Annotating your map

A map is as good as the story it tells. Annotate your map with elements to highlight specific areas, guide users around the map, or simply prove a point.

Fine-tuning your elements’ styles

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Here’s a full list of styling options:

Styling Option	Description	Element Types
Opacity	Adjust the transparency. For polygons, adjust the opacity of the Fill and Stroke individually.	Routes, Lines, Polygons, Markers, Highlighters and Images
Width	Set the stroke width in pixels	Routes, Lines and Polygons
Stroke style	Choose between a Solid, Dashed or Dotted stroke	Routes, Lines and Polygons
Endcaps	Add Start and End endcaps	Routes
Routing	Switch routing mode between Driving, Cycling, Walking and Flying	Routes
Align	Choose between Left, Center or Right-alignment	Text and notes
Style	Select a Italic, Light, Regular or CAPS text style	Text and notes
Distance	Toggle the distance measurement	Routes and Lines
Radius	Toggle the radius measurement	Circles
Area	Toggle the area measurement	Polygons
Show name	Toggle the label	Pins
Attributes	Add name-value pairs of details, as seen in ‣	Pins, Routes, Lines, Polygons, Markers, Highlighters, Images and Links
Label sizing (zoom-based styling)	To set up zoom-based styling, convert the elements to a layer (Right-click on element > Actions > Convert to Layer)	Pins, Routes, Lines, Polygons, Circles

Resizing and rotating elements

Elements in the workspace can be resized and rotated. Most elements can only be resized by pulling from the corner, but you can change the aspect ratio for notes and images by pulling from the side as well.

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Selecting elements

You can select elements by clicking on them. To select multiple elements at the same time, hold the Shift key and click while dragging.
Use the right-click menu to select elements of same type, color or icon. Very useful for batch-editing!

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Locking elements

Once you’re done creating and fine-tuning your objects, you can lock (🔒) them to make sure they aren’t inadvertently moved or modified.

Locking will prevent making any changes to an object’s style or properties until it’s unlocked. (🔓)

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<aside> ❗ Locking is useful to avoid accidental modifications. Be aware that all users with editing permissions can lock and unlock objects

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