When you have a completed map, it can be saved to a MapViewer [. GSM] file. [.GSM] files preserve the entire map with all the map features. Then, when you want to retrieve the file, you can use the File | Open command.
To open a [.GSM] file:
1. Choose the File | Open command.
2. In the Open dialog, switch to the MapViewer Samples folder. Click on HatchMap.gsm.
3. Click the Open button and HatchMap.gsm is opened in another plot window. This is a hatch map of France showing population by region, similar to the map you created earlier in this tutorial.
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