Beta Help: Adding terrain
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[edit] Adding Terrain
(Edit Map > Terrain Patches > Water | Land)
In many cases, the edges of landmasses are crudely delineated. WikiMapia has a method of refining these edges, available to UL1 and UL2 users (in the Beta version).
One can overwrite the existing water (blue) or land (white) areas seen in Map View with one another using this tool.
To add water (or land) go to the Map Type menu and select Satellite (see note below). Then go to the Edit Map menu and select Water (or Land). The Map View colors will appear as an overlay of the Satellite View. The tool functions like Add Place; draw an outline and click 'Save'. The area within the outline will change color once the page refreshes, and (unlike many other tools) a message will appear stating "Terrain added". You can see it in Map mode." and the tool will close.
Be aware that saving terrain with many points and vertices can take a while, up to 10s of seconds; let it run until you see the message.
Please do not use the Terrain tools on rivers; for that purpose use (Edit Map > Transport > River) or see Rivers edit help.
Note: Edit Map requires that you first select a compatible 'Map Type'. The prompt specifies 'Satellite', but actually, under 'Wikimapia', includes all 3 types, and under 'alternative sources', both 'Google Satellite' and 'Google Panoramio'.
[edit] Notes
[edit] Desert
At the time of this writing (2008-12-13), if you add desert over water it does not show. The workaround is to first add land over the water and then add desert over this land.
