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Grid | means: | The map will be drawn with a graticule. |
Tropics | means: | The map will be drawn with the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Note: Tropics will only be drawn if there is a grid ( ) drawn too. |
Tissot Indicatrices | means: | The map will be drawn with ellipses of distortion (the so-called Tissot's Indicatrices) area-wide. |
Continents | means: | The map will be drawn with continents. |
Cities | means: | The map will be drawn with an assortment of important cities. |
Wreck Locations | means: | The map will be drawn with locations of sunken ships. |
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Colors | It is possible to allocate varying colors to the different drawing elements of the map (gridlines, Null-lines, oceans, resp.). Tip: Please use the high-color setting (65.536 colors) of your graphics card. |
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Grid Density ... | By selecting this item you are able to vary the distance between the drawn Latitudes and those between the drawn Longitudes of the map in the active window. |
Move | By selecting this item the map in the active window can be moved without changing scale. To do this you need to click the mouse button at the position where you want to make to new map center. |
Cut | By marking a rectangle with the mouse you are able to define a clipping region which will be displayed in a larger scale. |
Zoom ... | Varying the scale while retaining the map center. |
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