Map window

A map window may display one or more raster maps combined with one or more polygon maps, segment maps and/or point maps. Maps that are displayed in a map window are called data layers. The legend of each map is automatically displayed in the Layer Management pane of a map window.

A map window can also display three images of a map list as an interactive color composite, or all maps of a map list as a slide show.

Optionally, you can create an Annotation Text object which usually contains the labels of a point, segment or polygon map. You can add multiple Annotation Text objects to a map window.

Furthermore, you can add grid lines and graticules as a layer to a map window.

A map window displaying one or more maps, a map list, one or more annotation text layers, optional grid lines and graticules can be saved as a map view. Map views can be added to a layout which is used to make a final composition before printing. To the layout, you can add further annotation such as legends, map borders including ticks and coordinates for grid lines or a graticule, north arrows, scale bars and scale texts, texts (such as a title), boxes, bitmaps and pictures, and a page border.

Mind: In a layout, a map view may only contain one raster map.