Creating maps in Maestro

- Once you've created your layers,…you can bring them all together…in a single map.…The map will enable you to control things…like coordinate system, labels,…and the display order of your layers.…Let's create a new map now.…Click new resource.…In the new resource dialogue box,…scroll down to the most recent version…of the map.…Map definition in this case is 2.4.…Click add.…For the description of the map,…we'll type in Nanaimo Map.…For the layers, I'm just going to drag in…the road center lines layer into our layers by group.…

Notice when I did that the coordinate system…automatically assigned to the map,…and the initial map view extent…took the extent of the road center lines…and automatically populated it.…Let's pick on the road center lines layer.…You'll notice that there's a name,…road center lines, but a legend label.…Let's change the legend label just to roads.…That's the layer that will be seen…in the map when the users look at it.…Some common properties, expand and legend.…This is very important if you are theming your layer.…