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About the Map Tab

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Use the Map tab to select display preferences for items in your Map view. ProductName will save the preferences as defaults for this project.

This tab has the following sections you can use to set your Map view preferences:

Map Scale

Type a number in this box to set as the default map scale for your project. The scale will use the unit you set in the Project Preferences dialog box.

Smooth Posted Surface

Select or clear the check box for the smoothing option you want to set for your posted horizon, grid, or time slice.

Depths Shown in Map Window

Select an option from this section to set how depths are shown on your map. Learn more.

2D Seismic Line Display

Use this section to set how 2D seismic lines display in your map. You have the following choices:

• Post 2D integer locations only
• 2D Location Symbol Frequency
• 2D Value Symbol Frequency

Consistency Slice

Use this section to set default parameters for posting consistency slices to your map. Follow these steps:

1. In the Time Window field, type the time window in milliseconds.
2. In the Neighboring Bin field, select the number of neighboring bins.
3. In the Mode field, select a statistical measure from the list.

Well Label Display

Select either Short Name to display your well's short name, or select Long Name to display your well's UWI on your map.

Well Value Display On

Select an option to set the posting location for well top attributes. You have the following options:

• Top Hole - Select to post tops attributes at the surface hole location for deviated wells without a directional survey in your map display.
• Bottom Hole - Select to post tops attributes at the bottom hole location for deviated wells without a directional survey in your map display.

Display Option

Select a check box for the general display option(s) you want to set for your Map window. You have the following options:

• Color Bar - Select to display the color palette in your Map view.
• Scroll Bar - Select to display the scroll bar in your Map view.
• Auto Insert Synthetics - Select to have ProductName display synthetics in your seismic.
• All Horizons Contact Points - Select to display the contact wedge symbol at all contact points.

Symbol of Slice Intersections

Select the Black Color check box to display a symbol at every slice intersection on your map. You can change the size of the symbol by typing a new value in the Size field.

GeoTIFF Transparency

Use this section to make the background of your GeoTIFF map image transparent in order to make it easier to see pertinent information. Select a color option for the transparency. You have the following options:

• Use Alpha Band - If your GeoTIFF file includes an alpha band, select this option to have the alpha band define the transparency.
• Use fixed RGB value - Select this option to define a fixed RBG color value for the transparency. In the R, G, and B boxes below, type the numbers to define the RGB color.

Create Contour

Click <Edit> in this section to open the Contour Default Attributes dialog box. From this dialog box, you can set the default contouring options for your map.

What do you want to do?

• Learn about the map preferences dialog box
• Set draw order preferences
• Set map annotation preferences
• Set map symbol preferences
• Learn about contouring preferences