If you were worried about what happens if your XPression Maps Server needs a service window, or you want to add more concurrent newsroom users to your system, we can support that. Watch this video and learn how it’s done.

Concerned about who is accessing your XPression Maps Server in the newsroom or how many slots you have available for newsroom users? Want to see who is working on creating Maps in the Newsroom? Well, there is now a way for the XPression Maps Administrator to view all that information.

Shortcuts are awesome. XPression FX workflows get even easier when you use Global Macros to speed up your work because they are simply shorthand for the names of commonly used terms. Once you watch this video your life will seem much less complicated. 

We have added a way for the XPression FX operators to export (and import) a collection of Video assets from the Clip Browser. CNTL+CLICK on the desired assets, then RIGHT-CLICK on one of them to select the type of EXPORT you need. Watch, we’ll show you!

You’re not afraid of the dark, are you?Because XPression Maps 4.0 introduces a new dark mode for the user interface. Change from the classic look of XPression Maps and the light gray UI to the new dark UI with all the fancy new icons. Stop tanning by the light of the bright UI and relax in the more subdued look and feel of XPression Maps 4.0 and Dark Mode. Watch and find out how you can come to the dark side…

XPression Maps 4.0 introduced Ross Platform Manager (RPM) to the map making community. One of the cool things is that a single Product Key (a fancy name for a string of text) can hold the licensing for multiple XPression Maps systems. Watch this video and learn how you might have all your XPression Maps systems licensed with one RPM Product Key.

Ross Video is proud to release XPression Maps 4.0. Packed with new features, the latest release of XPression Maps is focused on improving workflow for designers,newsroom users, and on-camera presenters. Take a look at this quick overview of the XPression Maps Designer and XPression Maps Server enhancements for your daily mapping tasks.

Microsoft  announced an end of service for BING! Maps Developer, so XPression Maps had to adopt Microsoft Azuer Maps as a search and tile imagery provider. While we were add it, we added support for Mapbox for their search engine and tile imagery. Both of the providers are part of XPression Maps 4.0. Watch this video to learn how to integrate them into your XPression Maps configuration.

Ross Video is is working hard to centralize licensing our software and hardware. To do so, we have developed Ross Platform Manager (aka RPM)across the company as a way to provide software-based licensing in the form of Product Keys. XPression Maps is no exception. This video provides a general introduction to RPM and how to use it with XPression. Keep an eye out for more in-depth videos on how to use RPM with XPression Maps systems in the future.

Sometimes, there can be too much detail in a map, and it can be distracting. Some locations have lots of small bodies of water, which are not really critical to the story you are trying to tell. Maybe too many roads? How about too many highway shields or road signs?Well, XPression Maps 4.0 introduces a new feature which allows map designers to control the level of those features. You are going to want to watch this video to learn how...

OpenStreetMap provides a great level of detail to XPression Maps. Now, you can see the OSM content on your canvas by category and name in the OSM Overview Panel. Users in both XPression Maps Designer and the HTML5 client can also filter the results to a specific text string, if it helps to find what you are looking for.XPression Maps Designer can expand the OSM Overview to show more results than what is visible on the canvas. Wanna see how? Watch the video.

XPression Maps 4.0 introduces some new tools in the user interface. In this video we are showing off the Drawings Overview Panel, which gives users the ability to see all the Drawing Tools added to a map and a way to select them, rename them, and even turn visibility of them on and off. This is a great tool for finding items on your map scenes and selecting them from one place.

Microsoft Azure Maps for Enterprise and Mapbox are both metered service providers with a monthly allowance of free access to the system. By our calculations, XPression Maps users should be below the free threshold per month on either service. However, we have added tools on the XPression Maps 4.0 Preferences panel for users to monitor their usage in a range of durations including a custom date range which can de defined by the user. Want to learn how? Watch the video!

If you had created XPression Maps Map Styles using Microsoft BING! Maps, you need to update your map styles to use Azure or Mapbox. What does that mean to your existing maps styles and your station's look and feel?We have taken a few minutes to create a video which shows users how this change impacts their map styles and how to update them to marginalize the changeover.

This is more of a refresher course, but if you want to move or copy a Drawing Tool from one group to another, there is a way to do it.This video will show you how to copy or move an existing XPression Maps Drawing Tool asset from one group to another in a few quick short steps.

We all need to do some housekeeping once and a while. We get it. XPression Maps ships with a bunch of demo content, which might not be what your team wants to have, However, the demo content or even content which becomes irrelivent after a redesign might need to go away. It used to be that you had to select and delete one item at a time. Well, watch this and find out how to select a bunch of items and delete them all at once.

Want to atributes or infrastructure within a geographic region on a map? XPression Maps 4.0 enables designers to create maps with any OpenStreetMap layer contained in the shape of the country, state, or region and focus your viewers on the items which matter in this story.We think this is  a powerful tool, so watch our video to get the story behind how to use this feature.

How many times have you been asked to create a map showing how something affected an area of a state or country? Will now XPression Maps can make that much easier to do.Use the shape of a selected region as a mask and link it to be a mask of a Drawing Tool like an Area, to visualize the impacted area. Wanna learn how? Watch this video.

Ok. We showed you how to import a 3D model of a plane, and how to import the flight path as a KML file. Let's put all that together and learn how to use XPression Maps 4.0 to make an animated map of a flight path, including a 3D model of the plane, to show your viewers how the plane got to the point it did. Watch this video about the plane and it's path.

Airplanes and where they fly frequently make the news. Ever wish you could import a flight path rather than try to draw them yourself? Well, now you can!Watch this video to learn how to use www.flightaware.com to download flight paths of almost any flight as a .KML file and import them into XPression Maps 4.0 and higher. Bonus: you will also learn how to use the line tool to emphasize the flight path for your viewers to see easier.