Contour layer display settings

Spatial Explorer provides numerous display property options for contour layers. These options include display properties for Kingdom contour lines and labels, fault polygon display, and color gradient fill between contour lines.

Lines

The contour line properties you can change include line color and style, how frequently to bold lines (every nth line), and the thickness of the bolded lines. You can also specify the value where you want to start the line count for the bolding interval.

Labels

For labels, you can change the font, font size, font color, and text decoration (bold and italics). You can change the spacing between labels on the same line, the label interval (every nth line), and the number of decimal places to display for numeric data.

Fault polygons

For contours that contain fault polygon data, you can turn the display of the faults on or off and change the fill color, line color, and line style of these faults.

Color fill

Spatial Explorer provides several options for displaying a color fill for contours on the Spatial Explorer map. You can turn color fill on and off by selecting the Color fill option, choose a color bar, and reverse the color bar. You can also change the opacity for a range of values. For more information about using the color bar, see Using The Color Bar .

 

  1. Click next to the contour layer name in the Layers list.
  2. Click Display Properties.
  3. Specify the line display properties you want, or accept the defaults.
  4. If you want data labels, select the Labels option and specify the label properties you want (or accept the default values).
  5. If the contour layer contains fault polygon data, select the Fault Polygons option to display them and then choose the display options you want to use (or accept the defaults).
  6. If you want to display a color fill for the contour layer, select the Color fill option and then select the display options you want or accept the defaults.
  7. After you have set your display properties, click Apply to preview them or OK to accept them.