Thales Navigation Mobile Mapper - Manual (Page 105)

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Changing the Visual Aspect of Layers
You can customize each layer by clicking on the correspond-
ing leftmost cell in the table. This opens a dialog box in
which you can choose the aspect you want for the layer when
the background map is built up later. As you will probably
notice, the available options are much similar to those avail-
able when creating features with the Feature Library Editor.
- For a point feature layer, you can choose the type of icon
that will be used to represent all the features pertaining to
the layer
- For a line feature layer, you can choose the color and
width of the line representing all the features pertaining
to the layer
- For an area feature layer, you can choose the fill-in color
for all the features pertaining to the layer.
In addition, you can also define the following:
- Edit the layer name
- Select which attribute to display together with the icon or
line
- Choose a scale value above which all features pertaining
to the layer will NOT be displayed on the Map Display
area or on the handheld screen.
Building the Background Map
Once you are done with adding, arranging and setting layers,
you can build the background map from these layers.
- First save the background map project using the
File>Save
command if you are happy with the project name or the
File>Save as command if you wish to rename the back-
ground map project.