https://communities.bentley.com/products/geospatial/desktop/f/bentley-map-forum/99601/symbolizing-gis-dataHello all, The reason for this thread is to try to understand the various ways choose and save symbols for known data types. In my situation, I receive several shapefiles of a standard schema. I&#39;d like to apply symbology to these shapefiles to sometimesen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/294186?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:54:07 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:770f6299-ba7e-4e47-b06d-04ccba86cf56Dan Weston<p>Joel,</p> <p>The &#39;best&#39; way to apply symbology to GIS data using Bentley Map is to start with a geospatial schema defined with the Geospatial Administrator (GSA).&nbsp; This provides Property-based symbology for each feature and sub-feature listed in the schema.&nbsp; When you import a Shapefile the incoming feature can be &#39;mapped&#39; to a feature name from the schema and be symbolized based on pre-defined&nbsp;styles and properties.&nbsp; The import settings can be saved and reused by defining an import settings file (.impx)&nbsp;during the import process.&nbsp; The Help file illustrates these commands under the Bentley Geospatial Administrator and Interoperability headings.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>