MapGuide Viewer Tutorial


This page is designed to get you familiar with MapGuide Viewer and its capabilities. Below, you will notice a series of pictures, including various screen captures. By referring to these screen captures/descriptions and playing around with MapGuide Viewer yourself, you can use MapGuide Viewer to its utmost ability.

Buttons


Zoom

Use this button to zoom in on an area. Either click on a central location to zoom to or hold the left mouse button and drag the cursor over a desired area to zoom to the specified area.

Unzoom

Use this button to zoom out of an area.

Total Unzoom

This button will return the map to the original scale.

Move

With this button, you can manually move the map around. This is especially handy when you are zoomed in and want to move the map without loosing your magnification.

The "Right" Click

By clicking the right mouse button over different objects on the map, a menu bar will pop up with options according to where the mouse is located on the map. As you will see in the next few examples, there are many things you can do with MapGuide Viewer, but only most important functions are discussed on this webpage. The following screen captures should help understand some of the functions of the "right-click" in MapGuide Viewer.
To get the menu bar, click the right mouse button over an area you wish to explore.


By scrolling down to the copy triangle on the menu bar, you are given some options. This function allows you to copy the current location and map extent which can be viewed at a later date. You can paste the url in any word processing program.



By selecting "bookmark" from the menu bar, you can bookmark to the different maps you view using the MapGuide Viewer. Although we presently only have one map to view, you may come across other maps on the internet that require MapGuide Viewer as well. When your maps are bookmarked, you can jump from map to map with no problem.



The last function is pretty neat. By selecting "View" in the menu bar, you are given a "Distance" option. When selecting the "Distance" option, you can measure real distances over the map just by clicking a start point and clicking an end point. This is just one of the many inte functions that MapGuide Viewer provides.



Other Interesting Functions
If you place yout cursor over a selected position on the screen, you will be informed of what you are selecting. To the left we use the example, "Raingages". You can see the word 'Hughe.' This a specific Raingage located in the SRERs. This function is useful when you want to find a specific raingage, corral, transect, etc. or need to record one you have already found.