• Getting Started
  • How to use the Menus
  • Using the Mouse
  • Using the Keyboard
• Tour
  • Identify Map Features
  • Search for a Location
  • Locate addresses on the Map
  • Map Layers and Content
  • Printing
  • Draw and Annotate
  • Measure
• System Requirements and Additional Information

Getting Started

The Interactive UCLA Campus Map enables you to explore UCLA and find information useful to you.

How it works

The Interactive UCLA Campus Map page has three main components: Along the top is the toolbar with attached menu buttons A widget area for advanced features and for interacting with the map. Available Widgets include: Search by keyword, building, point of interest, street, parking, and library. Identify campus features (e.g., buildings and points of interest) Zoom / Pan / Overview Overlay map detail layers Print Map Create Links Measure, Draw, and Annotate Map is main display area

Working with the Widgets

You can do the following to the Widgets, which have two buttons on their control bar.

• Show and hide by toggling "Minimize", which is located at the upper right corner of the control bar.
• Open and close by toggling the Toolbar icons
• Click "Close" to close the pane.
• Click and hold the Widget control bar to move it around.

Working with the menus

Menus contain tools that interact with the map, launch a widget pop-up, and launch a different website. The Map menu is a set of Widgets that deal with changing visible layers, seeing an overview, measuring distance, marking features, moving to spatial bookmarks and printing the map.

Home

Home is visible by default. Its zoom level display the entire UCLA campus.

Navigation Menu

The Navigation menu is a set of tools that move the map around.

1. Zoom In - by clicking on the map with your left mouse button and holding it down while you move your mouse you draw a rectangle that defines the new extent that the map will zoom in to once you release the left mouse button.
2. Zoom Out - by clicking on the map with your left mouse button and holding it down while you move your mouse you draw a rectangle that is subtacted from the current map exent and the differnce is what the map will zoom out to once you release the left mouse button.
3. (Zoom Full) sets the UCLA map the full extent.
4. Pan - clicking on the 4 arrows pans the map in their respective directions.
5. Zoom Previous - this command will take your map back to the previous extent that you were zoomed into if you have re-centered, zoomed in or zoomed out.
6. Zoom Next - this command will take your map forward to the next extent that you were zoomed into if you have re-centered, zoomed in or zoomed out and then gone back to a previous extent.

Tools

The Tools menu is a set of Widgets that displaying information about the map.

Help Menu

The Help menu is a set of links and information about the program.

Using the mouse

You can use a mouse or pointing device to move around and explore the map.

Map action	Use this tool...	...and do this
Re-center the map	Pan tool	Click on the Pan tool in the Toolbar, then click and drag the map to move it.
Zoom in	Mouse wheel	Scroll the mouse wheel forward or up to zoom in. Each wheel click will zoom the map by about 50 percent in width and height.
	Shift+Left mouse	Hold the Shift key down, then hold the left mouse button down and drag to draw a rectangle. The map will zoom in to the area of the rectangle.
	Zoom in tool	Click on the zoom-in tool in the Navigation Menu, then Click once on the map: the map will zoom in and re-center the map where you click; OR Click and drag to draw a rectangle on the map: the map will zoom in to the area of the rectangle.
Zoom out	Mouse wheel	Scroll the mouse wheel backward or down to zoom out. Each wheel click will zoom the map by about 50 percent in width and height.
	Ctrl+Left mouse	Hold the Ctrl key down, then click the left mouse button to zoom out. You can also hold the left mouse button down and drag to draw a rectangle. The map will zoom out so that the current map extent fits into the rectangle drawn. The smaller the rectangle, the more the map zooms out.
	Zoom out tool	Click on the zoom-out tool in the Navigation Menu, then Click once on the map: the map will zoom out and re-center the map where you click; OR Click and drag to draw a rectangle on the map: the map will zoom out so that the current map area will fit into the rectangle drawn. The smaller the rectangle you draw, the more the map will zoom out.
Zoom out to full map	Zoom full extent	Click on the full extent image in the Navigation Menu. The map will zoom all the way out to the full map extent.

Using the keyboard

You can use the keyboard to move around and explore the map. These keys navigate the map when the mouse cursor is over the map area.

