This section covers how to edit and style basic area 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 an area style are arranged in sections:
- Legend
- Condition
- Fill
- Outline
- 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.
Fill
Defines the area fill properties.
- Style: the possible styles that can be used to fill the feature area.
- Colour: the area fill colour.
- Opacity: the level of transparency for the area fill, the value ranges from 0, completely transparent to 255, completely opaque, slide the market to the appropriate value. Outline
- This section describes the options available to specify the outline of the feature area Style: The Line Style to use to outline the feature.
- Colour: The outline line colour.
- Opacity: The level of transparency for the outline the value ranges from 0, completely transparent to 255, completely opaque, slide the market to the appropriate value.
- Thickness: The width of the outline, defined in outline Units
- Units: The units to specify the size of the outline, Screen Pixel can be used to define the size relative to the display, by using Screen Pixels, the outline size will stay the same on any zoom level, using any other Unit will make the outline size relative to the map that is as the map is assumed in or out the outline 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.