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Tutorial PolyMap

Starting PolyMap

Manual coloration

Coloration based on the data of the spreadsheet

Using the Shading Wizard

Set Map Background options

Define Layer and Label Zoom Range

Searching information in the map

Layers

Show Labels

How to hide Items in the map

Measure Distances

Save File


Starting PolyMap

1. 	Click open in the file menu to start Poly-Map.

2. 	Click the drive folder in the file box that contains the map file

3. 	Double-click folders in the folder list until you open the folder that contains the map file you want.

4. 	With the tabs you can select new maps or maps previously saved.

5. 	Double-click the map file you want to open.

6.  	Select the map USA.N98, Double-click to open.

While the file opens a progress bar appears indicating the state of file loading.

The map with the corresponding spreadsheet will be visualized in 2 windows.


Manual coloration

1. 	Select the Map window.

2. 	Click on the Select tab to of the map toolbar.

3. 	Click on the first icon.

4. 	Click on the areas of the map that you want to paint.

5. 	Click on the Edit tab of the map toolbar.

6. 	Click on the second icon.

It will open a dialog box for the Fill Style selection.

7. 	To combine a color with a pattern, click the pattern type combo box.

8. 	Select a Foreground and a Background Color using the 2 color tabs.

9. 	OK confirms your selection.


Coloration based on the data of the spreadsheet

When you create a map, the first step is to set up and select the data you want to display.

Add Data to the spreadsheet:

1. 	Select the spreadsheet window

2. 	Choose add Columns from the edit menu

3. 	The dialog box Add Columns opens.

4. 	Click twice on the [+] button to add 2 new columns.

5. 	Change the name of the first column from New1 to Population, the name of the second column from New2 to Area and the name of the third column from New3 to Density.

6. 	Change the datatype in the third column to Decimal Num.

7. 	Click OK to confirm.

Polymap creates 3 new columns and link them to the current map layer in the map window.

1. 	Enter the shown data in the table or open the file tutorial.txt in the Windows notepad.

2. 	Select all values and paste them to the windows clipboard.

Population	Area
4040587	51704.80
550043	591004.00
3665228	114000.10
2350725	53186.90
29760021	158706.10
3294394	104090.90
3287116	5018.30
666168	2044.50
606900	68.70
12937926	58663.70
6478216	58909.60
1108229	6470.80
1006749	83564.40
11430602	56345.10
5544159	36185.40
2776755	56275.30
2477574	82277.30
3685296	40409.50
4219973	47751.60
1227928	33265.00
4781468	10460.10
6016425	8284.10
9295297	58527.20
4375099	84401.90
2573216	47689.40
5117073	69697.10
799065	147045.60
1578385	77355.10
1201833	110560.70
1109252	9278.60
7730188	7787.30
1515069	121592.50
17990455	49107.90
6628637	52669.10
638800	70702.30
10847115	41329.60
3145585	69955.80
2842321	97072.80
11881643	45308.10
1003464	1212.30
3486703	31112.70
696004	77115.70
4877185	42143.60
16986510	266806.80
1722850	84899.20
562758	9613.80
6187358	40766.60
4866692	68138.50
1793477	24231.40
4891769	56152.90
453588	97809.40
3. 	Highlight the first cell of the Population column. With a right mouse click select paste.

4. 	Highlight the first cell of the Density column

5. 	Type =C1/D1 and press Enter.

6. 	In the selected cell the density of the first state in the spreadsheet, Alabama, is shown.

7. 	Highlight again the cell and move the mousepointer to the small black square in the corner of the selection. When you point to the fill handle, the pointer changes to a black cross. To copy contents to adjacent cells or to fill in a series such as dates, drag the fill handle.

8. 	Drag the fill handle at the end of the Density column.

9. 	All cells in this column are filled with the density value of each state.

10. 	In the File menu click Save as.

11.	In the Save as box, select the drive and folder where you want to save the map. To save the map in a new folder, click Create New Folder.

12.	In the File name box, type a name for the map. You can use long descriptive file names.

13. 	Click Save.


Using the Shading Wizard

1. 	Select in the map toolbar the edit group.

2. 	Click on the first icon.

This opens the Shading Wizard

3. 	Select the Simple button.

4. 	Select Density in the Column combo box.

5. 	Define 4 Ranges and the option Equal Count.

6. 	Double click the color you want to change. To replace the selected color with a different color, click the color you want.

