MapGuide Instructions
Go to the website leecountymaps.com. To install all of the necessary viewers follow all of the instructions. After you click here to get started, then click GO TO MAPS. If you already have Internet Explorer there is no need to install it again.
How to find a parcel by address:
Under parcel search, enter your street # and street name, click search. If you do not get any results, remove the street # and click search. Example: Enter the street name Sandray and leave off Drive, Street, Court, Etc.
At the bottom of the screen you will get parcel summary results. These results are in parcel number order, so if you want to sort them by name order, click Name and they will sort by name. If you want to sort them by location order, click Location and they will sort by location. You can scroll up and down to find the person or address you are searching for. After you have located the person or address, click the magnifying glass on the left side of the screen and it will zoom you to the parcel on the map and highlight the parcel in red.
To zoom in closer go to the top of the screen under Map Tools and click Zoom In. If you want to see the aerial photo go to the top of the screen under Overlays and click Aerials
How to find a parcel by Name:
Under parcel search, enter the last name first, click search. If you do not get any results, remove the first name and click search
Boles Ian
At the bottom of the screen you will get parcel results. These results are in parcel number order, so if you want to sort them by name order, click Name and they will sort by name. If you want to sort them by location order, click Location and they will sort by location. You can scroll up and down to find the person or address you are searching for. After you have located the person or address, click the magnifying glass on the left side of the screen and it will zoom you to the parcel on the map and highlight in red. Also if you hold your cursor over a parcel it will tell you the map number, municipality, owners name and the physical address if we have it in the data base.
To move the map, click the pan button and hold down your left mouse button and move the map any direction you would like. When it is where you would like to be let go of the mouse button.
To measure distance, click the measure button. Click the beginning point on the map that you would like to measure with your left mouse button and pull it to a point on the map and click the map again. This will give you a running total of the measurement.
To print your MapGuide map, click the print map button or move your cursor into the map display window, right-click somewhere within the map area and then select "Print Current View" from the popup menu. The "Print Current View" option in the right-click menu prints the map using the standard Windows printer dialog. The usual method of using the browser's "File", "Print..." menu options usually doesn't work.
There is no "Print Preview" option and there is no way to preview your printed map before printing.
Prior to printing, you can right-click and select "Page Setup..." (just below "Print Current View") to customize some of the printed map's printed appearance by adding or removing a title, legend, scale bar, north arrow, URL address and date/time. The default "Scale plot to fit page" is usually the best choice.
Most users want the map to fill the printed page. Therefore, on most of our maps, we have changed the defaults so the title, legend, scale bar, north arrow, URL address and date/time are not printed on the map. You can customize your map by turning on one or more of those extra features. These options are under Page Setup... in the map's right-click menu. It's usually best to select the Landscape option in your printer's "Print Setup..." dialog to make the map fit the printed page better. By leaving all the optional print features off and using your printer's Landscape mode, the map fills the printed page.
Map printing suggestions:
You may have trouble getting imagery, such as aerials, to appear sharp on printed output, particularly when making large format prints. MapGuide optimizes the delivery of imagery for screen display, not printing. Also, you cannot download the source image files using MapGuide.
MapGuide looks at the current displayed map scale as well as the pixel size of your screen window and re-samples the original image data so it is optimized for your display. This is how MapGuide enables fast display of imagery from source files that are many gigabytes in size. While not usually a problem, you may have similar problems making large prints of vector data (points, lines) if your screen size is small. There are a few things you can do to get the best possible resolution and detail when printing MapGuide maps:
· Make the map window as large as possible on your screen:
o Map window can be enlarged by dragging edges on the sides and on the top and bottom with the double arrow.
o Reduce the size of the MapGuide legend.
o If you are using Internet Explorer, choose View, Full Screen (F11) to reduce control space as much as possible.
o If you aren't using Internet Explorer's Full Screen (F11) mode, then enable the map window to cover the task bar.
§ For Windows XP, uncheck "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows" in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties.
§ For Windows 2000 and older systems, uncheck "Always on top" in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties.
· Use the Windows Display Control Panel settings to the largest screen area your hardware supports such as 1600 x 1200 pixels or more if you can do it. If you don't want to use these settings all the time, set them temporarily to do your printing.
· Zoom to the desired scale, then right-click on the imagery layer name in the MapGuide legend and select "Rebuild". This causes MapGuide to re-sample the imagery to be sure it is optimized for your current view. (MapGuide doesn't refresh the imagery for small changes in scale. Refreshing the map may help because if the zoom amount is small, MapGuide may not re-sample the image on the server to give you the absolute, best image. Doing a manual rebuild of the image forces a refresh and ensures the best possibly quality for the current scale.)
· Get a bigger monitor that supports higher resolutions. Now you have a good reason! (You wouldn't normally think that a bigger monitor could help printing, but if it enables you to use higher resolution settings, it will help in this case.)
· You may want to print a larger map image. Follow the tips above under Printing the Displayed Map to make the printed map fill more of the page. On the other hand, a smaller map will make the map appear sharper.
Remember that screen or printed detail is always limited by the resolution of the underlying imagery and will not appear sharp if you zoom in too close.
Printing to Scale
MapGuide uses a simple ratio for the viewing and printing scale, such as 1:2400. This means that one unit on the displayed map equals to 2400 units on the ground. For instance:
· At 1:2400, one inch on the displayed map equals 2400 inches on the ground.
· At 1:2400, one foot on the displayed map equals 2400 feet on the ground.
· Etc. It's the same for all units.
The simple ratio that MapGuide uses means the units are the same for both sides of the ratio.
You may prefer to think of scale as 1 inch to some number of feet rather than a simple ratio. That is, inches to feet rather than inches to inches, or feet to feet. If so, you need to convert your scale to a simple ratio. For example, for a scale of 1 inch equals 200 feet, the scale must be converted to have the same units on both sides to make a simple ratio. In this case it's easiest to convert feet to inches by multiplying 200 feet by 12 inches per foot, giving an equivalent simple ratio of 1:2400 (1 inch to 2400 inches).
To print to a specific scale:
· Right-click inside the map and select Zoom, Zoom scale.
· Specify the desired simple ratio scale factor (2400 in the above example) and hit OK.
· Right-click inside the map and select Page Setup...
o Under Include, turn off any unnecessary map features to give you more room on the printed page for your map.
o Under Map Size select Specify scale.
o Enter exactly the same simple ratio scale factor that you zoomed to (2400 in the above example) and hit OK.
· Right-click inside the map and select Print Current View.
You may see the message "The entire map cannot fit on a single page at the specified print scale. The map will be cropped to fit on the printed page. Do you want to continue printing?" If it won't fit, there is nothing the print process can do to make it fit at your specified scale without cropping.
To "deselect" a selected parcel, hold the SHIFT key and click on the parcel to be deselected.
To clear all selections and start over: right-click, Select, Select Clear or the Clear Select Button.
Scale and Zooming
The data is on map layers and becomes visible or selectable depending on map scale (zoom factor). The bigger the map, the more detail you see. Some layers are only available at certain scales. For instance, you need to zoom in to see parcels and zoom out to see major streets and routes.
"Sticky" Toolbar Buttons
The MapGuide map toolbar tools "stick". That is, tools stay active until you pick another map tool or press the Esc key. You can pick the zoom tool and keep clicking on the map to zoom, zoom, zoom.
Remember that you can press the keyboard Esc key to get back to the default tool and map cursor. Or, you can simply pick the "Select" tool on the MapGuide tool bar to get back to the default tool.