Zoom In

This tool allows you to zoom into the map: it will enlarge any area you wish to look at in more detail.

Pass the arrow cursor over the ‘Zoom In’ button, click once with the left-hand mouse button. Now when the cursor is moved over the map it will be in the shape of a cross. You can zoom into the map in two ways:

1. Move the cursor to the area of the map you wish to enlarge.

Click the left-hand mouse button once, this will enlarge the map by a fixed amount. (The place you clicked the cursor will now be at the centre of the enlarged map.)
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2. Click the left-hand mouse button and keep it held down, then drag the cursor to form a box around the area you wish to enlarge. Releasing the left-hand mouse button will enlarge the map area you have selected with the box.

Zoom Out

This tool allows you to zoom out of the map: it will show a wider area of the map, but with less detail.

Pass the arrow cursor over the ‘Zoom Out’ button, click once with the left-hand mouse button, now when the cursor is moved over the map it will be in the shape of a cross. You can zoom out of the map in two ways:

1. Move the cursor over the map. Click the left-hand mouse button once, to zoom out from the map by a fixed amount.  (The place you clicked the cursor will now be at the centre of the map.)
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2. Click the left-hand mouse button and keep it held down, then drag the cursor to form a box. When the left-hand mouse button is released, the map will zoom out so that the current view will fit into the defined area of the box.

Re-centre

This tool allows for the map to be re-centred: it will maintain the map size. 

Pass the arrow cursor over the ‘Pan’ button, click once with the left-hand mouse button, now when the cursor is moved over the map it will be in the shape of a diamond. By clicking any location on the map, the map will be moved and re-centred on that location.

Print Map

This tool allows you to print the map as currently viewed on screen.

 Click on ‘File’ and this will reveal a pull-down box, scroll down to ‘Print’ and click once. This will bring up a box in which you can choose your printing preferences, e.g.. how many copies you want. To initiate printing, click once on the ‘Print’ button.

Identify Tool

This tool allows you to call up any information relating to a selected point/ feature on the map.

Pass the arrow cursor over the ‘Identify Tool’ button, click once with the left-hand mouse button, when the cursor is moved over the map it will be in the shape of a cross. Move the cursor over a feature and click once. All stored information relating to this selected feature will be listed in the Information window on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. 

Zoom to extent Tool

Clicking this button refreshes the page and loads up the default settings, i.e. the map showing the entire extent of the country selected.

Zoom to state

This tool enables the map to be interactively zoomed to each particular state. Just select from the list on the drop down menu and the map will be zoomed to the state selected.

Select the state you want from the “Zoom to state…” drop down box.

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Address Search

This tool enables an address to be used as the basis for an address search. A map is then drawn with the selected address at its centre.

Pass the arrow cursor over the ‘Address Search’ button, click once with the left-hand mouse button. 

 This will bring up a panel like the one below.

Select the city you want to find an address, fill in the name of the street, click the search button and the map window will be updated with

the address entered.

Fill in the address details of property required. You can provide full or partial details. This means you do not need to know the full address you are searching for. It is possible to type in just the first few letters of a road name. For example, typing ‘Ogun’ into the ‘streetname’ box, will produce a list of all the road names beginning with ‘Ogun’ in the city selected, such as Ogunlana Street, Ogunlami street etc.. You can also use a wild card search if you don't know the full name by adding a % after a text string e.g. Sov%, which then finds every name beginning with Sov. Depending on the level of detail you have for the address, clicking the ‘Search' button  should return one address, or a list of addresses. If there are no addresses that match the details you have typed, a blank table will be presented, click on the  arrow button to start a new search or close the address search window.

The search can produce one or more than one address which will be presented in a table as shown below:

If the search produces a number of addresses in a list, you can select an address by moving the cursor over it, and clicking once. A map will be displayed in the map window with the selected address at the centre.

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Route planner/City maps

 This section of the application allows you to go to the route planner page and allows you to view city maps and explore places of interest in each city. Route planner only works for individual cities for now.

Select the city of interest from the drop down menu.

This will take you to a new page with the selected city map in the map window. Example for Port Harcourt, Nigeria as below.

On each city map page, you can go to another country or another city by using any of the two drop down menus as indicated below.

To navigate to another country or city use either of the drop down menu as shown below.

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Route Planner

The route planner allows you to select start and end points on the map with a click of the mouse and draws the route on the map and gives a table showing turn by turn directions from the start to the end of the route.

The route planner tool is located on the right of each city map page. Example is shown below.

The tools is used as follows:

If you know the name of the street on which your start and end locations are, you can enter the name in both the start location and end location text boxes.

After entering the name, you click on "find" and the street is zoomed to the map,

 You then click on the "set start point" radio button and click on the exact location you are travelling from on the map.

Do the same for the end location.

After doing this, the start and end location will be shown as two dots as shown on the map below:

You can then click on the "find route" button:

This will then draw the route on the map as shown below:

To clear the route and plan a new route, click on the "Clear Route" button as shown below:

After the route has been drawn, scroll down on the page and a table will be presented with turn by turn driving direction from the start to the end of the route. To see detailed maps for all turns, click on the hyperlink on the detailed map column and each turn will be shown on a map within the column for each turn. click again and that will remove the detailed maps for all turns.

NAVIGATING IN ROUTE PLANNER/CITY MAP.

To navigate, the route planner/city map has its own peculiar navigation tools as shown below, this can be used to navigate the map before or after the route is drawn. As shown below, the tool can zoom extent/in/out, re-centre, identify or go to the main country map page. To zoom in/out on the route or on the map, click on the respective radio button and click on the area on the map you want to have a closer look at (enlarge). Do the same for the re-centre tool which positions the map on the exact location you clicked on. The full extent button will zoom the map to its entire view. The home tool takes you back to the country you came in from.

To use the "Identify tool", click on the radio button and click on any map feature you want to have detailed information about, the feature is then labelled and if you scroll down, a table is shown with the attributes of the particular feature you clicked on, example as shown below.

Pan Arrows are located around the map image designating the four cardinal directions. When you click on any of the arrows, the map will move in the appropriate direction.

THE CATEGORY LIST

The category list allows you to view the map by theme, click on the appropriate theme which opens up other sub-themes from which you can then click and the map will be updated with the appropriate sub-theme you selected.

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Contact Us

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