Welcome to the Bundaberg Regional Council Interactive Mapping Help. This section will provide some assistance in using this service. If you still require further instruction after following through this documentation, please contact the GIS section at the Bundaberg Regional Council.
Icon Toolbar
At the top of the map is a single row of icons that allow interaction with the map. To find out what each icon does, move the mouse pointer over each icon until a small descriptive pop-up text box appears.
Zooming and Scrolling
When the main window map is open, you can zoom in or out, as well as scroll the map extents. To zoom in (or move in closer) to an area on the map, click on the plus magnifying glass icon. Either click once directly on the map or drag out a bounding rectangle of the area whilst keeping the left mouse button pressed then release to finish. To zoom out (or move further away), click on the minus magnifying glass icon, then either click once directly on the map or drag out a bounding box with the left mouse button.
If you have a wheel button on your mouse, first move the mouse pointer to the desired position and roll the wheel forward to zoom in or roll backwards to zoom out.
An Overview Map shows the relative position of your view within the area of the Bundaberg Regional Council. To quickly scroll to another region using the same map size of the current window extent, click on the inner rectangle located inside of the overview map and move it to the desire position. The map will be redrawn to reflect the new position.
At the base of the map window is a scale bar. To change the scale, click once directly on the scale bar box and enter the new scale. Press the 'Enter' key and the map is redrawn to this scale.
To move back or forwards of a previous window view, click the 'Go Backward' or 'Go Forward' icon's.
To return to the initial map view when you first started, click the 'Zoom to Initial Extent' icon.
Identifying a Feature
First scroll or zoom to the desired area of interest. Next click the 'Identify' icon and click once on the map directly over the entity to be identified. A new 'Identify' window is returned presenting a list of categorized features found at this point.
To examine the attributes of the listed feature in more detail, click the small arrow head (left of text) and a sub-listing of features is revealed. Click directly on each text sub-listing to reveal more information which is presented on the right hand side pane.
If you want to identify multiple features with multiple selections, you can perform a radial selection. To do this, click the Identify icon then click and hold the left mouse button whilst dragging out the desired radius. A radius value is dynamically calculated and shown while you perform this action. To complete the selection, release the left mouse button and a new 'Identify' window is returned.
Additional selection and navigations tools on the selected map feature are located at the bottom left of this window. Move the mouse pointer over each icon until a pop-up text box is returned describing the icon's operation.
Feature Selection Methods
While the Information button provides the quickest method to make enquires on features, additional feature selection tools can be found on the tool bar. They are as follows:
Select by Point
Select by Circle
Select by Line
Select by Rectangle
Select by Polygon
Selection Mode (add to or remove from a selection set)
To select a group of features, first click on the required selection method from the tool bar. When using the Line and Polygon methods, double-click to complete the selection region. After the features are selected, click the Selection Review tool bar button. A new window is returned containing categories of the visibly selected features along with their respective attributes from which you can examine. To produce a listing for any of the features’ attributes to your desktop in an Excel or PDF file, select the required feature category on the left-hand-side and either click the Excel or PDF icon located on the top right-hand-side of the window.
Note: The browser may use a pop-up blocker when trying to create the attribute listing. Allow the process to go ahead using the browsers’ Options (normally controlled via a left click on the Options button found just below the address bar). Second and subsequent attempts will work from then on (until you reset the browser pop-up blocker defaults).
Any feature selection set can be extended to by setting the Selection ' + ' from the drop-down Selection Mode tool. Features of a selection set can be removed using the Selection ' -' from the drop-down Selection Mode tool. To clear all feature selections, use the Clear Selection tool.
Zoom to Areas of Interest with
Map Grid Co-ordinates
To zoom to an area with co-ordinates, the co-ordinate values
need to be in easting (x) and northing (y) format.
Example:
x: 434,128.0
y: 7,249,657.0
These are typically known as map grid
coordinates.
On the tool bar click the Zoom to Coordinates icon. A form is returned from which you can enter
these values.
For the x field enter the easting coordinate.
For the y field enter the northing coordinate.
For Coordinate Systems field, scroll and select GDA 1994 MGA
Zone 56
For Scale, enter the desired display scale for your area.
Click Zoom to continue and a new map extent is displayed.
Additional Notes:
Geographical co-ordinates (i.e. Latitude and Longitude) can
be used but they need to be converted to map grid co-ordinates. For example, a GPS receiver may have been
configured to measure locations as geographical co-ordinates.
To help you convert geographic co-ordinates to map grid
co-ordinates, the following web site can assist:
Configure your GPS Receiver to measure points in map
grid coordinates to avoid conversion.
Familiarise yourself with the user manual so to ensure correct settings
are made in the receiver.
How to find a Locality, Property or Road
Click the icon representing a set of binoculars and from the drop-down combo box list that appears in the Search window, select the type of feature to be searched. Enter or select the attribute information that appears in the respective fields and click the Find button to initiate the search.
Known Issue:
When
clicking the Search button, the application may seem to have stopped
working. Please wait at least 25
seconds for the Search Window to display.
This is a currently a software limitation and we are waiting for the
software vendor to improve this function.
