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Preview Your Map

You can preview your map to see how it looks like within the software, or on your default web browser. You can also keep the map refreshed in preview mode to keep up to the settings you have applied.

Refresh

You can use the Refresh button on the horizontal toolbar to update the map within the editing interface.

Preview your map in the software

  1. Click the Preview Mode button to the top of the editing interface to switch to Preview Mode.

    Preview your map in the software

  2. There are 4 sample layout buttons next to the Preview Mode button. Simply select any of them to simulate how the map looks like when they are placed on your web page. Here are the sample layouts:
    • Normal: Show the map on its own page.
    • Left: Show the map aligned to the left of the page with sample text flowing around.
    • Center: Show the map being wrapped around by sample text to the center of the sample page.
    • Right: Show the map aligned to the right of the page with sample text flowing around.

Preview your map on the browser

You can preview your map on your default web browser by choosing the Preview in Browser button on the horizontal toolbar.

Please be reminded that HTML5 maps works on modern desktop and mobile browsers. You may check with our System Requirements page to see which browsers are supported.

When the map is done ...

If you are satisfied with the preview, you may consider the following options to bring the map to the world.

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