Help with the Tools

The currently active tool is highlighted in red.

Refresh You must click here each time you turn a layer on or off, or you resize your browser window.

Zoom Extent Click to see the entire map at it's full extent.

Zoom In Click or window on the map to see more details of a given area.

Zoom Out Click or window on the map the see a wider area of the map.

Pan Click and drag the map to recenter your view.

Buffer Type a buffer distance in the box at the bottom of the screen, then click on a feature on the map to get a list of all other features within that distance. Works on the active layer.

Measure Click on a point on the map to set and anchor. Then move the cursor and see the segment distance at the bottom of the screen. Click on the map again to set additional anchors. The segment distance is the distance of the current move position from the last anchor. The total distance is the distance between all of the anchors. To clear the anchors, click the measure tool again.

Hyperlink Click on a feature of the active layer to view available hyperlink.

NOTE: Not all layers have hyperlinked features.

Information Click on the map to see information on a feature. You can click on the in order to zoom to the feature on the GIS map, or on the in order to get a printable information card, or you can click on the in order to see all of the fields in the database. Works on the active layer.

Printable Info Click on a parcel on the map to get a printable information card. Works on the active layer.

Print Map Click to get a printable copy of the map.

Extract Shapes Click this icon to receive a zip file containing clipped shapefiles in the current view area.

Extract JPEG Click this icon to receive a zip file containing a GeoJPEG screen capture of the current view area.

Select Tool Click on a feature of the active layer to select

Other Features

You may type in a scale to zoom directly to a scale.

In Internet Explorer, you can resize your window and the map will resize to fit. If you change the proportions of the window just hit the refresh button to generate a new map. The size of the map image determines how long it takes to download. Since the size of the image is determined by the size of your browser window, you can make your browser window smaller in order to get quicker map downloads. Please find the balance between map size and download time that suits you.

Making a layer active and turning layers on and off

For many tools, you need to set the 'Active Layer'. Simply pick the radio button beside the layer you want to make active.

For example, if you want information on Parcels, select the radio button beside 'Parcels' from the layer window.

To turn a layer on/off check the box beside the layer name.

Note: Not all layers are visible at differing scales.

Search Tips

There are 2 kinds of searches that can be performed by this system, Geocoded Centerline search and standard SQL searches. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps to complete the search.

Step 1: Click on 'Search Menu'

Step 2: Choose a Search Definition. You can select from 'Address Search on Centerlines' and type in a physical address or 'Search Parcels' to search multiple fields of data.

Step 3: Complete the search form. Fill out one or more fields that you would like to search on. Any fields left blank will not be considered in the search. Each field you do choose to search on will give you a more restrictive search. For example, if you fill out a Last Name of 'Smith' and a First Name of 'John', then you will only get all of the 'John Smith's', not all of the 'John's' and all of the 'Smith's'.

Step 4: Press Click to perform search. This final step sends your request to our server which will then return the results to you in the “Results” window.

Once you receive your results you can simply browse the data that is given. The information is returned in groups of 10. You can navigate through the results using the buttons. Finally you can click on the in order to zoom in to the feature on the GIS map, or you can click on the in order to see all of the fields in the database. If your search does not produce any results, you will get the message "No Results Found". If this is the case, you may want to try a less specific search. If you get too many results, you may want to go back and try making your search more specific.

Other Information:

When doing searches on a text field, you will have only one box to type in. The “*“ is a special character that you can use to represent any number of characters in your search. The “?” is a special character that represents any one character.

When doing searches on a numeric field, you will have the choice of using 'equals to', 'less than', 'greater than', or 'is between'. Make your selection from the drop-down list and then fill out the left box for all of the searches, and the right box if you choose 'is between'.