Getting Started
The Web Mapping Application enables you to explore a map and find information useful
to you.
How it works
The Web Mapping Application page has three main parts:
- Along the top, a menu with links to the Help and other websites, plus the
Toolbar for interacting with the map.
- Map
- Console, on the left side of the page, allows interaction
with the map and provides, information about the map.
- Tasks enable you to find and interact with data. Available tasks may include,
depending on the application:
- Tabular Results
- Map Contents
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Selecting an Active Layer
The Acitve Layer can be changed by using the Active Layer drop-down box to
the right of the toolbar. The active layer determines which map layer the Selection
tools (see toolbar) operate on. Whenever a
layer is selected as the Active Layer it will automatically be turned on in the
map contents window (see Working with layers and map contents).
By default, the active layer is Parcels.
Working with the Console
You can hide and then show the Console as needed. Clck the gray arrow
just to the left of the map to hide the Console. Click the arrow (which now points
to the right) again to show the Console.
You can resize the area used by the Console by clicking and dragging the divider
between the Console and the Map. This allows more room to view either area as you
work.
You can expand and collapse sections as needed. Click the down arrow to expand a
Console section:
Click the up arrow in the title of a seciton to collapse it to its title bar:
The content of the section is hidden but not deleted. Expand the section to see
the content again.
Console sections can be resized in height. To resize a section height, move the
cursor to the bottom of the task section, until the up-down arrow appears. Click
and hold the left mouse button, and drag the section up or down to resize.
Working with moveable elements
Some elements, such as the Measure window or
Search Tasks, may be moved around the page, collapsed and closed. You can
arrange these elements to suit your own work.
To move elements, click the double-right-arrow to undock the element from the console
(a double-left-arrow will appear for re-docking). Once undocked click and
hold with the left mouse button on the title bar of the element. As you hover over
the element's title bar, the cursor changes to a four-way arrow, indicating you
can move it by clicking and dragging.
Drag the element to the position you want, then release the mouse button.
If you accidentally move an element outside the visible window, you may move it
back by using the browser's scrollbars to scroll the window until the element is
visible, then drag it back to the main area of the window.
To collapse the element, click the up arrow in its upper right corner. The element
window collapses to its title bar. To restore it to normal view, click its down-arrow.
Resizing moveable elements
Mosst element windows can be resized to show more or less area. To resize, move
the mouse over the right or bottom edge of the element window until you see the
cursor change to a double arrow. Hold the mouse down and drag the window edge to
resize it, then release.
