# Edit MapShapes **URL:** \ **Category:** WinForms\ **Created:** [April 23, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/edit-mapshapes/1188 "2010-04-23T19:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ryan1](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@Ryan1](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Ryan1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/edit-mapshapes/1188/1 "2010-04-23T19:16:39Z")
Greetings, I am looking at how I can do the following: I basically have a layer that contains MapShapes as described in the code community project.  I want to enable the user to put the map in "Edit Mode" which will place ALL of the mapshapes in the EditInteractiveLayer, however I want them to all still be displayed with their individual styles.  I looked at writing my own EditShapesLayer on the EditInteractiveOverlay to handle this, however that layer is read-only and cannot be set. Any advice on how I can accomplish this would be appreciated.   Thanks for your help and time, .Ryan. ---
**Author:** ![Val](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@Val](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Val)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/edit-mapshapes/1188/2 "2010-04-27T16:12:03Z")
We have a number of projects in the Code Community that deals with setting Styles for EditInteractiveOverlay. For example, I would recommend taking a look at: -Dragged Point Style [code.thinkgeo.com/projects/s...pointstyle](http://code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/draggedpointstyle) -Dragged PointStyle with Label [code.thinkgeo.com/projects/s...stylelabel](http://code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/dragpointstylelabel) -Dragging Icon [code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/draggingicon](http://code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/draggingicon) -Snapping to Vertex [code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/snappingtovertex](http://code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/snappingtovertex)