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Key Concepts
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After you create an overlay topology, you can shade or hatch
specific areas by creating a thematic map. For more information,
see “About Thematic Maps” in the online Help.
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You can create reports on your overlay topologies that you can edit
in Microsoft

Excel or Microsoft

Access. You can then paste the
reports into the drawing.
To create an overlay topology
Steps
Use
to look up
1
Create a soils map topology. For more
information, see “Creating Topologies” in this
chapter.
About Topologies
2
Create a parcel map topology. For more
information, see “Creating Topologies” in this
chapter.
3
Create a Map project, and then attach the
drawing(s) that contain the topologies.
Create a Project
4
From the Map menu, choose Topology
➤
Overlay
to display the Overlay Topology dialog box.
MAPOVERLAY