Getting Started

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Navigation Controls

The Navigation widget provides a comprehensive set of map navigation controls in the Viewer. It includes all the standard navigation tools that end users expect from a Web mapping application. It is located on the left side of the Viewer and appears on top of the map display. It becomes transparent when the cursor is not hovering over a navigation control.

    Overview Map

The Overview Map widget adds an overview map to the Viewer. It shows the current spatial extent of the map display as a red rectangle (i.e., extent rectangle) relative to the entire spatial extent of the base map service. This widget is located in the lower right corner of the Viewer and is minimized by default, appearing to be hidden. It can be easily maximized by clicking on the expand arrow. Clicking on the minimize arrow will hide the widget.

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Main Toolbar (or Widgets)

    Bookmarks

The Bookmark widget stores a collection of map view extents (i.e., spatial bookmarks) of the data contents displayed in the Viewer application. It also enables end users to create and add their own spatial bookmarks.

    Find Address

The Find/Locate widget (a.k.a., Find Address or geocoding widget) enables end users to find a location on the displayed map content in the Viewer. The widget provides two ways to find a location: entering an exact address or using the graphic tools to draw a bounding box or crossing line over the area. Note: The address needs to be the complete address, including the number, prefix, name, and suffix type etc.

    Search

The Search widget enables end users to search for features in a specific layer in the Viewer application. The widget provides two different ways to perform a search: spatially (using a graphical search tool) or by Appraisal Account Number (attribute search).

    Draw & Measure

The Draw widget enables end users to draw simple graphics and text onto the map display. It provides simple "sketching and redlining" functionality for the Viewer application. It also provides some measurement capability, by displaying measurement values (if activated) for drawn features: lengths for lines, and areas and perimeters for polygons. When the widget is initially activated, the end user is presented with a simple dialog that contains 9 feature creation tools. To set the measurements choose the triangle at the top of the dialog first, pick your desired units, check the box to show measurements, then pick the pencil and draw the line or polygon over the area your interested in. Your measurement will label on the new line once completed.

    Print

The Print widget enables Viewer application end-users to print what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) output. All map display content that is currently visible will be printed. This includes the Navigation widget and the scale bar. End-users can specify a custom title and subtitle for the output document.

    Identify

The Identify tool allows users to gather information about a particular parcel, such as account numbers, owner names, address, legal description and property values. To use, choose the Identify button then the blue dot in the dialog pop up box. Then pick the parcel you are interested in. Note: You will have to be zoomed in and have the parcels showing to use this tool. You can repeat this process by picking other lots.

    Zoning Information

The Zoning Information button will allow users to obtain information about past and current zoning cases. To use, select the layer you want to see under the Map Layers tab and then pick the Zoning Information Button. When the dialog pops up, pick the blue dot and click on the appropriate case polygon on the map. The case details will appear. You can also click on the orange arrow with in the dialog or the pop up URL to connect to the City's ETrak-It page. This will let you find further details concerning the particular case. You can also select the current Zoning if the Zoning layer is turned on.

    Snapshot

This is a Snapshot widget which allows you to take a snapshot from an area of the map and save it as JPEG or PNG file (with optional geo-location files in a zip archive)

 

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Layers

Base Map    This map service is the basic street graphic map. The closer you zoom in the more detail will appear.

Aerial map    Use this service to see the City of Rockwall aerial photography taken in February of 2009.

Map Layers  This service contain interactive layers such as Zoning, Zoning Cases and Contours.