Maptitude^® On-Line Training

Maps

• Click Autoscale in the Layers dialog box for the Autoscale dialog box
• Layer will be visible if the map scale is between the largest and smalles scales

Autoscale makes maps more readable by preventing too many features from being drawn in too small a space. For example, when the scale of your map is set to show the entire U.S., you do not want to see all the streets. When you zoom in on a single city, however, you do want to see the streets. Autoscale makes this happen automatically.

Once autoscale is enabled, Maptitude checks the scale each time a map is drawn and decides whether or not each layer should be drawn. Most of the geographic files included with Maptitude have built-in autoscaling. Use the Autoscale dialog box if you want to change the built-in autoscale settings.