CHAPTER 02

The Home Screen

This chapter covers the buttons on the Home screen, which appears when you launch the app, and the basic map operations.

Buttons on the map

• Compass — Switches between heading-up, which puts your direction of travel at the top, and north-up. Long-press it to toggle a direction line running from your current location toward the bearing direction.
• Zoom — Changes the scale. The current zoom level is shown between the buttons.
• GPS — Toggles current-location display and follow mode. The color shows the state: off = blue / show only = pale red / following = red.
• Account — Located at the top right. Opens the login screen when you are logged out. Signed in with an organization account it opens a menu with “Projects”, “Settings” and “Logout”; connected to Google Drive it opens “Drive” and “Logout” (which disconnects Drive).

In addition, a scale bar is shown at the bottom left and the attribution of the displayed map at the bottom right.

Buttons at the bottom of the screen

• maps — Opens the Map selection screen.
• track — Starts/stops track log recording. Turns red while recording.
• layers — Opens the Layer list screen.
• draw — Chooses the editing tools for points / lines / polygons / memos. Selecting “draw” turns the tools off.
• settings — Opens the Settings screen.

Basic map operations

• Drag / pinch — Pans the map and zooms in and out.
• Tap a feature — Shows its attribute information in the sheet at the bottom of the screen. For entering and editing values, see Record Data. Tapping a feature on a vector tile map shows a list of its attributes in a popup instead.
• Long-press — Shows that point’s elevation, coordinates, and distance from your current location in a popup, even where there is no feature, and can open it in Google Maps. Tapping a POI (place or facility name) on a Google map does the same. Tapping the coordinates copies them. The popup can also create a viewshed, the area visible from that spot, or measure a distance.

Note: On first launch you will be asked to agree to the terms of use, and after an app update the release notes are shown.