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Maps 316 - Using XPression Maps 3.0 Manage Templates Tool to Add Shape Styles for Newsroom Users in the XPression MOS Maps Workflow

XPression Maps allows the Maps Designer to design and utilize styles to colorize and label shapes with consistency. Using the Manage Templates Tool in XPression Maps, those styles can be shared on the XPression Maps Server so the XPression MOS users can access them. Maps users in the newsroom can use the styles to highlight geographic regions for comparing trends or weather warning, geographic political affiliations, medical trends or many other reasons. The nice part about it, the Maps Designer chooses which styles to expose with specific groups of XPression Maps Scenes and the MOS users cannot mix and match styles and maps. The Styles are bound to a specific scene group of maps templates to preserve the branding and design efforts.
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Maps 318 - Using XPression Maps 3.0 Manage Template Tool to Add Location Labels for Newsroom Users in the XPression MOS Maps Workflow

Without labels, maps can be very confusing. With XPression Maps, the Maps Designer can create specific label styles to use in specific situations to follow the branding for the station. The Location Labels can also be shared using the XPression Maps Server, so that XPression MOS newsroom users can supplement the map images with labels to tell their story. Since the label styles are managed, the designer has control of the labels and extends the branding while making the tools available to all users.
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Maps 320 - Using XPression Maps 3.0 manage Template Tool to Add Icons and other Drawing Tools for the Newsroom Users in the XPression Maps MOS Workflow

Sometimes, adding an icon or other artwork to a map helps to more clearly tell the story. Creating a solid set of icons and artwork is easy to do but setting things up for the MOS newsroom user to use can be another story all to itself. Maps Designers can choose and upload icons and other artwork to the XPression Maps Server for the MOS user to access and add to their maps, restricting the opportunities to only artwork approved for use with the map styles in the group they came from. This allows the designer to set the branding style for maps in their station, but also allow the newsroom user the ability to make their own maps to tell their story more clearly,
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Maps 322 - Modification of Shapes Which Represent Boundaries in XPression Maps 3.0

The shape data in XPression Maps might not be 100% accurate base on things like disputed boundaries for geographic regions. Also, the resolution of satellite imagery and the vector-based map shapes might not completely line up. It is now possible to modify XPression Maps 3.0 and higher shapes to match what is thought to be a more accurate representation of the boundaries of a geographic region. These changes can be quickly made as a temporary adjustment or committed to the XPression Maps database.
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Maps 324 - The New Safe Title Markers in XPression Maps 3.0

XPression Maps produces full raster images for video production. However, not every time XPression Maps imagery is used will be a full screen display. Sometimes, XPression Maps output files might get used in an Over-The-Shoulder (OTS) or siderail graphic template and it is difficult for an artist or MOS Newsroom user to know what portion of the map image will fit in the OTS window. XPression Maps now has a non-binding safe title marker set that allows the user in XPression Maps Designer or the XPression Maps MOS workflow to select the safe title marker for the workflow they expect to use the map in. The entire raster still gets used, but the region of interest (inside the safe title marker) should be populated and text or images required should be visible inside the safe title marker.
Confused? Me too. Watch the video for a better explanation…   
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Maps 326 - Using XPression Maps HotSync Folders with Ross Video Streamline Media Asset Management

With the #HighImpact Maps have on the story telling process, maps are becoming a very important part of every newscast. Did you know that it is possible to set up XPression Maps to automatically deliver a copy of every map created with XPression Maps using the XPression MOS workflow, to your Streamline Media Asset Management System?
Now, every map made in the XPression MOS Workflow can be sent to the Streamline MAM system and metadata can also be auto populated with items like the name of the newsroom user who created it, the Map Template Scene used, and even the Safe Title type used. Users can now search Streamline for an existing map, before starting off to make a new one which makes this a #HighEfficiency workflow tool.
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Maps 328 - New Text Handling Tools in XPression Maps 3.2

It is now possible to change the fonts used in labels on your XPression Maps. Using fonts on your computer, you can now change the drawing tools fonts to match your channel’s branding requirements and set your content apart in the market.
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Maps 330 - XPression Maps Drawing Tool Controls Explained

The drawing tools for XPression Maps content has been referred to as a dark art. With this video, we hope to better explain how those tools work and allow users to create more compelling content in their XPression Maps workflows.
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Maps 332 - Using Transparency in XPression Maps 3.2 and higher

Transparency in television news isn’t always about the reporting. Sometimes, it is about the visual presentation. We have had a few requests for allowing transparency in the XPression Maps rendering, so we have added that functionality in XPression Maps 3.2. Here is how to use it!
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Maps 334 - XPression Maps and the New Distance Measurement Tool

Sometimes, it is important to be able to show distance between two points on a map. This could be to define the physical distance between two cities, the distance from the epicenter of a seismic event, or even just the distance from the parking lot to the front gates at Disneyland. Well, now/// we have a tool to allow users to show that measurement.
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