OpenGround - Edit a Map Line Style

This section covers how to edit and style basic Line styles, how to create creating condition styles is covered in Creating Conditional Themes on Mapping Datasets.

The various settings that can be assigned and altered in editing a Line style are arranged in sections:

Legend
Stroke
Zoom Level

Legend

The Legend section has one entry; it is used to specify the label used for the layer in the Map Legend.

Label: Enter the text for the legend label

Condition: See Creating Conditional Themes on Mapping Datasets section.

Stroke

Defines the line properties.

Style: The possible styles that can be used to fill the feature line.
Colour: The line colour.
Opacity: The level of transparency for the line, the value ranges from 0, completely transparent to 255, completely opaque, slide the market to the appropriate value.
Thickness: The width of the line, defined in stroke Units
Units: The units to specify the width of the line, Screen Pixel can be used to define the width relative to the display, by using Screen Pixels, the line width will stay the same on any zoom level, using any other Unit will make the line width relative to the map that is as the map is zoomed in or out the line width will get bigger or smaller.

Zoom level

The zoom level in the style manager gives extra control over the zoom ranges the features are displayed. The allowable minimum and maximum levels are defined by those given for the dataset when imported, but within this range the levels can be further control.

Save

Press save to commit the changes and update the map.