awips2/docs/cave/maps-views-projections.md

# Maps, Views, Projections
## Default Map Scales

The first toolbar menu item is a dropdown menu for different geographic areas and map projections.  The default view is always **CONUS**, which is a North Polar Steregraphic projection centered on the Continental United States.

Default projections and areas available in the menu

   * **CONUS**
   * **N. Hemisphere** (North Polar Stereographic)
   * **Regional** (for the selected localization site)
   * **WFO** (for the selected localization site)
   * **World - Mercator**
   * **World - CED**
   * **World - Mollweide**
   * **GOES East Full Disk** (Geostationary)
   * **GOES West Full Disk** (Geostationary)
   * **Regional** Mercator projections for
     - **Africa**
     - **Alaska**
     - **Antarctica**
     - **Arctic**
     - **Australia,New Zealand**
     - **Europe**
     - **Hawaii**
     - **Japan**
     - **Pacific Ocean**
     - **Puerto Rico**
     - **South America**
   * **WFO** (Has a submenu which contains a map scale for every NWS localization site)

![image](../images/map_scales.png)


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## New Map Editor / View

### Adding a New Map Editor

This can be done in two ways: using the **file menu** and **right clicking** on the tab bar.

Using the file menu, simply go to: **File > New Map**.

This opens a new map editor tab with the default projection (CONUS Polar Stereographic).

![image](../images/fileMenuNewMap.png)

To use the tab bar, **right-click** on or next to any tab and select **New Editor**

![image](../images/rightClickNewMap.gif)

### Renaming Map Editor

Any of the map editor tabs can be renamed.  This can be particularly helpful if you have multiple tabs, with a different focus on each (ie. different geographic reigon, different types of data, etc).

![rename map editor](../images/renameMapEditor.gif)

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## New Projection

A new map projection can be created using the file menu: **File > New Projection**.

![image](../images/createProjection.png)