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MAP 455 - Controlling The Level Of Water, Roads, And Road Signs In The XPression Maps HTML5 Client

Sometimes, there can be too much detail in a map, and it can be distracting. Some locations have lots of small bodies of water, which are not really critical to the story you are trying to tell. Maybe too many roads? How about too many highway shields? Well, we gave the Maps Designer in the art department a way to adjust this, so we decided to give it to the newsroom users, too. Watch here and see how to change the level of water, or roads, or road signed you see in your maps.

MAP 456 - Creating XPression Maps Drawing Tools With Flight Mode Enabled

XPression Maps HTML5 users sometimes wish drawing tools only appeared at specific times. Well, now with XPression Maps 4.0, Maps Designers can provide Drawing Tools with something called FLIGHT MODE.Flight mode drawing tools only appear during a pause of an animated map. This means a label might only be visible as the animation fliest to that location, and then fade away when the animation moves on. Watch this video to find out how to add Flight Mode to your drawing tools and empower the newsroom users!

MAP 457 - Importing a 3D Model Into XPression Maps

How cool would it be if you had 3D objects on your maps? Well, watch this video and learn how to import 3D models in XPression Maps 4.0 and higher and bring a whole new dimension to your maps.

MAP 458 - Importing KML Files As Flight Paths In XPression Maps

Airplanes and where they fly frequently make the news. Ever wish you could import a flight path rather than try to draw them yourself? Well, now you can!Watch this video to learn how to use www.flightaware.com to download flight paths of almost any flight as a .KML file and import them into XPression Maps 4.0 and higher. Bonus: you will also learn how to use the line tool to emphasize the flight path for your viewers to see easier. 

MAP 459 - Adding A 3D Model To A Flight Path In XPression Maps

Ok. We showed you how to import a 3D model of a plane, and how to import the flight path as a KML file. Let's put all that together and learn how to use XPression Maps 4.0 to make an animated map of a flight path, including a 3D model of the plane, to show your viewers how the plane got to the point it did. Watch this video about the plane and it's path.

MAP 460 - Using A Shape As A Mask With The Drawing Relation Tool

How many times have you been asked to create a map showing how something affected an area of a state or country? Will now XPression Maps can make that much easier to do.Use the shape of a selected region as a mask and link it to be a mask of a Drawing Tool like an Area, to visualize the impacted area. Wanna learn how? Watch this video.

MAP 461 - Using A Shape As A Mask With The Drawing Relation Tool

Want to atributes or infrastructure within a geographic region on a map? XPression Maps 4.0 enables designers to create maps with any OpenStreetMap layer contained in the shape of the country, state, or region and focus your viewers on the items which matter in this story.We think this is  a powerful tool, so watch our video to get the story behind how to use this feature.

MAP 462 - Multi-Selecting Map Styles In The XPression Maps Maps Styles Manager

We all need to do some housekeeping once and a while. We get it. XPression Maps ships with a bunch of demo content, which might not be what your team wants to have, However, the demo content or even content which becomes irrelivent after a redesign might need to go away. It used to be that you had to select and delete one item at a time. Well, watch this and find out how to select a bunch of items and delete them all at once.

MAP 463 - Moving XPression Maps Drawing Tools To A Different Group

This is more of a refresher course, but if you want to move or copy a Drawing Tool from one group to another, there is a way to do it.This video will show you how to copy or move an existing XPression Maps Drawing Tool asset from one group to another in a few quick short steps.

MAP 465 - What Happens To Map Styles When Changing XPression Maps Satellite Providers

If you had created XPression Maps Map Styles using Microsoft BING! Maps, you need to update your map styles to use Azure or Mapbox. What does that mean to your existing maps styles and your station's look and feel?We have taken a few minutes to create a video which shows users how this change impacts their map styles and how to update them to marginalize the changeover.