Map display settings: style, labels and terrain

This section describes the settings for the display of the maps in map.army.

Overview

Here you have the option of defining the graphic display.

General map settings

Map Type

'Map Type' in the Map Settings group of the map.army Options panel

Chooses the map drawn underneath your symbols. map.army ships 18 of them from 8 providers, plus a None entry that leaves the background blank — general-purpose maps, satellite imagery, OpenStreetMap and OpenTopoMap, and the official survey maps of six countries.

The full list, what each one is good for, and which may be republished is on its own page: Base maps. Changing it takes effect immediately and never moves your symbols.

Some base maps are published in several variants. When you pick one of those, a second, unlabelled dropdown appears directly beneath Map Type offering the variants, with an Automatic entry that picks one for the zoom you are at. Today the Swiss National Map is the only one that offers this, where the variants are swisstopo’s printed scales — see Base maps.

Hint: The base maps do not expose a global “hide labels” toggle. Place-name labels are baked into the base-map tile rendering and cannot be turned off independently. If you need a label-light background — for printing or for a clean overlay — OpenTopoMap is the cleanest choice (no POI markers and fewer place names than Google or OSM). For a fully neutral background, you can additionally lay an image layer over the base map — see Layers → Import Overlays — Image Layers.

Brightness

This setting defines the brightness of the map. It goes from -100 (black) to +100 (white). The default is 0.

Hue

In the case of coloured maps, the hue can be changed between 0 and 360. The default is 0.

Chroma

Shows the maps in gradations between coloured (100%) and greyscale (0%). The default is 100%.

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