Add Pins and Text Boxes to a Military Map

Tutorial 2 of 17 · Beginner · 5 min

Add notes to the map with pins and text boxes. Their content is stored and exchanged with the layer in MilX®.

You need

A current desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) with map.army open. No installation, no account and no prior knowledge of the app or of military symbology standards are needed: the tutorial starts from an empty situation map.

Watch the tutorial

Hint: The video was recorded with an earlier version of map.army, so the interface may look slightly different today. A step-by-step written version will follow.

Learn more

Every control used in the video is described in the documentation: Generic Graphics: Draw Pins, Lines, Areas and Shapes.

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