Navigate the map
Pan, zoom, and rotate a Felt map. Find coordinates, set the default view, or share a link to a specific view.
Drag a Felt map to pan it, and scroll or pinch to zoom. You can also rotate the map, but you can't tilt it or view it in 3D. To show terrain, add the Global Library's Terrain layer, or add ESRI Hillshade tiles as a custom basemap. See Terrain, hillshade, and contour lines.
Pan and zoom the map
To pan with the keyboard, press the arrow keys.
To zoom without scrolling, press + or -, or click + or - at the bottom right of the map.
To zoom to a layer, feature, or annotation, select it and press F.
To zoom to an exact level, press Cmd+J (Mac) or Ctrl+J (Windows) to open Jump to zoom, enter a level up to 23 in Zoom, and click Zoom map. You can enter up to two decimal places, such as
12.25.
For the full list of shortcuts, see Keyboard shortcuts.
Rotate the map
To rotate a Felt map with a mouse, right-click and drag the map.
On a touch screen, twist two fingers.
With the keyboard, press Shift+Left arrow or Shift+Right arrow to rotate in 15° steps.
To set an exact bearing, press Cmd+J (Mac) or Ctrl+J (Windows) to open Jump to zoom, enter a value from 0 to 360 in Rotation, and click Zoom map.
A compass 
appears at the bottom right only while the map is rotated. To return the map to north, click the compass or press Shift+Up arrow.
The default view doesn't store a rotation, but a link to the map does. To share a link that keeps the map's rotation, see Link to a specific view.
Set the default view
A map's default view sets the location and zoom level everyone sees when they open it. Without one, Felt fits the view to the map's layers and annotations. You need Edit access to set it.
Click Edit map in the toolbar at the top right of the map.
Pan and zoom the map to the view you want.
Open the Felt menu and click View > Set current view as default. Felt confirms with Saved current view as default.
To go back to fitting the map to its contents, open the Felt menu and click View > Restore default view. Press 0 at any time to return to the default view.
People can still move away from the default view. To keep people inside an area or a range of zoom levels, use map constraints.
Link to a specific view
When you click Copy link in the Share menu, Felt adds your current location, zoom level, and rotation to the link's loc parameter:
https://felt.com/map/Kontur-Population-yiQAmRZ9CTTK49CHfYp9AauvC?loc=32.55,23.37,3.26z
The loc value contains the latitude and longitude at the center of the view, then the zoom level followed by z. When the map is rotated, it ends with the bearing followed by b, such as ,45b. Edit these values to share or embed other views. See Embed a map.
Find coordinates on the map
Right-click a point on the Felt map to open a menu with its latitude and longitude. On a touch screen, touch and hold the point instead. Click the coordinates to copy them, with more decimal places than the menu shows. To view the same location in another map, click Open in in the menu and select Google Maps, Google Street View, or OpenStreetMap.
To go to coordinates, enter them in the Search tool at the top right. Search accepts decimal degrees, degrees and decimal minutes, and degrees, minutes, and seconds, with latitude first. See Search.
Hide the interface to present a map
To hide Felt's panels and toolbar so the map fills the window, press Cmd+. (Mac) or Ctrl+. (Windows). Press the shortcut again to show them. You can also click View > Hide UI in the Felt menu.
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