Point Styles

Point styles in Earthlight are formed by defining colours, transparency and size to shape templates.

Edit Point Style window allows you to modify a symbol.

Preview – this window shows the final effect of all changes. This is how the symbol will look on the map.
Image – this is the shape template that is used in the style.
Load – this option allows an upload of custom symbol templates. To load an image, please click on the 'Image:' section.
Clear – removes the shape template and clears the Image window.
Colour mode – this box has two options Normal (ignores your choices to the Override black with and Override white with colours) and Override (applies the chosen colours to the image). Only some of the symbols can have overridden colour – these have to have pure black or pure white colours used in the shape template.
Units – this controls how the symbol will scale with the map. First three choices are screen units dependant. It means that these will not scale with the map and symbols will always be displayed of same size. The last choice – meters – is in ground units what means that it will scale with the map.
Size – this box controls the size of the symbol.

Lets do a short example of creating a Point Selection style.

Start by clicking the Point styles… button and choosing Basic Shapes folder in the next window.
Pick Symbol013 and click Edit… You will be presented with a Edit point style window.
Change the Override black with: to Dark Blue and the opacity to 50% and click Apply.
In the Edit Point Style window click Apply and Save as … on the Point Style Picker and choose a location and name for this symbol.

Following steps taken in this short example should allow you to create or edit all kinds of point symbol.