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Measure provides tools that allow you to determine the area of a surface, the length of a vector, the aggregate length of multisegment lines, and the location and elevation of a point. Before or after performing each measurement, you can set or change length units or area units, implicitly converting existing measurements. The task also provides a way to add the measurement as a note on the map.

To make a measurement
  1. Choose the tool you want to use.
  2. Move the mouse pointer over the map and click as appropriate; for example, a single click with the Point location tool will provide the location and elevation of that point; click once for every vertex of a multisegment line or polygon, and double-click to signal the end of all line types or a polygon.
    The measurement will appear in the area below the tools.
To move the map while measuring
To change units
To change coordinate units