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Draw Toolbar Plugin

What is the Draw Toolbar Plugin?

The Draw Toolbar encourages users to interact directly with the map. Functionally, it gives the ability to create new geometries by drawing them on the map. The Drawing toolbar contains a collection of icon buttons that allows the user to draw shapes and images in the document (Figure 54).

Figure 54: Map Showing Indigenous Mining Agreements (Expired)

Feature Highlight

  • Some of the features that the Draw Toolbar provides:
  • Draw Points / Lines / Polygons
  • Edit / Erase created features
  • Save / Upload Drawing
  • Includes distance to features such as lines, perimeter and area of polygons.

Configuring the Draw Toolbar Plugin

Step 1. Enable Draw Toolbar

Navigate to the Plugins section in the FGP Authoring Tool. Under the Draw Toolbar tab, click on Enable (Figure 55).

Figure 55: Draw Toolbar - Enable

Step 2. Enable Tools

Enable / Disable specific tools. By default, all the tools are enabled. Please note that any of the tools can be disabled to fit unique or specific use cases.

Button Name Function
Color Picker Allows you to select different colors
New Marker Draws a marker point
New Line Draws a line and includes the distance of the line
New Polygon Draws a polygon and includes the area and perimeter of the shape
Edit Vertices Allows you to edit the vertices of the selected line, polygon, or curve
Show/Hide Distances Allows you to toggle the visibility of the distance text
Erase Erase selected features
Save Saves graphics to file
Upload Uploads saved graphic file to the map

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