Quick tour
The exact features in your Web mapping application may vary.
This is a tour of some common features in many applications.
- Start the Web mapping application from the URL you
have been given.
- If you have a wheel mouse, zoom in on the map by
moving the mouse over the map and scrolling the wheel
forward a few times.
- Pan (re-center),
,
the map a few times by clicking and
dragging on the map. The pan function is the default
tool, active when the application starts.
- If the Navigation image
is available, click on a corner of the image
(may have an arrow) to pan (re-center) the map in the
direction of the arrow. Hold down briefly on a corner of the
image to pan more distance. Then pan back in the opposite
direction. Notice the map is already present in areas
you return to. This illustrates the caching functionality of
the application.
- In the Toolbar,
click the Zoom In tool
, then click and drag
on the map to draw a rectangle, and release the mouse button.
The map zooms into the area of the rectangle.
- In the Toolbar,
click the Identify tool
. Then click in the map
on a feature you are interested in. The
Results section of the Toolbar
displays the results where you clicked. If no features were
found the Results will display "No Results." Try again or
click elsewhere to identify.
- Find features by using one of the Tasks in
the Console. Expand
Tasks by clicking the down-arrow on the right side of the Tasks section.
Then if a find or search task is listed, click it and follow the
instructions to find features on the map. Results will be
shown in the Results section, similar
to Identify tool. When you find features, highlight one or more
by clicking their check-boxes in Results. Click the Zoom To icon,
, next to
the record and the map will zoom to the area surrounding the feature you checked.
- Display the Table of Contents
by clicking its down-arrow in the
Console.
The Table of Contents shows the map services and layers in your map. Expand a service (the 1st level)
and its layers' (the 2nd & 3rd levels) in the tree view to show the contents
of the map.
- If enabled, click the check-box next to one or more layers
to turn the layer on or off. The map will update to reflect
the visibility settings in the Table of Contents.
- Explore other content and tools in the map. We hope
you find this Web mapping application useful and fun!