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Maptitude® On-Line Training

Introductory Maptitude: Lesson 3

Themes & Legends

3.5 Creating Color Themes
  • Click color theme for the Color Theme dialog box or choose Map-Color Theme

Choose the layer you want to map, then pick the data field you want to see or create a formula field. MapWizard will take care of the rest, or you can customize the map settings any way you want. The settings include:

  • The method for determining how classes will be set up
  • The number of classes
  • Whether to ignore values above or below limits that you set
  • Whether to break the classes into ranges above and below some value
  • Whether to treat zeros as missing values, which are put into the Other class
  • Whether to round off the values in each class, to make the legend easier to read
  • Whether to include counts per class in the legend
  • For the standard deviation method, the number of standard deviations per class