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reports are centred on the base geography, images that do not overlap the

base geography are typically irrelevant. This is therefore the default

option.

If, however, you wish to publish all images referenced by the index file

irrespective of whether they overlap the base geography or not then click

the ‘Use all features’ radio button. If you wish to select a particular subset

of images to publish in the report, click the ‘Use features highlighted in the

table below’ radio button and make your selection.

When you have made your choice, click the ‘OK’ button. Alternatively, click

the ‘Cancel’ button to cancel your selections.

InstantAtlas reports only currently support JPG and PNG as formats

for background mapping. File extensions listed in index files are irrelevant

and are not used by the Publisher – it is important only that the name of the

file (excluding the extension) in the index file matches the name of the JPG

or PNG image it relates to.

At the foot of the screen you are asked whether you wish to copy

background images to the output folder of your report. The output folder is

the folder in which the Publisher saves the published report. By default,

InstantAtlas reports look for background images in their output folder. For

this reason you will typically leave the ‘Yes’ radio button selected

(Figure 42). Note that Publisher will only be able to copy images to the

output folder if it can find these in the same folder as the index file(s) you

have uploaded.

Figure 42

If you have chosen to include a large number of background mapping

images in your report, you might decide to click the ‘No’ radio button. The

images will not be copied to the output folder and after publication you will

have to configure your report to look for images in a different folder. This is

for file management reasons: if you have a large number of background

images, it is not ideal to replicate these in the output folder of every report

you publish. It is more efficient to store the images in one folder and

configure each of your reports to read the images from this folder. To

configure a report to read images from a different folder you must use the

InstantAtlas Designer – please consult section ‘C. The InstantAtlas

Designer’, sub-section ‘C.4.3.6. Map Properties’ for more details.

B.3.5.2. Adding Images from a WMS Connection

The Web Map Server Connection allows you to build in background layers

that come directly from a WMS (Web Map Service) compliant mapping

server. You can find out more about the WMS specification at

http://www.opengeospatial.org.

Although there is no definitive list of available WMS resources, there are a

number of resources on the Web including:

http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/wms_serverlist.html

http://www.geographynetwork.com/explorer/explorer.jsp?goTo=search&ke

yword=wms&type=001