Map Legend
The Map Legend is an explanatory list of map features (or layers) appearing on the map. Clicking the 'Legend' icon returns a list of map features which are referenced in the map. Clicking directly on the Legend's key text reveals an expanded sub-listing of grouped map features (those indicated by a folder icon).
If you need to move the Legend window to another location, click and hold with the left mouse button on the outer frame of the window and reposition to your liking. To clear the Legend window, click the 'close' icon located at the top right of the window. Alternatively you can click on the Legend icon which acts like a toggle switch to turn the window on and off.
Turn Map Features and Text Labels On or Off
To turn individual map features and text labels on or off, go to the Legend window and place ticks in the respective check box for each map feature or grouping.
Note that map feature visibility is automatically controlled by a scale range setting. For example, the text for house numbers only appears when the map scale ratio is in beyond 1:3000. The aerial photography does not appear when the map scale has zoomed in beyond 1:1500.
You can determine the map feature's visibility scale range by going to the Legend window. Move the mouse pointer over the check box for the respective map feature and a small text box is returned revealing the scale range at which the map feature will appear. If the check box is grayed out, this indicates the visibility is currently off.
Measuring Distances and Areas
Click the 'Measure' icon to return a floating toolbar then move the mouse pointer over each button to find the required measurement tool. If you need to clear this toolbar from the screen, simply click the Measure icon again. By clicking the 'Measure' icon, it acts like a toggle switch to turn the toolbar on and off.
To perform a distance measurement, click the 'distance' icon and make single clicks on the map to draw out the measurement line. Double-click the last point to stop measuring and a total distance is returned as a text label near the last point measured to. If multiple line segments are drawn, their individual lengths are labeled respectively.
To determine the area of a figure, select the 'Area' icon and with single mouse clicks, trace out the feature with line segments. Double-click on the last point to return an area and perimeter as labeled values.
To clear any drawn measurement line work, click the delete button on the floating measurement icon tool bar then click directly on any part of a drawn line segment. If multiple lines were drawn, click the 'Delete All' icon to remove all the line work at once.
Printing Maps
Templates for A4 Landscape and Portrait printed maps have been provided. To print off a map, follow these steps:
Zoom to the desired area and turn on/off required map features through the 'Legend' window.
Click on the 'Print' icon located on the toolbar.
For "Layouts:" select the orientation required by clicking anywhere on the drop-down menu.
Enter an optional Map Title name and the format required from the drop down box. If a higher resolution output is required, click on the DPI setting drop down box and choose between the higher values.
Click the Print button and wait until the map is generated to a new browser window.
Use the browser menu/icon tools to print the output or alternatively, save it as a file to your computer.
If you require a legend for the map you produced, repeat the same steps and in step 3, select "Portrait Legend" from the Layouts drop-down box.
Note: If your browser does not produce the output to a new window, your browser's pop-up blocker may be preventing the output action. If so, check below the browsers menu, note any option to allow pop-ups from this web site and repeat the printing steps (if required). If this does not work, press and hold the Ctrl and Alt keys together on your keyboard just before you do step 5. Release the keys together until a new window containing the map output is returned.
Redlines
Redlines gives you the ability to draw basic shapes, free text and attribute callouts directly on the map to help you annotate or markup your map which can be included on your electronic and printed outputs. To access this functionality, click the Redlines icon to return a floating toolbar of icons. To find out what each icon does, move the mouse pointer over each button to display a descriptive pop-up text box.
To place an entity on the map such as free text for example, click the 'Text' tool icon, click a desired location on the map and type out the text. Press the 'Enter' button to complete the process. If you need to set the text style beforehand, click the style icon which is on the far right of the toolbar (a double-chevron symbol enclosed by a circle). A drop-down panel appears from which you can change text styles such as font type, font colour and size.
To clear individual Redline entities from the map, click the delete button. When deleting text, ensure you click at the insertion point (i.e. bottom of the first character typed). For Shapes and Callout entities, click anywhere on the outer edge of the linework. To delete all drawn redline entities at once, click the 'Delete All' icon.
Google Maps Link
The BRC interactive mapping service can provide a quick hyper-linking function into the Google Maps service. The location of selected property parcels can thus be reflected in this popular web mapping application. To utilize this function, follow these steps:
Method 1:
Click the Search toolbar icon and do a 'Property Description' search (i.e. Lot and Survey Plan No.)
Click the 'Selection Review' toolbar icon.
On the Selection Review windows, on the right hand side pane, click the hyperlink where it says "View in Google Maps".
Method 2:
With the Zoom and Pan tools, navigate close to the desired property.
Click the 'Identify' icon and click in the middle of the property parcel.
On the Indentify window, click the arrow head for Property Parcel to reveal the Plan\Lot text.
Click directly on the Plan\Lot text.
On the right hand side pane for the Selected Property Attributes, click the "View in Google Maps" hyperlink.
The browser should open a new tab or browser window showing the equivalent Google Maps location.
Further Assistance
For further assistance on how to use this interactive web mapping application, contact the GIS section at the Bundaberg Regional Council on 1300 883 699.
