Map Appearance

How a tour is painted in the map can be defined in this preference page.
map appearance

Tour Properties

Plot tour with: Lines / Dots / Squares
 Defines the symbol for a tour track point
Symbol width/size Size or width for the plotted symbol
Plot symbol with border
 Draws a border with the same color but with less brightness
Border width Width of the border. It looks very special when the border is very wide and the symbol width is small.

 

Tour Painting Method

Basic (faster)
  • this method has the best performance to paint a tour but the painted tour and markers are clipped at the tile border
Enhanced (more beautiful)
  • this method paints the tour without clipping at the tile border
  • native image data are cached to optimize performance but uses a lot of memory
  • it is recommended to add the following parameters to the command line when starting the application to prevent an out of memory error (more details are documented here)
    -vmargs -Xms128m -Xmx768m

  • performance is up to 5x faster on Windows compared with Linux because some image operations on Linux are 30x slower (org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image.<init>(Device, ImageData))

 

Other Properties

Dimming color Defines the color which is used as background color when the map is dimmed