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About the map document

StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS Asia Pacific 2019 Release 1 map document (AsiaPacific.mxd) table of contents is organized into group layers by scale range. Each group layer contains thematic group layers, such as Places, Roads, Boundaries, Hydrology, Landmarks, and so on. Typically there are three or four scale-dependent datasets within each thematic group layer, for example, at Above 25m scale, Hydrology includes Water Polygons and Ocean, whereas at 50–25k scale, Hydrology includes Water Lines, Water Polygons, and Ocean. These layers include feature density, level of generalization, symbolization, and labeling.

This scale-dependent approach to layer organization allows all the layers of the same scale range to be contained within a single group layer. The thematic group layers can be easily expanded to show the various datasets available at that scale. This permits an entire group layer or a thematic group within that group layer to be turned on or off with a single click. The layers within a thematic group can also be individually turned on and off. For example, you can turn off the entire 2.5k–0 scale group layer, just turn off the entire Points of Interest thematic group layer, or just turn off the Parks and Recreation layer in the Points of Interest thematic group layer.

Dynamic label placement is used throughout the entire AsiaPacific.mxd. The labeling is scale dependent and based on size or importance. For some layers, label classes have been defined but are not turned on.