Capturing and editing features

Capture the tree you just planted, correct a species name, or remove the record for a stump that has been ground out.

Adding a feature

The add button floats over the bottom-right of the feature list, reading Add Tree in our example. Press it and the panel opens capture tools: Address or coords, Click on map, Device location, and Paste. On a line or area layer, each placed coordinate adds a corner, and Stop drawing finishes once the shape has enough points. Cancel drawing stays in the floating button.

Copying and pasting

A copy helps with a row of near-identical fence posts. Press Copy under a feature’s title, press the add button, then press Paste. New location reuses the details while you place the shape, and Original location duplicates the feature where it was.

Editing details

Select the feature, press Update, and change its values. The tick beside the title saves and the cross cancels. If a value won’t do, the field at fault is marked with what’s wrong. The arrows beside the title move straight on to the next feature, which helps when updating records one after another in the field.

Editing a shape or position

Press Update, then drag the feature, or its corner points, on the map. Right-clicking, or pressing and holding on a touch device, offers the geometry actions that make sense where you clicked, like Move point here or Add vertex.

Also good to know

• Measurements. Open a line or area feature and press the ruler button under its title to label each stretch long enough to show its length, plus the total for a line or the area and perimeter for a shape. While adding a line or area, Show measurements does the same during drawing and leaves the ruler on for the feature that is created. A line of a single stretch shows its total on its own, at every zoom.
• Deleting a feature. In edit mode, the trash icon beside the tick and cross deletes the feature, after a confirmation.
• Downloading a layer. Download, in the layer’s ⋮ menu, saves the layer to a file on your device, including any edits not yet saved back to the source.
• Saving your changes. On a map you can edit, Save writes your change back to the map’s source for your teammates to see; edits to a demo map are local and reset when you reload. On maps that support it, teammates’ changes appear in your copy while you have the map open.

Next: Troubleshooting.