Terrain Viewer
Features

Keyboard Shortcuts

Every global keyboard shortcut, in one place

Visualization modes

  • Shift (tap alone, either side, Terrain mode only) — toggle the Raster Basemap on/off, without opening the sidebar.
  • Ctrl (tap alone, either side, Terrain mode only) — hide every visualization mode down to just the plain basemap; tap again to restore whichever modes were on.
  • Space — re-toggle whichever visualization-mode checkbox you last clicked, even after a map drag has moved keyboard focus onto the map canvas.
  • L (hold, Terrain mode only) + drag — set the Hillshade illumination direction/altitude directly on the map instead of panning it; release L or the mouse to exit.
  • Ctrl + K — jump focus to the search box (geocoder) from anywhere.
  • / (after editing a dropdown) — cycle through that dropdown's options without reopening it.

Historical Timeline

  • / (after picking a date) — step that view's picked date one mark at a time.
  • Ctrl + drag (timeline handle) — also sweeps every other handle on that same side along with it, by the same number of marks.

Drawing

  • Esc — bail out of whatever drawing tool is active (point, polygon, circle…) back to Select.

With a layer's Feature Iterator open (the loop toggle on a layer row — see Tools → Drawing), and focus outside a text field:

  • / N — frame the next feature, / P — the previous one (wraps around at either end).
  • D / Delete / Backspace — delete the currently framed feature, then frame the next one.

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