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MAP LOCATIONS
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MAP LOCATIONS
A Map Location is a location on the map that you define and assign to specific GPS coordinates.
Once a Map Location has been created it can be displayed on the map whenever necessary. When
viewing Historical Tracks, this enables you to quickly determine if any of these locations have been
traveled to.
Map Locations are organized into four catagories:
• Branch: Branch Record locations.
• Customer: Customer Record locations.
• Employee: Employee Record locations.
• Fixed: all other locations.
Each Map Location catagory is displayed using a unique icon to denote the location type, making
locations or landmarks that are commonly traveled to, easy to identify. Shadow Tracker Professional
allows you to create and save up to 500 Map Locations.
Creating a Map Location
Creating a Map Location is a simple two-step process, which consists of creating a database
record, and then assigning the record to specific GPS coordinates. If you have Branch, Customer
and Employee database records already created, they can be used to create a Map Location.
Assigning a Map Location sets specific GPS coordinates to a Map Location record. To assign GPS
coordinates to a record, the map scale must be below 500 ft.
Map Locations always need to be plotted as accurately as possible. The most accurate way to set
a Map Location is to first display a Historical Track which includes a stop at the location you intend
to set as a Map Location. Although this is not required, instructions for creating a Map Location
include loading a Historical Track before assigning the Map Location.
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IP: Shadow Tracker Professional comes with a data Import utility. If you already have Map
Location records in another software program, and if that program is able to create a comma-
delimited export file, the Import utility can be used to import and create these database records
for you. See Creating an Import File.
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