The Map unit co-ordinates of the location of the mouse cursor are constantly updated and
displayed in the rightmost part of the Tool Bar. For unprojected views the map unit co-ordinates and the source data
co-ordinates are identical. However, for projected views the tool bar displays the
cursor co-ordinates in projected map units, while the source data are stored in
decimal degrees. In many cases it is interesting to see the decimal degree
co-ordinates of a point in the view. For this purpose we have added a YX-tool in the
Tool Bar of the View. When this tool is active, the location of the cursor when
a mouse button is clicked is displayed in source data co-ordinates in the
leftmost part of the Statusbar. For projected views this means that the co-ordinates
of the point are displayed as decimal degrees and in Degrees, Minutes and
Seconds. For unprojected views, the advantage of this tool is that the co-ordinates
of the point are only updated when a mouse button is clicked and remains
unchanged in the Statusbar until a mouse button is clicked again, or another message
appears in the Statusbar.
The tool is activated like any other tool; by clicking the tool button.
Activating another tool deactivates it.
Get the source data location of a point in a view