Specify the Geographic Location

When you create a project, define its geographic location using the street address, nearest major city, or the latitude and longitude.

This project-wide setting is useful for generating location-specific shadows for views that use them, such as solar studies and walkthroughs.

1. Click Manage tabProject Location panel Location.
2. For Define Location by, select one of the following:
   • Default City List: Displays a list of major cities from which to select a location. Until you specify a different project location, the location is defined as <Default> and is set to the longitude and latitude of the major city specified for your locale. No Internet connection is required. When you select a city from the Default City List, the Weather tab is populated with data from the closest weather station listed in the 2007 ASHRAE Handbook.
   • Internet Mapping Service: When your computer is connected to the Internet, this option displays an interactive map through the Bing™ mapping service. Until you specify a different project location, the location is defined as <Default> and is set to the longitude and latitude of the major city specified for your locale.
     Note: The Internet Mapping Service requires a working Internet connection in order to be fully functional. If Internet service is unavailable, you can still use this method to specify a project location; however, the corresponding longitude and latitude for the location cannot be set until your Internet connection is restored, as described in this topic.
3. Specify the project location using one of these methods:
   1. Default City List:
      • Nearest major city. For City, select a city from the list.

        The corresponding Latitude, Longitude, and Time Zone values are displayed.

      • Exact location. Enter values for Latitude and Longitude.
   2. Internet Mapping Service: For Project Address, enter the street address, city and state, or latitude and longitude of the project, and click Search. Enter latitude and longitude coordinates as <latitude>, <longitude>. The value you enter for Project Address in this dialog does not affect the project address that displays in the title blocks of sheets for the project.

      Your search results display.

      1. If necessary, respond to any of the following alerts as described. For additional information, see Troubleshooting Location Dialog Issues.
         • Address not found. Either refine the project address and click Search or, for a newly established address, enter a nearby address, click Search, and then drag the project location map pin to the appropriate location.
         • Multiple results found. Click one of the hyperlinked locations displayed in the project location tooltip.
         • No Internet connection. Check your Internet connection. If no connection is available, click OK to close the Location dialog and save your project address. When a dialog notifies you of a mismatch between the project address you entered and the selected map location, click Continue. If you do not have access to the Internet at all, no further steps are needed; the project address is stored as text. If the Internet is only temporarily unavailable, when Internet service is restored, re-open the Location dialog, click Search, and continue with the steps in this procedure.
      2. Use the following tools to adjust the map as needed.
         • Pan. When you place the cursor over the map, the cursor changes to a hand, and you can click and drag the map to pan the view.
         • Zoom. Use the scroll wheel on your pointing device to zoom in and out.
      3. Adjust the map pins as needed.
         • Project location map pin. When you move the project location pin , the Project Address field displays a searchable latitude/longitude value. Click Search to resolve the address and display it in the Project Address field. If multiple results are found, click one of the hyperlinked locations displayed in the project location tooltip.
4. If the project is located in an area that observes daylight saving time and you want shadows to be adjusted accordingly, then select Use Daylight Saving time.
5. Click OK.