Guide to
Creating Interactive Maps
Significant
seasonal maps and information for the month of January.
The HTML
Viewer interface consists of a map display area, title, toolbar, layer
list, scale bar, North arrow, and overview map.
The toolbar
appears to the left of the map display area. It includes all of the
tools you selected when designing your Web site as well as two buttons
unique to the HTML Viewer: Toggle between Legend and LayerList, and
Toggle Overview Map. Toggling the overview map adds or removes it from
the top left corner of the map display area. Use the Toggle between
Legend and LayerList button to switch between the layer list with
active layer and visibility options and the legend with symbology.
The layer
list appears to the right of the map display area. Click Active to make
a layer active. The active layer is the layer against which querying,
buffering, and so on will be performed.
Check a layer
to make it visible; uncheck it to remove it from the map display. After
making changes, you must click the Refresh Map button for your changes
to be reflected on the map.
The HTML
Viewer toolbar
The HTML
Viewer toolbar appears to the left of the map display area. It includes
all of the tools you selected when designing your Web site as well as
two buttons unique to the HTML Viewer: Toggle between Legend and
LayerList, and Toggle Overview Map.
 Toggle
between Legend and LayerList:
Switches back and forth between a legend with symbology and a layer
list with visibility options.
Toggle
Overview Map:
Adds or removes the overview map from the map display area.
Zoom
In: Zooms in to the area of
the map that you click or drag a box around.
Zoom Out:
Zooms out from the area of the map that you click or drag a box around.
Zoom
to Full Extent:
Zooms to the full extent of the map.
Zoom
to Active Layer:
Zooms to the full extent of the active layer.
Back
to Last Extent:
Zooms to the previous extent.
Pan:
Pans the display in the direction that you drag the mouse pointer.
Pan
to North, Pan to South, Pan to East, Pan to West:
Pans the map in one direction—north,
south, east, or west.
Identify:
Displays attribute information for the feature that you clicked.
Query:
Searches for features based on a query expression.
Search:
Searches for features based on the information you enter.
Find:
Finds map features with an attribute value matching a string that you
type.
Measure:
Measures distances on the map.
Set
Units:
Sets the units for the Measure tool.
Buffer:
Selects the features of one layer that are within the specified buffer
distance of selected features of another layer.
Select
by Rectangle:
Selects the group of features contained by or in contact with a
rectangle you draw on the map.
Select
by Line/Polygon:
Selects the group of features contained by or in contact with a line or
polygon you draw on the map.
Clear
Selection:
Clears the selected set of features.
Locate
Address:
Locates a street address on the map.
Print:
Prints the map to your default printer
Zooming and
panning the map display area in the HTML Viewer
The zoom and
pan tools allow you to change the map extent.
Zoom in or
out by clicking the center of the area to zoom in to or out from, or by
clicking and dragging a box around it.
Zoom to the
full extent of the map, the extent of the active layer, or the last
extent by clicking the appropriate button on the toolbar. See HTML Viewer toolbar
for more information.
Pan the map
by clicking the map and dragging it, or by clicking one of the
unidirectional pan buttons: Pan to North, Pan to South, Pan to East,
and Pan to West.
Zooming in
and out
1.
Click Zoom In or Zoom Out on the toolbar.
2.
Move the mouse pointer to the desired location on the map, then click
and drag a box around it.
3.
Release the mouse button.
The map display zooms in to or out from the selected area.
Panning the
map display
1.
Click Pan on the toolbar.
2.
Click the map and drag the mouse in the direction you want to pan.
To see more to the left, click and drag the map to the right.
To see more to the right, click and drag the map to the left.
To see more at the top, click and drag the map downward.
To see more at the bottom, click and drag the map upward.
3.
Release the mouse button.
The map display refreshes.
Tip
Refreshing
your browser
Keep in mind that using the browser's Refresh button reloads the Web
page, causing you to lose any changes to your map such as zooms to the
extent or new symbols to a layer.
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