7. 	Click Next.

8. 	On the Legend page type (USA – Population) as Title and (Density) as Subtitle.

9. 	If you want, you can adjust fonts, borders and background color for the legend and the texts that should appear in each Range. Important: the 3 lines for the text should be filled with at least one character, even if it is a space.

10. 	Close the assistant through the Finish button.

The map now will have the colors that you chose, depending on the values that you typed or pasted in the spreadsheet.


Set Map Background options

1.	Select Map Options in the map menu.

2. 	You can select a solid color background or a graduation between two colors changing the options in the Typ of color pattern combo box.

3. 	Use the 2 color selectores From Color and To Color to define start and endcolor for a graduation.

4. 	Define the Starting point of the pattern in the combo box. The Cycles in the pattern slider let you change the amount of steps in the graduation.

5. 	To confirm click on the Apply butom.


Define Layer and Label Zoom Range

1. 	Select the second tab of the Map Option dialog box.

2. 	Choose the Layer want to define the zoom or Label range to.

3. 	Set the values in kilometers between you want the layer or labels will be shown on the map.

4. 	To confirm click on the Apply butom.


Searching information in the map

1. 	Select the map window and the select tab on the map toolbar.

2. 	Use the combo box to search a state in the map.

3. 	Choose Florida.

The state of Florida is shown grayed and zoomed over the whole map window.

4. 	With a right mouse click on the state of Florida open a Info window showing the data of this state in the spreadsheet and indicating the longitude and latitude where you have clicked.

5. 	Change to the View tab at the map toolbar.

6. 	Select in the combo box 600 km.

The map will be redrawn showing an area of 600 km around of Florida.

7. 	Use the tools Zoom (+) Zoom (-) and Zoom all to do manual amplifications.

8. 	Draw a marquee around the area by dragging the Zoom (+) tool diagonally across it.  PolyMap then enlarges the selected area to fill the Map window.

The area enclosed by the dotted rectangle is the area that is being zoomed.  When you are done, the area enclosed by the Zoom-in marquee now occupies the entire map.


Layers

1. 	Select the map window.

2. 	Click Layers in the Map menu.

3. 	The layer menu opens showing all layers of the current map.

4. 	Disable the layer you want to turn off. You cannot turn off the active layer.

5. 	To turn off the active layer, first make an other layer active with the edit tab of the map toolbars.


Show Labels

1. 	Change to the Label tab at the map toolbar.

2. 	Click the font icon and select in the Dialog box Arial 36 pt.

3. 	Click the pin button, then click on the map where you want to place a label.

The text appears in the font size specified.

4. 	Click the label button. The map is automatically labeled. Click again, the labels no longer are displayed.

5. 	Change the label column in the combo box. Data from this column are now used for labeling.

6. 	To change the background color of the labels, click the color pallet button, and select a new color.


How to hide Items in the map

Use the command Hide Items to show only items with values of your choice.

1. 	Activate the map window

2. 	Select the Hide Items command from the map menu..

3. 	In the Dialog Hide Items select the column that contains the reference data. Depending on the type of the column, 2 or 4 operators will be available in the combo box.

4. 	Choose an operator and type a value of the approach.

If the column type is text type a word, if it is number type a value.

5. 	Click Apply to execute.

To return visualizing all the items of the current layer use button Show all.


Measure Distances

You can verify the latitude and longitude of a point on the map and measure the distances between 2 or more points.

1. 	Activate the map window

2. 	Change to the View tab at the map toolbar..

3. 	Select the icon [image].

4. 	Click on the map, indicating the starting point for the measurement. It appears the window info with the longitude and latitude coordinates of that point.

5. 	Click once again on the map, indicating a second point  for the measurement. It appears now the field distance in the window info, informing the distance of these two points. Now the field distance appears in the window info with information about the distance between these two points.

6. 	To continue the measurement click several times and you will have a sum of the distances.

7. 	To begin a new measurement, click again on the meter icon to disable and turn it on once again.


Save File

When you save a map for the first time, you assign a file name and indicate where you want to store the file on your computer's hard disk or in another location. Each time you subsequently save the map, PolyMap updates the map file with your latest changes.