Setting up Map Themes

Creating Map Themes enables you to consistently return to a map view with only the map layers, styles, and settings relevant to a specific project. For example, if you’re working on a project concerning Parks and Recreation, you might create a Map Theme with layers displaying bike lanes and trails. You might not create the Map Theme with a layer showing manholes.

You have many options for editing the look and feel of the data that is displayed in each Map Theme. Each individual Map Theme can have its own unique set of layers, styles, order, controls, and features. When you save a Map Theme it includes all your current settings in LandVision™. There is no limit on the number of Map Themes that you can create.

The following example workflow is intended to increase your understanding of Map Themes.

  1. Click the Open button at the bottom of the Legend. The Open Map Views window appears.

    Note: Home is the default Map Theme set up by your Administrator. It is the best practice not to overwrite the Home Map Theme.

  2. Select Production from the Folder drop-down list.

  3. Select Home in the Available list.

  4. Click OK. This enables access to the list of layers that are currently displayed in the Home Map Theme. You access these layers later in this workflow.

  5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the Legend. The Save As… box appears.

  6. Perform the following in the Save As… box:

    • Folder: Select the User folder.

    • Name: Enter Parks as the name to save this Map Theme. (Let’s assume for this example we are working on creating a Parks Map Theme.)

    • Tip: Saving the Map Theme to your USER folder allows you to make edits and changes to the Map Theme and get any final approvals before sharing this information to all users in the Production folder.

  7. Click the More Layers button at the bottom of the Legend to add any desired layers now in the Production folder to the Legend. The Browse Layers window appears. See the section above, Adding Layers to the Legend, for instructions.

  8. With all layers now added to the Parks Map Theme, you can begin grouping the layers and setting the view status. See Layer Properties above for instructions.

    Tip: LandVision™ allows you to define whether a layer is automatically On or Off when the Map Theme is loaded, as well as whether the layer is identified.

    Tip: LandVision™ utilizes Autosave functionality. When you exit, and then log back into the application, it zooms to the last map view, including the same Map Theme.

  9. At this point in the workflow:

    • You could Share this Map Theme with another user for approval. OR,

    • You could Save this Map Theme to the Production Folder to provide access to anyone in the agency.

Here’s how you would Share the Map Theme:

  1. Save the Map Theme to the Share folder.

  2. Instruct the other user to click the Open button at the bottom of the Legend, and then navigate to the Share folder where the file you saved is located.

  3. The other user can make additional changes to the Map Theme and either overwrite the changes or save them with a different name.

Once the Map Theme is approved, it can to be saved to the Production folder for anyone in the agency to access it.

Here’s how you would save the Map Theme directly to the Production folder:

  • Click the Save button at the bottom of the Legend and select the Production folder.

  • Name the Map Theme and click Save.

Now anyone in the agency has access to this new Map Theme.