[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Documentation

[CoFIS Web]

Dear all,
I wrote some documentation for my site on how to use the GeoMoose 
interface. I think there was a similar page in the 1.x versions.

You can view it at http://www.cofis.info/cms/index.php/help.html and - 
if interested - use the body html code in the attached text file 
(exported from CMS-made-simple).

Off course, you would need to change paths and CSS settings to fit your 
site ...

Hope that´s for help to anybody.

Nils


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<h4>Getting started</h4>
<p>The CoFIS Web Mapping Application enables you to explore a map and find information useful to you. To ease getting started with its functionality, we have divided the help topics into <strong>seven major parts identified by A to G</strong>:</p>
<table style="width: 100%; margin-bottom: 15px;" border="0" cellspacing="10" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width: 2%;"><strong>A</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22%;">Toolbar</td>
<td style="width: 2%;"><strong>D</strong></td>
<td style="width: 31%;">Zoom to predefined map areas</td>
<td style="width: 2%;"><strong>G</strong></td>
<td style="width: 31%;">Zoom slider and map panning<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>B</strong></td>
<td>Layer catalog</td>
<td><strong>E</strong></td>
<td>Zoom to predefined map areas</td>
<td></td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>C</strong></td>
<td>Overview map</td>
<td><strong>F</strong></td>
<td>Courser ground coordinates</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<img class="Image_center" title="Screenshot of CoFIS web mapping application" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/screenshot_full_700_comment.jpg" alt="Screenshot of CoFIS web mapping application" width="700" height="481" />
<h4>A - Toolbar</h4>
<p>The toolbar enables you to interact with the map. To activate the functions, click first on the respective button. The following tasks available:</p>
<table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="10" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width: 105px;">Previous extent<br /></td>
<td><img title="Previous extent button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/previous.png" alt="Previous extent" width="16" height="16" /></td>
<td><strong>Click</strong> to make the map return to the map extent displayed previously. Similar to your web browser's "Back" button, but specifically for the map.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forward extent<br /></td>
<td><img title="Forward extent button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/next.png" alt="Forward extent" /></td>
<td><strong>Click</strong> to make the map display the map extent in the list of stored map extents. This is only available after the <strong>Previous Extent button</strong> has been clicked and works similar to your web browser's "Forward" button, but specifically for the map.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zoom in<br /></td>
<td><img title="Zoom in button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/zoomin.png" alt="Zoom in" width="16" height="16" /></td>
<td><strong>Click and drag a rectangle</strong> on the map while holding the left mouse button pressed down. The map view will zoom in to the area of rectangle drawn once you release the mouse button.<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zoom out<br /></td>
<td><img title="Zoom out button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/zoomout.png" alt="Zoom out" /></td>
<td><strong>Click and drag a rectangle</strong> on the map while holding the left mouse button pressed down. The map view will zoom out to the area of the rectangle drawn once you release the mouse button.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pan map <br /></td>
<td><img title="Pan map button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/pan.png" alt="Pan map" /></td>
<td><strong>Click and drag the map</strong> with the left mouse button hold down. The map will move until you drop it when releasing the mouse button.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reload layers<br /></td>
<td><img title="Reload layers button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/find.png" alt="Reload layers" /></td>
<td><strong>Click</strong> to reload the data sources and styling for all visible map layers. Using this feature, the map extent will not change.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zoom to full map extent</td>
<td><img title="Zoom to full map extent button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/fullextent.png" alt="Zoom to full map extent" /></td>
<td><strong>Click</strong> to make the map display its maximum extent, i.e. the start view of the CoFIS web mapping application.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Identify map feature</td>
<td><img title="Identify map feature button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/identify.png" alt="Identify map feature" /></td>
<td><strong>Identify</strong> -allows you to find information about the different features in the map.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Select map feature</td>
<td><img title="Select map feature button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/select.png" alt="Identify map feature" /></td>
<td><strong>Select</strong> -allows you to select features falling within a free-hand-drawn polygon. Returns information about the selected map features. (this is work in progress ...)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Measure distance</td>
<td><img title="Measure distance button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/measuredistance.png" alt="Measure distance" /></td>
<td><strong>Consecutively click</strong> at least two points on the map to measure the distance between.<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Measure area</td>
<td><img title="Measure area button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/measurearea.png" alt="Measure area" /></td>
<td><strong>Consecutively click</strong> at least three points on the map to measure the size of the area spanned by the points.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Print map</td>
<td><img title="Print map button" src="uploads/images/cofis-help/toolbar/printer.png" alt="Print map" /></td>
<td><strong>Click</strong> to create a printable PDF map or HTML document of the current map extent.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<h4 style="clear: both">B - Layer catalog</h4>
<p>The Layer catalog provides a list of mapping layers available for display. (Un)checking the box left besides the layer name will</p>
<ul>
<li>(un)display the respective map layer and</li>
<li>turn off/on the layer legend simultaneously.</li>
</ul>
<h4>C - Overview map</h4>
<ul>
<li>shows the location of the current map view in relation to all of Ethiopia (scale difference is 10x)</li>
<li>The red dotted rectangle in the overview map can be used to <strong>navigate/pan</strong> the main map window.</li>
</ul>
<h4>D - Zoom to predefined areas</h4>
<ul>
<li>provides a list of predefined areas that the user can zoom to<br />(e.g. the proposed Yayu Biosphere Reserve - as shown in the screenshot)</li>
</ul>
<h4>E, F - Footer information</h4>
<p>The footer provides information on the map, such as the current map scale and the ground coordinates of the cursor as user moves the curser over the map. It also contains hyperlink references to our project home page and the GeoMoose web site.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>E -Zoom to predefined scales</strong>: A dropdown menu lets you to select predefined map scales or enter a desired map scale manually.</li>
<li><strong>F -Curser ground coordinates</strong> (Meters according to UTM Zone 37N)</li>
</ul>
<h4>G - Zoom slider and map panning</h4>
<p>GoogleMaps like slider for zooming in &amp; out of the map center. Clicking onto one of the four arrows on top of the slider moves the map window into the respective direction.</p>