Working with Map Legend

Map legends show a key to the map overlays available on your map. It allows you to:
  • turn on or off individual overlay’s and individual layers in a map to show only the maps more appropriate to your requirements.
  • adjust translucency of a layer.

You can perform following actions by using Map Legend:

  1. Open the Spectrum Spatial Analyst application.
  2. Click or Touch the right side menu to open the Legend panel.
  3. Click or Touch the Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box next to the required map overlay in the legend to turn on a map overlay. Overlay check boxes can show following three states:
    1. Checked- when all children layers are checked.
    2. Unchecked- when all children layers are unchecked.
    3. Indeterminate(solid color filled)- when some and not all layers are checked.
  4. Click or Touch the overlay name or the or icon next to the overlay name to expand or collapse the legend display for an overlay. You can check or un-check individual map layers to show or hide them from the map.
  5. Click or Touch the Overflow icon next to the Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box to set the translucency of the layer. It has following options:
    Icon Name Description
    See deatiled results Click or Touch the view results icon to see the query results on the left hand panel.

    Note: This option is available with query results only. For more information, refer to Query Results View.
    Edit Click or Touch to edit annotation. For more information, refer to Editing Annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Map Information Click or Touch to see feature information for all the visible map layers intersecting with the underlying annotation on the left hand panel.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Move Click or Touch to move the annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Rename Click or Touch to rename the annotation.
    Note: This option is available for annotations.
    Delete Click or Touch the Delete icon to delete the query result.
    Opacity Click or Touch the or icon next to Opacity option to increase or decrease the translucency of a layer.
  6. Click or Touch the Overflow icon again to close it.
    Note: The Opacity Control icon appears only when Show\Hide Overlay on the Map check box is touched or clicked. The individual Layer Show\Hide option is available based on settings done in Admin Console.