USING THE RASTER CONFIGURATOR

Warning: incorrect use of this tool may render the NATMAP Raster Viewer inoperative. Please spend time reading and understanding these instructions before making modifications to the default configuration.

NATMAP Raster Viewer can view maps and layers located in different places - on different CDs, on your computer's hard drive, or on a shared computer through a network. When you install the NATMAP Raster software, the Viewer will only search for maps in one of the above locations (which one depends upon from where you ran the Setup program and whether you have installed the Viewer from the Mapsheets or Mosaic products).

The Configurator is a tool that helps you manage where your maps and layers are located, and tells the Viewer where to look for maps to load. This is especially useful when you have moved the location of your maps (for example copying some maps from the CD to your hard drive).

You can use the Configurator to:

• search for maps in more than one location
• add search paths for new layers
• change a search path for a layer

The viewer searches for a required map data file in the order and location specified by each element of the search path until the required map data file is found or the search path is exhausted. The default configuration provides only one element in the search path. Hence, map data can only be found in one location. Adding a new element to the search path for a particular map series will configure the viewer to look in two or more locations. The configurator provides the ability view, change, add, re-order and delete map search paths for each map series, and for each release version of the viewer software.

Administrators of computer networks or XP machines should read this important notice on using the Configurator over a computer network with restricted administrative privileges for users.

I've changed the location of my maps, or added a new location, using the Configurator. The changes don't appear in the Viewer.

If you make changes in the Configurator, make sure you have closed the Viewer so that changes will update properly. As the Viewer runs in an Internet Explorer window, any changes you make to map layers will not be refreshed in the window. The Viewer needs to be closed and restarted for changes to be activated.

Check that you have selected the correct folder.

Running Raster Viewer Configurator

The NATMAP RASTER VIEWER Configurator is automatically installed when you install the NATMAP RASTER VIEWER.

You can run the Configurator from the Start menu by selecting Programs > NATMAP RASTER VIEWER > Raster Viewer Configurator. Or, using Windows Explorer, you can double click on the RasterViewerConfigurator.exe file located in the Tools directory of the path to which NATMAP RASTER VIEWER was installed.

The Raster Viewer Configurator program will start and you will be presented with the main window:

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• Adding a search path for a map layer
• Removing a search path for a map layer
• Modifying a search path