Tutorial: View the Project QuickMap

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

With the "Samples" boreholes still loaded into the Borehole Manger, let's take a quick look at the new "QuickMap" pane we've added to the Borehole Manager.

! In your own work, this is a good way to be sure the borehole locations have been entered correctly – you’ll see "errant" wells quickly. This map is not intended to replace the Map menu tools in the Borehole Manager (which you'll do in the next lesson) but for quick visualization only.

If this is the first lesson you’ve done, please be sure you've (1) opened a project folder, (2) restored the program defaults, and (3) set the output dimensions.
 

1. Return to the Borehole Manager window, if necessary, by clicking on the Borehole Manager tab near the top of the program window.
    
2. Locate the QuickMap tab, located next to the Borehole Data tab, and click on it.

Here you should see the boreholes in the current project.

3. Click on the Enlarge and Reduce buttons to experiment with these "zoom" tools. to the right to view the default settings for this map. You'll note that the "Size" setting changes with the zoom update. When you are zoomed in, you can use the scroll bars along the right and bottom to scroll to other portions of the map.
   
   The AutoFit button can be used to scale the display to fit within the QuickMap pane.
    
4. Background Image:  Check this option. Click on the down arrow button to set up the image.
   • Name: Click the small button to the right of this prompt to browse for the file "1955_Airphoto.png" in the Samples folder.
   • Image Location: Choose Output Dimensions here. The image will be placed on the map stretched to fill the current Output Dimensions. In your own work, you can locate the image using a separate coordinate World File, or by manually typing in the image's edge coordinates.
   • Click back in the map image and click the Replot button and the image wll be displayed.
   • You can check and un-check the Background Image checkbox to plot/remove the image from the display.
      
5. Experiment with checking and un-checking the other map options to see their effect on the map. You can click any of their drop-down menus to see and adjust their settings.
   
   
6. Click on the Save Image button to export this small map to a bitmap file.
   • Into the Save As window type in the name: Quickmap.bmp and click Save.
     RockWorks will save the current map as a BMP file in your project folder.
     
     

7. Click back on the Borehole Data tab for the next lesson.
    

  Quick Maps
 

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