WebGIS Help

Map Viewer

Toolbar

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Map Viewer

WebGIS Viewer Interface consists of the left panel, the center map panel and the right panel. All panels are expandable, collapsible and width-resizable.

1) There are three collapsible elements of the Left panel: Maps, Layers and Bookmarks.

Left Panel: Map Groups, Maps and Layers

2) The center Map panel has a top Toolbar, the actual map and the bottom status bar. The map can be panned and zoomed.

The status bar displays:

3) The Right panel can be expanded to show layers legend icons.


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Toolbar

The Toolbar has the scale setter and a number of icons. When hovering over each icon the actual action description is shown:

Toolbar Icons

(1) Get Feature Information. Toggle this as active and then left-click on a geometry to show Feature attributes values.

(2) Pan Map (drag). Default mode when toggled active.

(3) Zoomed In Area. Hold and drag to create a rectangle to Zoom In.

(4) Zoomed Out Area. Hold and drag to create a rectangle to Zoom Out.

(5) Zoom to full extent.

(6) Enter coordinates to go to location on map. Input coordinates in the form of Easting and Northing (in metres).

(7) Zoom previous.

(8) Zoom next.

(9) Measure Distance. The results of measuring distance are shown on the status bar.

(10) Measure Area. The results of measuring area are shown on the status bar.

(11) Add Bookmark.

(12) Gazetteer (Address) Search.

(13) Spatial Searches. First, select the layer the search will be performed on.

(14) Printing to PDF Dialogue.

(15) This Help.


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WebGIS Client Application build 1.0.4191

Credits:
Based on Heron Mapping Client.
Powered by OpenLayers, GeoExt, ExtJs and Proj4js.