Before you display your map you need to decide what method to use to locate your map. How you locate your map will often depend on the information you have to start with.
For example, if you are searching for a rural location, you may want to use an Easting and a Northing. If you are searching for a specific building or site in an urban area, using the address or postcode is more appropriate.
If you know the location of the site you are looking for but don’t have an address or grid reference, you can locate to a site in the general area on a Town, Explorer or Street map. Then search for your site by moving around the map. See To locate a site without an address or OS Tile number for further details.
•Address – You can use this method to locate your site using a full postcode, partial postcode and street name, building name or number, organisation or simply a town name.
•Place name – This allows you to search for well-known landmarks such as The British Museum,
•OS Tile number – If you are trying to locate a rural location you may have an Ordnance Survey Tile number.
•Easting & Northing Coordinates: – An Easting and Northing value will identify any single point on a map. They are given as values in meters, and take the form 528951, 179637 where the first number is the Easting and the second is the Northing.
If you are going to export data from Promap into your CAD or GIS system and you know the Easting and Northing of the data you require you can click on Locate by export frame.
•Rectangle Export (Using Centre Point) - this option will require you to enter the Easting and Northing co-ordinates, in metres, for the centre of the area you are interested in. Then you will be required to enter the width and height, in metres, of the export rectangle you wish to create on the map.
•Rectangle Export - this option will require you to enter the Easting and Northing co-ordinates, in metres, for the top-left and bottom-right corners of your required export rectangle.
•Circle Export - this option will require you to enter the Easting and Northing co-ordinates, in metres, for the centre of your export circle and then set the radius you require around it.
•Shape Export - this option will require you to upload a SHP file as a zip file, or a DXF file to define your site area.
See also
To locate a new site by export frame
To search for sites to develop