Other Map Cartography Essentials

Horizontal Map of Administrative Divisions of China

  • Chongqing 3D Shading Map indicates the administrative division scope and administrative center from province to county, which is convenient to be used as the base map;
  • The four boundaries of the attached map of the South China Sea Islands need to be strictly controlled and can not be drawn at will, and the elements in the attached map need to be consistent with those in the main map at any scale;
  • In the administrative division map, regions, autonomous prefectures and leagues do not need to add point symbols, but can directly indicate annotations, and the administrative center annotations of these places need to be underlined.

Economic Zone Map

  • To make a map for printing out, you can use Fixed Scales to examine the map effect only at the current scale;
  • Common regional maps have strict requirements on the Annotation Location of administrative points. The annotation of administrative points in the same province (city) must be in the province (city). Use the Move Label function to adjust the location of the label appropriately;
  • Different colors of the same color system are used to create the layering of the map;
  • The representation of zoning features is done using CAD Dataset.

Heat map

  • Color gradations from cool to warm or from light to dark in the same color system can be used to show changes in the relative or weighted density of point elements;
  • Select the appropriate Color Scheme for the heat map and set the transparency for the two key colors respectively, so as to highlight the heat distribution of the thematic elements while retaining the readability of the base map elements;
  • Set the Weight Field "to control how much discrete points affect the density, set the Core Radius to modify the range of influence of each discrete point, and set the Color Gradient Ambiguity and Max Color Weight to adjust the rendering of color bands;
  • When the scale is small, if the features are too clustered and the density distribution of the points is weakened, you can use the custom maximum value to improve the Display Effects of the heat map.

Grid aggregation graph

  • The change of the grid color can intuitively show the difference of the number of the points represented by the aggregation point and the single point, and the color of the grid becomes warmer or darker to reflect that the number of the points represented becomes larger as the grids with close distance are aggregated into one grid for display;
  • Set the Grid Field to control the degree of influence of discrete points on the values represented by the grid;
  • Select The appropriate Color Scheme for the Grid Aggregation Map and set the transparency for the two key colors to highlight the distribution status of the thematic features while maintaining the readability of the base map features. At this time, the system will perform a transparency gradient on the color in the Color Scheme;
  • Modify the border line and Label Style of the grid to improve the map Display Effects, and use colors of the same color system and different shades to coordinate the overall color matching and enrich the map performance level.