on, resizing the Map Window does not change the scale of the content. When off, resizing the Map Window resizes the map content, so that everything remains in view.