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+# ATLAS PALETTE
+#
+# Palette section: defines a number of colours
+# consisting of an index and red, green, blue, alpha values
+# Colour 0 will be used as background colour
+Colour 0	0.671 0.737 0.745 1.0 
+Colour 1 	0.647 0.729 0.647 1.0 
+Colour 2	0.859 0.906 0.804 1.0 
+Colour 3	0.753 0.831 0.682 1.0
+Colour 4	0.949 0.933 0.757 1.0 
+Colour 5	0.941 0.871 0.608 1.0 
+Colour 6	0.878 0.725 0.486 1.0 
+Colour 7	0.816 0.616 0.443 1.0 
+Colour 8	0.776 0.529 0.341 1.0 
+Colour 9	0.824 0.863 0.824 1.0 
+Colour 10	0.682 0.573 0.369 1.0 
+Colour 11	0.275 0.275 0.275 1.0 
+Colour 12	0.761 0.839 0.847 1.0 
+Colour 13	0.761 0.839 0.847 1.0 
+Colour 14	0.439 0.271 0.420 1.0 
+Colour 15	0.975 0.982 0.484 1.0 
+Colour 16	1.000 0.000 0.000 1.0
+Colour 17	0.859 0.851 0.478 1.0
+Colour 18	0.800 0.200 0.200 1.0
+Colour 19	0.200 0.800 0.200 1.0
+Colour 20       0.250 0.250 0.250 1.0
+Colour 21       1.000 0.000 0.000 1.0
+#
+# Materials definitions: maps a material name to a Colour index
+# in the palette above. -1 indicates that the material should
+# be Coloured by altitude.
+#
+# The elevation levels are defined by materials with names like
+# "Elevation_x" which mean everything with altitude between x and
+# the next elevation level will be coloured with that index.
+# Elevation levels *must* be sorted from lowest to highest.
+#
+Material Elevation_-1		1
+Material Elevation_100		2
+Material Elevation_200		3
+Material Elevation_500		4
+Material Elevation_1000		5
+Material Elevation_1500		6
+Material Elevation_2000		7
+Material Elevation_3000		8
+Material Elevation_100000	9
+Material AirportKeep		9
+Material Concrete		16
+Material Default		-1
+Material Urban			17
+Material Town			17
+Material Unknown		16
+Material Glacier		-1
+Material Ocean			13
+Material Lake			12
+Material IntermittentLake	12
+Material DryLake		-1 
+Material Reservoir		12
+Material IntermittentReservoir	12 
+Material Stream			12
+Material Marsh			-1
+Material Grass			-1
+Material Cloud			16
+Material BuiltUpCover		15
+Material Road                   20
+Material Freeway                20
+Material Railroad               21
+# These three last are *not optional* and *must* be declared,
+# otherwise Map will crash when drawing runways/navaids
+Material RunwayOutline		14
+Material RunwayFill		9
+Material NavaidLabels		14
+Material VorToLine		18
+Material VorFromLine		19