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Wrapping Up
Providing different layers of information is an effective way to stack your map with as much
data as possible, but you must have a strategy for portraying the information on your map that
will make the data as visible as possible. In this chapter, different icons were used to display the
different types of information, but there are other methods for displaying that information,
such as using overlays, numbered icons, or third-party extensions.The application in this chapter also demonstrated the importance of objects for storing infor-
mation about markers on the map. By building some intelligence into the markers and objects,
manipulating and displaying the information onscreen becomes much easier.The next chapter expands on the icon-based flexibility shown here by using a different method
for overlaying information on the map that is more practical when you want the marker to be
more flexible and explicit than a simple, predetermined icon.