Overview of SuperGIS Desktop

Basic Functions

Main Menu: Includes "File", "Edit", "View", "Selection", "Tools", "Window" and "Help." Most of the functions can be found on main menu.

File: saves the file and opens, prints, exports map and closes SuperGIS, etc.

Edit: includes the editing, finding of features and bookmaking settings.

View: includes the switch between map view and layout view and the SuperGIS interface settings.

Selection: sets the selection tools and selection mode.

Tools: uses the SuperGIS analysis tools including charts, add XY data, grid maker, geoprocessing and buffer analysis.

Window: includes overview, magnifier and viewer.

Help: it is about the online manual and version information.

Map Window: it is the area used to edit or cope with the map and layers.

The Screen and Map Coordinates Data: it shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer's location and the map's longitude and latitude.

Goto Button: Next to The Screen and Map Coordinates is "Goto" button . You can double-click the "Goto" button to open "Goto" dialog box and type the map coordinates to center the specific location.

Quick Menu: in SuperGIS right-clicking mouse on "Commonly Used Menu", "Map Window" or "The Table of Contents" will open the relative quick menu.

Table of Contents: lists all of the layers displayed on the map window.