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Data Source: Natural Earth > 1:10m Cultural Vectors > Admin 0 - Countries
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Description
The 'Time Mapper UHD' recognizes two types of countries: 'Standard Countries', as defined in the United Nations list of sovereign states and dependent territories, and 'Amateur Radio Countries', as defined by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) for their 'DXCC' operating awards, and subsequently adopted as ADIF Entities. There are five parts to the criteria that decides what constitutes an 'Amateur Radio Country': Political Entities, Geographical Entities, Special Areas, Ineligible Areas, Deletion Criteria. A full discussion of this can be seen at: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/DXCC%20Rules_no%20links.pdf
Country Ranking
There is never enough room on a world map to show all of the labels, so some form of Ranking must be used to set an order of label preference.
The 'Time Mapper UHD' ranks countries by their population, and shows capital city labels for the larger countries first. As the software includes anti-overlap routines for labels in the same map-layer, this means that labels with a lower rank will not be shown.
A ranking by population may not please everyone, of course, so facility is provided for the User to set his own ranking order. To do this, open the 'Settings Menu' and visit the 'Country Rank' tab-page.
There are two independent lists: one for standard Countries, and the other for Ham Radio Countries. If you wish to change the ranking of a country, just select it in the list, then choose a new position with the 'Ranking' control, then click 'Change Rank to New Value'. You can revert all changes by clicking the 'Restore All Ranks to Default Values' button.
There are 2 overlays available: Standard Countries, Amateur Radio Countries, selectable through the 'Additional Layer Features' control on the 'Layers Menu'.
This Map Layer is a Vector Layer composed of Points and Labels, so the Style for each of these can be changed as desired by opening the 'Layers Menu', clicking the wanted layer on the left, then clicking the relevant panel controls on the right.