Use Adornments to Decorate your Map.

Adornments are used to decorate your map with legends, titles, directional arrows, logos, and scale bars and other elements to help the reader better understand the message the map is trying to convey. The title helps the reader understand the theme of the map. Legends helps the reader interpret the map, while north arrows, scale lines and scale bars provide geographic orientation.

These adornments are in a fixed position, regardless of panning and can be added to your digital map or carried over to the print map, where you can add additional adornments prior to printing your final map. Map Suite’s extensibility also allows you to extend the AdornmentLayer allowing you to create custom adornments if necessary.

Want to see some of these adornments in action? Check out our Map Suite WebAPI online samples here! For a technical overview visit the Adornments learning sample and overview available under the ThinkGeo Wiki. These adornments are part of the Map Suite core and supported across the entire Map Suite product line.