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Zooming the main map

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HELP I just cannot discover how to zoom the map on the site's opening page

asked 01 Nov '12, 12:37

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Many thanks. I feel such a fool---you get like that at my age. I could see and tried the arrows etc but whenever I asked to go to Edit I had the message "Zoom in First". Now I realise I have to zoom very close to get Edit to work. Phew. Not really for me this modern technology.

(01 Nov '12, 14:54) Nunc

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How are you viewing it? There should be a zoom in and out control to the top left (+ at the top to zoom in, - at the bottom to zoom out; the arrows above move the view around, or you can click and drag to pan). Double clicking should also zoom in. You should also be able to shift+click and drag a rectangle to zoom to that area.

But if you are viewing on a mobile device this might be different.

answered 01 Nov '12, 13:40

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