User Guide

Layers List

Associated with the layer lists, there are 2 important controls.

The Visibility Check Box

This controls a layer's visibility - unchecked the layer is OFF.

When checked, the visibility of the specified layer is ON .

There is no need to hit the 'Refresh' button when you change the visibility status of a layer. The map will re-fresh automatically.

The Active Layer Buttons

Directly next to the Visibility Control is this small button, which handles a layer's Active status.

This illustrates the active layer, which is important for tools such as Identify, which is discussed in the Tool section below.

Example

The image below shows the OWNERSHIP layer both Visible and Active

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Tool Bar

To the left is the Toolbar, which is found on the left side of the Map Frame.

Basic Tools

This icon represents the Zoom In action. You can click and drag a rectangle around your area of interest, and the map will zoom to that area.

This is the Zoom Out icon. A single click on the map area will produce the zoom out action.

This 'push pin' icon is for Address Matching. Click this will open up the AddressMatch Dialog below the Map Frame.

Clicking the Set Units icon changes the units of measument between Feet, Miles, Meters and Kilometers. Dependeing on the scale of your measurments, you

This tool allows the user to take general Measurements. It tracks individual segments and a running total of all segments. The measure totals can be cleared with the 'Eraser' tool. Experiment

This is the Eraser icon, it will clear a selected area, clear addressmatch results, clear measurement totals... what ever needs clearing, this tool will accomplish the task.

The FIND Control is base on your ACTIVE layer and can be used to locate a feature with the value you enter into the textbox. Very helpful for locating a Lot or Subdivison in the Parcel layer, or a Street Name in the Street Network layer, a Park Name in the Parks layer. This tool is case sensitive, and most of our data is entered in ALL CAPS!

To Query any Layer, this is the Control. A query will be established based on your ACTIVE layer. This is similar to the Find tool, but allows the user to build a complex query.

This is the Overview Map icon, which toggles the Overview map on the screen. If the Overview map is obscuring the map image, it can be turned off by clicking this tool. A second click will turn it on again.

The Layer List toggles to a Map Legend with this control. The default is always the Layer List, but after you have composed the Map, this tool will allow you to see the complete Map.

Identify tool is to retrieve attributes from an Active layer. For example, you need to know the owner of a specific property that you have already located. Under the LAYER LIST, make the Ownership layer ACTIVE by clicking on the circle next to the layer name (you will be notified of the active layer in the dialog area underneath the map frame). After the proper layer is made active, click on the Identify Tool and click on the feature (in this case a parcel). The information is returned in the dialog area beneath the Map Frame.

The image below shows the result of using the Identify tool on the OWNERSHIP layer.

and The Select tools allow a user to gather attributes (much like identify) from more than on feature at a time. One tool selects based on a user defined 'rectangle' the other allows for selecting based on odd shaped polygons. One reason to use this tool over the Identify tool is that it actually highlights the selected features.

The Hotlink tool will display an image file associated with a particular feature in the Active layer. Currently, the only layer with image data is the Survey Ground Control. Make sure the proper layer is active (for example, Geodetic Control), click the Hotlink tool , and click a control point. A pop-up window will open displaying the image data (a Geodetic Map Sheet in this case). This tool is will not function properly if you have Pop-Up blocking Activated! In all cases of images being subverted by pop-up-blockers I have seen,  the map view resets back to the overall city view every time one tries to print.   Adjusting your settings to allow our server (currently oneview.cabq.gov) to send pop-ups should take care of the problem.

Printing a Map

Printing is accomplished with this icon. This brings up a form in the dialog portion of the screen that allows the user to choose a pagesize and print resolution. The user can also specifiy their own title for the print page.

Screen shot illustrating the printer dialog:

After clicking the "Create Print Page" button, the software composes a page which includes the map image, an overview map and a legend. When this page has been created, it can be submitted to a printer via your browsers 'Print' button.

One of the most common problems that users have printing is the Pop-up blocker killing off
the print page that is created.  In Internet Explorer the blocker defaults to  "ON", as well as many other
software toolbar interfaces  (google & yahoo).

In all cases of printing being subverted by pop-up-blockers I have seen,  the map view resets back to
the overall city view every time one tries to print.   Adjusting your settings to allow our server (currently
vistagrande.cabq.gov) to send pop-ups should take care of the problem.

Saving a Map Image to Your Computer

If you dont not want to actually print a hardcopy of your map image, rather would like to save the image as a jpg or png, you still need to follow the "Create Print Page" process but instead of submitting to a printer, simply 'right click' the map image and 'save as' to your computer. The image can then be opened in common graphic editors or word processing documents.