Last week, we added some great new marker Annotation Tools to Digimap for Schools. Take a look at the marker drop down menu and you’ll find a new row of markers.
New marker annotation tools
Stickman marker – have some fun placing lots of little stickmen on your map! Â Stickman behaves like any of the other markers so you can edit the colour fill to add different coloured markers to represent various data.
Grid reference marker – just like the grid reference tool, this tool allows you to click on the map and a marker with a label of the grid reference. Â Grid reference markers on your map will then be saved or printed with your map.
Add points from file – this is exciting new tool allows you to upload a CSV file of point data that you may have collected on fieldwork, to create point annotations. Â This is really useful if you have collected data in a spreadsheet or using a mobile app. Â You can create a CSV file and providing you have location information (Postcode, Easting/Northings or Latitude/Longitude coordinates) you can add the points to your map. Â Have a go or see the help page for further information.
Resizing of uploaded photos has also been improved. Â Now if you use the Scale Feature tool to resize your photo, the photo is of much better quality as previously it became a bit pixelated. Â This is a really useful feature if you add graphs to your map as they will now be much clearer.