Nesting A Feature - Thales Mobile Mapper User Manual

6. Nesting a Feature

When you are logging GPS positions to a feature, you
may find another feature that you also want to log.
Rather than log the entire feature and come back to
record this other feature, you can simply pause the fea-
ture being logged, log the other feature, close it and
resume logging the first feature.
Logging one feature while you have paused another fea-
ture is called "nesting." You can nest any feature, point
line or area, into any line or area feature. Its does not
make sense to nest a feature into a point feature.
Nesting is particularly useful when you are mapping
things such as a road with streetlamps along the route or
a shoreline with stretches of erosion along it and the
locations of certain habitats.
Assuming you are logging a line feature and the Logging
screen is displayed, do the following, for example to nest
a point feature:
- Press MENU, highlight
ENTER. This pauses the logging of the line feature.
- Move to the location of the feature you want to nest
- In the Feature List screen now displayed, highlight
the feature you want to nest and press ENTER
- Describe the attributes of the feature as you would
normally do
- Highlight
ENTER. This closes the nested feature and takes you
back to the Logging screen of the paused feature
- Press MENU, highlight
press ENTER. This takes you back to the Logging
screen from which you can normally finish the log-
ging of this feature.
Nest Feature
at the bottom of the screen and press
Close
Resume <feature name>
and press
and
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