Many times a Session will have multiple Map Windows open and they will be zoomed or panned to differing areas within the map. By selecting the synchronizing map windows option, all Map Windows within the Session are adjusted to have the same view with respect to spatial extents in as much as possible. Since the Map Windows may have different shapes and use varying coordinate systems, the synchronization is just an approximation. The synchronization option works only within each Session; therefore, syncing Map Windows is not possible across different Sessions.
The following shows how to select the sync option from the Map Window node using the right-click menu in the Project Explorer.
The following shows how to select the sync option from the Map Window right-click menu.
Note that the two Map Windows as shown above have different zoom extents prior to synchronization. The following image shows the result of synchronizing the Map Window zoom extents.
