Preferences Mode

Use this form to control which features are named on the maps and to assign fonts to them. The grid overlay is also controlled here.

The Special menu has some additional commands to set the home view, turn off all selected labels and define shortcut commands.

Press OK to set the new options and return to Plot Mode.

The Special menu contains a few infrequently used commands (see below).

You can overlay lat/lon grid lines on the map. You can also have numerical lat/lon values in a variety of fonts.

Set whether country names are shown and which font to use. The `2 letter codes' are useful when a lot of names are visible.

Optional display of the names of and oceans and lakes and a pop-up menu for choosing a font to use.

Control display of the names of islands and optionally, their owner (home) countries. (See the note on islands.)

Select between displaying all city names, just the capitals, or none. Choose the font to use for city names.

You can switch the Tool Button off if you don't like it.
Choose the units used in for measuring; options are miles, kilometers or nautical miles.

The `Huge' font is only supported under PalmOS 3.0 or later; on earlier versions of the operating system (Pilot 1000® and Pilot Professional®) this font will be the same as `Large'.

Special Menu

Deselect all labels hides all the place name labels which have been selected (using Find.. or the Select Tool)

Set home position records the current view as the home position which you can recall using the Home command.

Assign shortcuts lets you assign commands to the 6 hardware buttons or to Graffiti® strokes.

Reset everything restores all settings, including the shortcuts, selected labels and all preferences to the built-in defaults. You probably won't normally want to do this.

Assign shortcuts

Over 40 different commands are available: altering preferences, panning and zooming, changing pen mode, and so on.

Multiple commands can be assigned to the same Graffiti® stroke; they will be executed in sequence.

Tap OK to confirm the current command assignment and return to Plot Mode.

There are nine pages, each with slots for six shortcuts. Page 0 is for the hardware buttons.

A range of different step sizes from 5% to 25% can be used for the zoom commands.

Select the command to be assigned to the corresponding character or hardware button.

Each field can contain one character, writing the character in Plot Mode executes the corresponding command.

A range of different step sizes from 5% to 25% can be used for the pan commands.

When the same character is used more than once, a dot appears to the left of it to remind you. Writing the character (in Plot Mode) will execute each of the commands assigned to it in sequence, starting from Page 0.

Islands...

Certain place names such as Northern Ireland are tagged as Island even though they wouldn't normally be thought of as such. In CITYZEN's database, any country name label which isn't the main label for that country is marked as Island. This works for most islands, but might lead to some confusion because islands which are also countries, such as Maldives are marked as Country and not as Island. Make sure you use All in Find Mode if you are not sure what category a place will be in.