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- MAP REGIONS
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- Geographic files can be displayed in user-defined parts of the
- monitor.
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- A map region is established when a geographic file is displayed. The
- region is defined by the geographic window (or subset) and its displayed
- defined in a map.
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- A geographic window is the total area of the geographic file. Files
- are subset as a data preparation process.
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- A viewport is selected by positioning the cursor on the monitor with
- the mouse or arrows (i.e. it is a rectangular part of the screen).
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- Map regions enable complex map layouts to be generated. Maps often
- have only one region, typically zones from one geographic file displayed on
- the default viewpoint on the monitor. Multiple regions, each with defined
- window and viewport provide many possibilities e.g. subsets of a main map
- can be added as new regions at high magnification e.g. extreme parts of a
- map can be chopped off and added on as new regions in a corner e.g. several
- files for different parts of a country could be displayed as separate map
- regions.
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- It is possible to overlay data from geographic files onto a map
- region. More than one set of zones from a geographic file can be displayed
- in a region but the zones being displayed will overwrite any underlying
- zones.
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- Geographic files are automatically windowed, scaled and clipped for
- display on map regions.
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- When multiple files are displayed on a region, the precedure order is
- quantised zones, lines, sites, line overlays, markers and finally text at
- points.
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- Multiple regions can be defined anywhere on the map display area of
- the monitor. However, if regions overlap the display procedure is
- established by the order of display. Therefore the user should consider
- the order of display carefully in multiple region presentations.
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- Geographic files can be displayed in any order, and
- regions can be defined and changed as desired. Many of these operations
- destroy the data in the display system memory (the map display is
- corrupted) so F3 must be typed to completely regenerate the map display.
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