Adding data to a particular state

Click the button on the toolbar and draw a rectangle around the Los Angeles area to zoom in on it. If necessary, zoom in again until the Los Angeles area fills the Map View.

The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.

Choose File>Add Map Data to open the file browser, select the VMAP format, and then select the drive where you downloaded and saved your data.

For example, select the data source noamer

Select Transportation (Roads) in the Features Choice pane, click the button, and draw a rectangle around the part of the map where you want to add vectorial VMAP Data (Los Angeles). While you do this the Select Data Sources window remains open.

Choose Open.

The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.

In the Map Layers pane, open the VMAP hierarchy and select Road (secondary Route) to display the corresponding map style property sheet.

Select the Line Width property in the map style property sheet and set the Line Width value to 3.0.

Click in the right column of the Line Color property in the map style property sheet, click the button, and set the Line Color value to black using the Color Editor displayed.

The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.

Choose File>Add Map Data to open the file browser, select the GTOPO30-DEM format, and then select the drive where you downloaded and saved your data. For example, select the data source W140N40.DEM, and then choose Open.

The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane

Select the GTOPO30-DEM layer in the Map Layers pane and drag and drop it just below the ESRI/Shape layer.

Select the Preferences tab and set the Distances property to International Statute Mile, the Altitudes property to International Foot, and the Coordinates property to UTM.

Select the Map Layers tab to redisplay the pane and then click the button to display the whole map in the Map View pane.

The following figure shows the resulting Map View pane.

Select the VMAP layer in the Map Layers pane, click the button to zoom to the content of this layer, and then zoom in on Los Angeles.

Select the Visible in Overview property in the map style property sheet and set the value to false to prevent this layer being displayed in the Overview pane.

Click the button again to display the whole map in the Map View pane.