Creating raster layers

- Raster layers, such as air photographs,…satellite images, and scanned drawings can be created…to give your maps a lot of context.…In Maestro, we use the GDOT provider data source…to create raster layers.…Let's do that now.…Under Layers, let's pick New Resource.…Choose the Raster Layer Definition and click Add.…For resource, under Data Connections, pick the AIR_PHOTOS.…Click OK.…Click Upgrade.…You'll notice the Feature Source…points to the Air Photos Feature Source,…the Feature Class is set to…default values of Default and Raster.…

The visibility, or scale range, says from zero to infinity.…Let's change this to 20,000.…Let's click Preview.…We can zoom in and see more detail.…Let's close the map preview.…The Rebuild Raster after zoom factor of one means that…it will rebuild the raster or query the server…for more data each time you zoom in.…By changing the rebuild, you can speed up your raster…but you will decrease the resolution until you zoom in more.…

The Two-Tone Image Color settings is purely…for scanned drawings that only have two colors, or bi-tonal.…