Delorme 6 Manuel D’Utilisation

XMap User Guide 

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Draw objects are those objects you add to a draw file with the tools provided in the 
Draw tab. Draw objects consist of line, area, or point objects. You can copy, move, 

delete, and add draw objects to other draw files and add them to another project.  

•  Line objects are those objects consisting of line segments and points, such 

as: 

•  Routable Roads 
•  Routable Trails 
•  Tracks 
•  Lines 
•  Arcs 
•  Splines 

•  Area objects are those objects consisting of one or more closed line objects, 

such as: 

•  Polygons 
•  Rectangles 
•  Circles 

•  Point objects consist of one anchor point attached to either a waypoint, 

symbol, MapNote, image, or text label. The anchor point is the pixel position 

on the symbol that corresponds to the geographic coordinate of the point 
selected on the map when the symbol is placed. 

Draw objects added to a draw file contain points that give the object its shape or 
allow you to snap one object to another object. Points display and act in different 

ways within the various draw objects. 

•  Points in Routable Roads, Routable Trails, Tracks, Lines, Splines, and 

Polygons 
Draw objects such as routable roads, routable trails, tracks, lines, splines, and 
polygons consist of shape points and end points.  

•  Shape points are the points you place on the map when creating the 

object. They give the object its shape. When you select a draw object 

on the map, shape points display along the active object as small 
magenta squares. 

 

 
The line object below was drawn with the spline tool.

 

 

 

  

•  End points are the first and last points of individual line segments on a 

draw object. When you select a shape point of a line segment within 

an active line, spline, or polygon: