4.2.2   Advanced operations on Waypoints

Advanced operations that can be perfomed on waypoints:

•    Edit the properties of a waypoint

1.   Open the contextual menu of the element that you want to edit.

2.   Once opened, select ‘Properties’ and modify the properties.

3.   If you want to keep these modification, save the changes.

•    Edit the properties for all waypoints contained in a waypoints file:

1.   Open the contextual menu on the waypoints file you want to edit.

2.   Once open, select 'Properties'.

3.   In the properties window select 'Modify all waypoints'.

4.   Choose which properties you want to modify. These will apply to all waypoints contained in that waypoints file.

•    Measure the distance between two or more waypoints:

1.   At the toolbar, click 'Distance measurement'.

2.   Mark the starting point on the map. If no ending point is defined, Land will measure the distance between the starting point and the current position of the mouse.

3.   Next, mark another point on the map and so on. Land will update the total distance as you mark more points.

•    Move the location of a waypoint:  

1.   Locate the waypoint you want to move at the data tree.

2.   Drag and drop the waypoint from the data tree to the exact location on the map window where you want to place it.

•    Delete a waypoint:  

1.   At map window, open the contextual menu at the waypoint you want to delete.

2.   Select ‘Delete waypoint’.

•    Add associate files to waypoints:  Waypoints can have associates files such as images, sounds, texts... when simulating your itineraries, associated files will pop up on the screen as references. Check the associated files of your waypoints from the data tree.

1.   Open the properties of a waypoint.

2.   Select the category ‘Associated’ and link the file that you want to associate.

3.   Rich-formatted *.HTML texts can also be associated and displayed on-screen using certain HTML tags (font size, font colour, title levels, text in blod, text in italics, text underlined, background colour, text alignment, attached images…).

•    Move a single waypoint to another existing file:

1.   From the data tree, drag and drop the waypoint to the file where you want to assign it (another waypoints files, routes or tracks).

2.   By doing this the waypoint will be removed from the original file and assigned to the new file.

•    Delete  the list of waypoints in a waypoints file: By pressing ‘Reset’ at any Active Waypoints File (AWF), you will delete all the waypoints of that specific active file.

1.   Open the contextual menu on the waypoints file you want to edit.

2.   Once open, select 'File > Reset'.