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Maptitude® On-Line Training

Introductory Maptitude: Lesson 3

Themes & Legends

3.3 Choosing Themes
  • Color often used first when exploring data
  • Pattern good for black and white printing
  • Color or pattern best for negative numbers (you can break at zero) and only choice for character fields
  • Use chart or dot density to show values for two or more fields
  • Don’t use chart or dot density for percentages, ratios or averages; these statistics should be shown with color, pattern, or scaled-symbol themes