Note
This section assumes that you have downloaded appropriate data to
your workstation. For a list of suggested free sources for
downloading map data, see Map data
To create the map containing the data sources described in An example map:
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Start the Map Builder as described in Running the Map Builder .
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Choose File>New Map to clear the Map View of any map data.
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Choose File>Add Map Data to open the file browser, select the GeoTIFF format, and then select the drive where you have downloaded your data. For example, select the data source World2_24M.tif, and then choose Open.NoteYou can copy all the files to your workstation for faster access.
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Click the
button to
fit the whole world into the view.
The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.
The data source World2_24M -
Choose File>Add Map Data to open the file browser, select the ESRI/Shape format, and then select the drive where you have downloaded and saved your data. For example, select the data source ESRI/Shape World_countries.shp, and then choose Open.The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.
The data source World_countries.shp