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Lab 7 Map Composition

The document provides instructions for creating a map using ERDAS Imagine Map Composer software. It describes the basic steps, which include opening the Map Composer, preparing data layers, drawing the map frame, and adding features like neatlines, tick marks, scale bars, titles, legends, and a north arrow. The exercise outlines 15 specific steps to take a Landsat image and complete a map with a grid, legend, scale bar, and title. The overall purpose is to prepare data for hardcopy map production and printing using the Map Composer interface.

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Lab 7 Map Composition

The document provides instructions for creating a map using ERDAS Imagine Map Composer software. It describes the basic steps, which include opening the Map Composer, preparing data layers, drawing the map frame, and adding features like neatlines, tick marks, scale bars, titles, legends, and a north arrow. The exercise outlines 15 specific steps to take a Landsat image and complete a map with a grid, legend, scale bar, and title. The overall purpose is to prepare data for hardcopy map production and printing using the Map Composer interface.

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LAB 7

MAP COMPOSITION

Objective:
To introduce students to the basic steps in map composition:

 How To Start The Erdas Imagine Map Composer


 How To Prepare The Data Layers For Your Map
 How To Draw The Map Frame, Edit, And Adjust The Size Of The Map Frame
 How To Add Different Features To Your Map Composition (Neatlines, Tick Marks,
Scale Bars, Titles, Legends, And North Arrows)

Data:
Landsat image (Image after accuracy assessment)

Background:
The ERDAS IMAGINE Map Composer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
editor for creating cartographic-quality maps and presentation graphics. Maps can include
single or multiple continuous raster layers, thematic (GIS) layers, vector layers, and
annotation layers.
Map Composer’s extensive annotation capabilities allow you to automatically generate text,
legends, scale bars, grid lines, tick marks, borders, symbols, and more. You can select from
over 16 million colors, multiple line styles, and over 60 text fonts.

Purpose: The Map Composer prepares data for hardcopy map production. This dialog
enables you to view, edit, create, and print map compositions

Exercise:

1. Firstly, click Composer icon and select New Map Composition and click
Close.
2. Then, write the name of the file: change,
Map width: 28
Map height: 29
Units: centimeters

3. After that, click OK button.

4. The window of Map Composer will appear.

5. Then, took the image after accuracy assessment.


6. After that, press button , then make rectangular shape at the windows of Map
Composer. After that, the Map Frame data Source will appear and select Viewer.
Lastly, click at the window image.

7. Window of Map Frame will appear. Change Scale and then click OK. Then, we need
to complete the map with Grid, Legend Scale Bar, Title and others.
8. Click Grid button and click at the image in rectangular shape.

9. Then, click Horizontal Axis and click Copy to Vertical and click Use Full Grid. After
that, click Apply button.

10. Repeat this process and click at Vertical Axis then Copy to Vertical and click Use Full
Grid and then click Apply button.
11. After that, click Legend command. Then, click at the image. In Legend
Properties window, click Class Names and select all the features.

12. Then, click Columns and click Use Multiple Columns: change the number at the
column Entries per Column = 4. Then, click Apply button.
13. After that,
click Scale Bar button and click or select Choose Alignment:
a. Right
b. Meter
c. Maximum Length = 5 centimetres
Click Representation Fraction and then click Apply button.

14. Click button. We need to write down the title of the map. For example “ Map of
Kenyir Lake Land Use Changes 1988 to 2000.
15. Finally, we can see the result.

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