Map Tool Bar

The map tool bar provides a number of tools to help you manipulate your map and get information.

Imagery on/off

Lets you turn aerial photography on or off. By default, imagery is off. Please note:

• Turning imagery on or off will only apply to the active tab. As you switch tabs, you'll need to use this tool again to make changes to the current map.
• When you return to a tab, the imagery will return to the same state as it was when you last accessed that tab.
• Only certain map tabs contain imagery.  This tool will not be displayed for map tabs to do not contain imagery.

Full view

Zooms out to a maps at the full view of map extents.

Zoom in/out

Zooms in (+) or out (-) of the current map. To zoom in or out:

1. Click the appropriate zoom tool.
2. Click anywhere in the map panel, or click and hold down the mouse button, while drawing a box around the area you would like to zoom.

The scale tool bar provides advanced zoom options.

Pan tool

Lets you drag and drop to move the map in any direction. To pan:

1. Click the pan tool.
2. Move the cursor over the map panel and hold down the mouse button.
3. Move the cursor to drag the map
4. Release the mouse button.

You can also move the map using the arrows surrounding the map panel., or moving around in the Overview Map.

Information tool

Lets you access additional information about a specific point on the current map. To browse more information, click the information tool and then click on a point on the map.

A window will appear with a variety of information categories. To switch categories, select an option from the drop down menu provided. Please note that each map tab provides different information categories for the same point. For additional categories, switch tabs and try again.If you see a plus sign, click on it to see if there is extended data available from other datasets or databases.  At the bottom of the identify window you may also see hyperlinks to other external data.

You must have pop-up windows enabled to view more information.

Clear selections

Clears selections and points plotted on the current map.

Previous map

Returns to the previous map view.  Zoom history is available to allow multiple previous views.

Print map

Generates a printer-friendly version of the current map view. Once you click this tool, you can select landscape or portrait orientation, print quality, a title, subtitle and additional comments.

To generate a printer-friendly map, click the "print preview" button. A new window will appear with a ready-to-print map.  Print the map by using your web browser's print command.  You must have pop-up windows enabled to print maps.

Mail map

Lets you e-mail the current map view as an image file. To mail a map:

1. Click the mail tool
2. Enter the recipient's name and e-mail address
3. Enter an e-mail subject line in the box titled "subject"
4. Enter a message to be sent with the e-mail (optional)
5. Enter your name and e-mail address in the sender section.
6. Click the "send e-mail" button.

You'll get a message indicating that the map has been sent. To exit this tool, click the "close" button.

Legend

Displays a map legend. As you zoom in and out of the map, new layers will become visible. Use the legend tool again to display an updated legend.  Each map tab has a different legend.

Overview map

Opens a new window displaying thumbnail map of Newmarket. The red box represents the position of the current map displayed in the map panel.   You can pan the map clicking on a desired location on the overview map.

Measure tool

Measures any area or distance in Newmarket. To measure:

1. Click the measure tool. This will open the measure tools panel under "Map Tools"
2. Select a measure type (measure area or measure length)
3. Select the unit of measure (default is feet)
4. Click on the map to add measurement points.

The measure tools panel will automatically display measurements as you add points to the map. To remove the points you've added, click the "clear" button.

To stop measuring or to use another tool, click the "done" button.

 Add my Point

Allows user to add the own graphic point to the map.  This point is only temporary, and it will be removed when the user exits the current map session.  To place your own point:

1. Click the add my point tool.  This will open the panel under map tools.
2. Select the desired font from the available font types.
3. Add desired label for the point.
4. Click on the map where you want to place your point.

Remember this point is only a temporary graphical point.  It is not saved anywhere.  When you exit the map or clear selections, it will be removed from the map.

 Selections

Allows the user to make manual selections by clicking on the map where needed to select desired features.  The make selections:

1. Click on the selections tool.  This will open a panel under map tools.
2. Choose the desired selection method and hit the continue button.
3. Use the combo box to select the layer that you want to select from and hit the continue button.
4. Click check box if you want to add to current selections.
5. Click on features you want to select.  If using the point method, click once on map for each feature you want to select.  if using the line method keep clicking on map until the line pass through the features you wan to select.
6. Once you have finished selecting the desired features, hit the submit button to finish.  You can clear your selection prior to finishing by hitting the clear last point button.

Your selections will be available in the selections box.