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Global Mapper Documentation: Field Options

This document summarizes the field options in Global Mapper for classifying geospatial features. It lists 13 available fields for attributes like name, description, elevation, symbol, color, line style, fill style, and whether the feature is closed or an island. The fields allow classification and styling of features like lakes, rivers, cities, and other map items.

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Global Mapper Documentation: Field Options

This document summarizes the field options in Global Mapper for classifying geospatial features. It lists 13 available fields for attributes like name, description, elevation, symbol, color, line style, fill style, and whether the feature is closed or an island. The fields allow classification and styling of features like lakes, rivers, cities, and other map items.

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Global Mapper Documentation: Field Options

1. NAME, LABEL the feature name: A-Z, 0-9


2. DESC, DESCRIPTION, LAYER, TYPE feature description: A-Z, 0-9
3. GM_TYPE classification other than default for the feature:
o Anchorage Area
o City Park
o Country
o County
o Coverage/Quad
o Cropland
o Dry Lakebed
o Intermittent Lake
o Intermittent Stream/River
o Intertidal Area
o Island
o Isobath Area
o Iso-height Area
o Lake, < 0.5 sq. mi.
o Lake, > 500 sq. mi.
o Lake, 0.5 1 sq. mi.
o Lake, 1 5 sq. mi.
o Lake, 10 30 sq. mi.
o Lake, 100 250 sq. mi.
o Lake, 250 500 sq. mi.
o Lake, 30 -100 sq. mi.
o Lake, 5 10 sq. mi.
o Lake, Unknown Area
o Land Area
o Land Grant
o Large Metro Area
o Major National Park
o Major River
o Major State Park
o Marine Info Area
o Marine Traffic Zone
o Measurement
o Metro Area
o Minor River
o Misc. Manmade Structure
o National Park
o Ocean
o Orchard or Plantation
o Reef

o Regional River
o Reservation
o Rock
o Salt
o Sand
o Scattered Trees
o Scrub Area
o Small Metro Area
o Snow or Glacier
o State
o State Park
o Survey Section
o Tundra
o Unclassified Area Feature
o Unknown Area Type
o Wetland
o Wooded Area
4. ELEVATION, HEIGHT, DEPTH value will be used as features elevation: +/0-99999
5. SYMBOL, POINT SYMBOL, POINT_SYMBOL if this value matches one of
the following values, that symbol will be used for the point feature, attribute
names are ignored for line features:
o Airport
o Amusement Center
o Anchorage
o Arch
o Beacon
o Boat Ramp
o Bottom Conditions
o Bridge
o Building
o Buoy
o Campground
o Cemetery
o Church
o City, < 10K
o City, > 10M
o City, 100K 500K
o City, 10K 50K
o City, 1M 10M
o City, 500K 1M
o City, 50K 100K
o City, Population Unknown
o Cliff

o Country
o County
o Dam
o Danger
o Geyser
o Golf Course
o Hospital
o Island
o Land Grant
o Landmark
o Library
o Lighthouse
o Lodging
o Marina
o Military Installation
o Mine
o Park
o Picnic Area
o Post Office
o Restrooms
o Rock
o School
o Shopping
o Spot Elevation
o Spot Sounding
o Stadium
o State
o Stream Origin
o Summit
o Swimming Area
o Tower
o Unclassified Point Feature
o Unknown Point Feature
o Waterfall
o Waypoint
o Weigh Station
o Well
o Wreck
6. COLOR formatted as RGB (red, green, blue). In the absence of specific fill or
line color, it will be used
7. LINE COLOR, LINE_COLOR, BORDER COLOR, BORDER_COLOR,
PEN COLOR, PEN_COLOR formatted as RGB (red 0-255, green 0-255, blue
0-255)

8. LINE WIDTH, LINE_WIDTH, BORDER WIDTH, BORDER_WIDTH,


PEN WIDTH, PEN_WIDTH (1-10)
9. LINE STYLE, LINE_STYLE, BORDER STYLE, BORDER_STYLE, PEN
STYLE, PEN_STYLE
o Solid
o Dash
o Dot
o Dash Dot
o Dash Dot Dot
o Null
o Railroad
o Striped
o Left Facing Line
o Right Facing Line
10. FILL STYLE, FILL_STYLE in order to use a fill style you must include
CLOSED=TRUE
o No Fill
o Solid Fill
o Backwards Diagonal Cross-Hatch
o Cross-Hatch
o Diagonal Cross-Hatch
o Forward Diagonal Cross-Hatch
o Horizontal Hatch
o Vertical Hatch
o Sand Pattern
o Intermittent Water Pattern
o Salt Pattern
o Coral Pattern
11. FILL COLOR, FILL_COLOR RGB(red 0-255, green 0-255, blue 0-255), in
order to use fill color you must include CLOSED=TRUE
12. CLOSED if this is set to YES or TRUE, the feature will be treated as a
closed area feature and if it has at least vertices
13. ISLAND if this is set to YES or TRUE, the feature will be treated as an
island of the previous closed parent area feature if it has at least three vertices. If
there are no previous parent areas, this attribute will be ignored.

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