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 enter the name of the state you want and the map will be zoomed to the state.

Enter the name of the state you want and click go!

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Place Search

This tool enables a place to be searched and zoomed on the map centre.

Enter the desired place and click the find button. 

 This will then zoom the map to the place searched for as below:

Example above selects Uyo and zooms to the map centre.

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Route planner/City maps

 This section of the application allows you to view city maps and explore places of interest in each city.

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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Street Locator

This utility allows you to find/locate any road, street, close, avenue, crescent, drive, lane in Port - Harcourt. Enter name of street in the box and click find.

Enter the name of the street of interest and click find, the exact street name should be entered, else no street will be returned. Note: Enter "Street" as "Str.", "Lane" as "Ln.", "Avenue" as "Av.", "Crescent" as "Cr.", "Close" as "Cl.", "Drive" as "Dr.", "Road" as "Rd." When the find button is clicked, the street is zoomed to the centre of the map as shown for a street "Olaide Tomori Str."below:

THE MAP LAYER TOOL

The list allows you to view the map by theme, check the appropriate theme which then updates the map window and updates the legend at the same time.

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THE OVERVIEW MAP

With the overview window, you can interactively reposition the map window, if any area of the overview map is clicked with the mouse, the red box is re-positioned and at the same time the map window is updated with the new location.

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