Add

When adding stylesheets you can select one of the template stylesheets, or a stylesheet from an existing project or simply a blank stylesheet:

• From Template: Browse for and select one or multiple existing stylesheet templates and add them to your project.

• From Existing: Browse or search for stylesheets from existing Projects. Select one or multiple existing stylesheets and add them to your project.

• Blank: A new blank stylesheet is added and opened.

Organize

When organizing stylesheets, the stylesheets in the project are listed, and it is possible to perform the operations; Duplicate, Rename, or Delete.

Additional stylesheets can be added using the Add button at the top of the Organize window.

Style Editor

Style families are listed on the left, and default styles on the right. The Style Editor comes with a predefined list of families and styles that can be used as-is, or can be edited or removed. Drag styles to reorder them or move them from one family to another.

The styles are global to the system and are available in the World Map Editor, based on what is available in the Viz scene. Any style in the system that is not part of the scene will be disabled in the editor, and any style that is part of the scene but is not defined as part of the global styles will be available in the Others family.

To create a new style family

1. In the Style Editor, click the New button to create a new family, then give it a name

   

2. Within the family, click the New Style button to add new styles

   

3. Fill in the details for the style:

   1. Type (point, line, area)

   2. Name

   3. Icon: Select a new icon in the file browser

   4. Color, opacity etc. Only possible for Area and Line.

      

4. Click Save Changes

To select a new default style

1. Drag a style from the family list to the default list, and drop it on the desired style.

2. Click Save Changes.

Style

When defining land styles you first select whether the map should have a Synthetic, Relief or Natural style.

• Synthetic gives the map a basic style, where you can select a single Fill Color or four fill colors. If you select four fill colors, no country, adjacent to each other, will have the same color. Both Relief and Natural styles can mix with Synthetic utilizing its single or four color option. The Ice Color can be set separately.

• Natural gives you the option to select which satellite imagery provider to use (e.g. Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Digital Globe, Planet Observer, and so on). In addition you can adjust the map’s brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, and tint.
  If the stylesheet uses either Google Maps, Digital Globe or Microsoft Bing, you can set which imagery profile to use as default. The profiles provide different imagery sets for the same location. If required, the operator can change the profile from the Map Editor Toolbar when selecting the desired final location.

  

• Relief contour colors work the same way as for Sea. It gives you the option to define colors at varying levels of height (i.e. from 0 to 8000 m.a.s.l.). Clicking below the bar adds a new handle. Double-clicking a handle will open a color picker for setting a color for that level. Dragging the handle horizontally will adjust the height parameter. Dragging the handle vertically will remove the handle.

  

Drop Shadow

Drop Shadow can be added to land, lakes/wide rivers, and narrow rivers. The drop shadow effect also allows you to adjust the angle of the shadow, and its distance and softness (spread).

Relief Shading

Relief shading can be added to land. When enabled you can define how the light will affect the relief by adjusting the highlight (by click and drag). The Size and Intensity settings will help you control the appearance of the relief texturing on the map.

Refine Relief will add extra detail to the relief. This is especially helpful when zooming in at low levels.

The image below shows a map with Refine Relief enabled and disabled: