An annotation is a drawing made on the top of a map to describe or
provide additional information about a specific zone of a map.
Annotations are labeled and are projected with respect to the
coordinate system of the map. Labels can be created to provide text
information and are displayed using the JViews Maps labeling
mechanism, (see Editing
annotation labels). You can also add a description to an
annotation that can be multiline, formatted using HTML tags, and
displayed as a tooltip when the mouse is held over the annotation.
You can use map annotations to add, for example, specific points,
borders, sections, divisions, limits, or areas of interest to your
map, (see Creating annotations). There are several
types of annotation that you can add:
- Points
- Polylines
- Polygons
- Links
Each time you create a point, polyline,
polygon or link, it is added to the annotations layer in the Map
Layers pane.
You can customize the annotations in a
number of ways and can also carry out management operations on
them. For example, you can change the line width, change the fill
color, modify the label, and make the annotation visible or
invisible. In the case of polylines and polygons, you can add or
remove a point to or from the annotation and drag a point to
another position to change the shape.
The following figure shows an example of
annotations
![Map displaying
point, line and polygon annotations](../../JViews_Defense/usrbldextdef/_media/annotations_default.png)
Adding Annotations to a Map
For more information about annotations, how to manage them, and how
to set their properties, see Managing annotations.