Category Archives: 2. Ancient Woodland Layers

Exercise 1.9: Print your Map Printing options are many, but we are going to stick to the easy options. From the File menu select Print Make sure the view is Landscape and select Scaled Print Select the Automatic tab and … Continue reading →

Exercise 1.9: Insert your Legend There are 2 basic ways to display a key. As an overlay on your map, or in the margin of a printed map. The second is more involved and will be dealt with later. Here … Continue reading →

Exercise 1.7: Create a map key Map Maker doesn’t make keys automatically, and the automation tools that do exist take a bit of time to learn and to tune well.  Map Maker is orientated to making maps from the ground … Continue reading →

Exercise 1.6: Assign the style using the database In the next step we are going to match our chosen style set with a suitable field in the database, so that it displays our scheme correctly. Call up the Project Manager … Continue reading →

Exercise 1.5: Remove the labels and change the style By default, the new layer (AWI_EAST_LOTHIAN) uses the Project Style Set to colour the Polygons. This can have unpredictable results – strange colour schemes and labels, but no harm is done … Continue reading →