7.1 The Map form
- The Navigator displaying the whole plot is particularly useful on large plots. The rectangle marks the area currently zoomed in on the map.
- Geographic entities are displayed on the map.
- Scale bar changes according to the current scale of the map.
- Local or global co-ordinates. Polar co-ordinates can be viewed in case of a circular plot based on local co-ordinates.
- Each of the user defined map layers has its own tab. By clicking a particular tab you can switch to the form of layer attributes.
- Clicking the Background map button opens the Background map menu.
- Use the arrows to change the order of map layers - last layer in the list is at the top of map.
- A List of map layers is used for selecting appropriate layer.
- Zoom slider - click and drag the slider for convenient zooming of map extent. Upper limit is set to the extent of whole plot and lower limit more than 1:1 - you are still able to zoom more with other methods.

The Horizontal toolbar contains buttons for editing entities.
- Use GPS
- Use laser
- Add line
- Add point
- Add centroid
- Move point
- Cut line
- Delete line
- Delete point
- User click to map
- Select entity
- Positioning

The Vertical toolbar contains buttons used less often.
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Ordering of map layers corespondent to ordering of layers in Field-Map Project Manager. Ordering of map layers can be change directly in Field-Map Data Collector and become independent on data form ordering.
