Maps
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The main window in Solar Maps always displays a map. When the program first starts, it will display a map of the world. You have the option of selecting any other stored map to be displayed, or of creating and customising your own maps. If you resize the window, then the map will be automatically redrawn to fit the new window size.
Solar Maps has a particularly powerful map database. It is possible to use it to create maps spanning the whole world, as well as maps spanning less than a single degree of longitude (typically equivalent to about 100 kilometres or 60 miles).
It is also possible to zoom into a map in increasing magnification to look at a region in greater detail, or to move a map in any direction in order to view adjoining regions which are off the edge of the current map.
When you first start using Solar Maps, you might prefer to use only the maps which are supplied with the program, and avoid using the more advanced map creation and editing features until you are more familiar with the capabilities of the program. In this case you need only know how to select a map.
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Re-Opening a Recently Used Map