Map action	Keyboard shortcut	Description
Zoom in	Shift +  +	Each click of the plus key (on numeric keypad only) zooms in the map by a fixed amount. Hold the Shift key down and press the Plus key.
Zoom out	Shift +  -	Each click of the minus key (on numeric keypad only) zooms out by a fixed amount. Hold the Shift key down and press the Minus key.
Recenter (pan) the map	Home Up Page Up Left   Right End Down Page Down	These keys move the map a small amount with each click. Arrow keys move vertically or horizontally. Home/End/PageUp/PageDown move diagonally. To use these keys on a numeric keypad, turn off the number lock (Num Lock key).
Zoom full extent	f	clicking the f key will zoom the map to the full extent

Tour

1. Start the Interactive UCLA Campus Map from the URL you have been given.
2. If you have a wheel mouse, zoom in on the map by moving the mouse over the map and scrolling the wheel forward a few times. Conversely, zoom out by scrolling the wheel baciward.
3. Zooming in and out can also be accomplished by (1) moving the arrow up and down the slider bar or (2) clicking the "+" and "-" at polar ends of the slider bar.
4. Pan (re-center) the map a few times by clicking and dragging on the map. The pan function is the default tool, active when the application starts.
5. Use the widget from the Toolbar to identify a building or point of interest (POI) on the map.
6. Select the widget from the Toolbar and in the keyword input box enter "Young", then hit Enter or click the "Find" button.
   The Search widget will expand to show the results containing "Young". Simultaneously, the corresponding areas on the map are highlighted.
   
   
   
   Click in the search results "Young Research Library" to zoom in on the building.
   Click or for directions to YRL.
   Click for location detail.
   Click to make a trouble call request.
   Click for more photos of YRL
   Click for reports.
7. Click the widget from the Toolbar to open the Details Pop-Up Window.
   
   
   
   Click the checkbox to overlay the various campus features on the map.
8. Click the widget to Print pop-up window.
   
   
   
   Note: the Print widget is actually one of the Tools, which
9. Click Print.
   
   
10. Alternately, once can link to the map by clicking the widget.
    
    
11. Click the Copy to Clipboard button, or highlight the link and press Ctrl C on your keyboard.
12. Measure Tool
13. Annotate Tool

Draw and Annotate

This widget allows you to draw graphics on the map for markup. You must choose one of the following geometry types:

1. Point
2. Line
3. Freehand Line
4. Polygon
5. Freehand Polygon
6. Text

Draw usage:

1. Like the Measure widget, the Draw widget can be opened from the tools menu.


2. Click on the map to begin drawing after selecting a geometry type.
3. The color selector and size will determine the color and size of the geometry you choose
4. Pint: Click on the map places a point on the map.
5. Line: Each click on the map defines the begining and end point of a segment of the line. Double click to end the line. The size number determines the width of the line.
6. Freehand: Click and hold the mouse button to drawn and release the mouse button to complete the drawing.
7. Polygon: Each click on the map adds a vertex. Draw a polygon in a clockwise direction.
8. Freehand Polygon: Press and hold the mouse button to draw polygon, release to complete drawing.
9. Text: First add the desired text in the text box, then click on the map to place the text. The size number determines the font size.
10. The waste basket is used to clear any drawings that you have made on the map.

Measure

This widget allows you to get measurement information.

• Point gives you readings in 3 different coordinate systems
  
  
• Distance between two points in
  
  
• Area measurements are in
  
  
• Clicking the Start Measurement button changes the cursor to a crosshair , and the reading appears at the bottom of the pop-up window.

System requirements and Additional Resources

Supported Web browsers

For the most up-to-date information on supported browsers, visit System Requirements at ESRI Support. Select ArcGIS Server in the Software list, select the current version (e.g., 9.3) in the Version list, then click Go. In the system requirements page that displays, under ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework, click the Supported Web Browsers link.

Other requirements

• Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
• JavaScript enabled in the browser
• For the Print task, popup blockers must allow the website to open a new browser window 

Additional Resources

The ESRI User Forums provide a place to share information with other users. For more information about ESRI GIS products, please visit the ESRI website.