Microsoft® MapPoint® Colors

Microsoft MapPoint allows drawing and annotation to be placed on a map, by both the user and a program. MapPoint supports a total of forty different colors for this annotation. Although the programming interface appears to support the standard 3 byte (=16777216 different) colors, in reality these numbers merely provide a useful way to specify the color to use. Microsoft MapPoint actually only supports 40 different colors. This reduction ensures that colors really are different, and ensures fast image updates.

The following table lists all 40 colors. Microsoft MapPoint will accept different color designations, but it will use the closest matching color from this list.

WXM Index	Red	Green	Blue	Color
0	0x99	0x33	0x66
1	0xFF	0x99	0xCC
2	0xFF	0x00	0xFF
3	0x80	0x00	0x80
4	0xCC	0x99	0xFF
5	0x00	0x00	0xFF
6	0x00	0x00	0x80
7	0x33	0x33	0x99
8	0x66	0x66	0x99
9	0x33	0x66	0xFF
10	0x00	0x33	0x66
11	0x99	0xCC	0xFF
12	0x00	0xCC	0xFF
13	0x00	0xFF	0xFF
14	0x00	0x80	0x80
15	0x33	0xCC	0xCC
16	0xCC	0xFF	0xFF
17	0x33	0x99	0x66
18	0x00	0xFF	0x00
19	0x00	0x80	0x00
20	0x00	0x33	0x00
21	0xCC	0xFF	0xCC
22	0x99	0xCC	0x00
23	0xFF	0xFF	0x00
24	0x80	0x80	0x00
25	0x33	0x33	0x00
26	0xFF	0xFF	0x99
27	0xFF	0xCC	0x00
28	0xFF	0x99	0x00
29	0xFF	0xCC	0x99
30	0xFF	0x66	0x00
31	0x99	0x33	0x00
32	0xFF	0x00	0x00
33	0x80	0x00	0x00
34	0xFF	0xFF	0xFF
35	0xC0	0xC0	0xC0
36	0x96	0x96	0x96
37	0x80	0x80	0x80
38	0x33	0x33	0x33
39	0x00	0x00	0x00

 

The WXM Index is an internal index used by GridImp (a product of ours which has been withdrawn from sale), and is simply an index into the GridImp color palette.

The individual red, green, and blue components are byte (0..255) values. They are listed here as hexadecimal values for convenience.

 

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