Latest Contributions by LisaEidson

I have a map prototype in which I've added an "invisible" feature layer on top of my map which will "appear" when a user mousesover a wilderness area and is zoomed in. This produces a nice mouseover/out effect in which the polygon in question highlights in red and the wilderness name appears in a box overlayed in the top right corner of the map. None of this will occur unless you are zoomed in to at least LOD: 5 (see info below map to know when you're at this level or greater). If you zoom in use the vertical zoom bar, things work fine; however, if you zoom in using the zoom button at the top (rubber band zoom box) the polygons will highlight, but they won't obey the mouseout. So they're being added to the map, but not removed. I think this may have something to do with the zoom button since, without the nav controls, the mouseover/mouseout feature layer functionality works flawlessly. Not sure what the problem is here. Has anybody else had trouble with the nav buttons interferring with other stuff? Any ideas on how to correct this? Thanks in advance for any assistance. http://www.wilderness.net/maptest_featureLayer.htm ... View more

I have a feature layer that I'm using to create a highligh-effect so that if a user mouses over a wilderness boundary, the boundary will highlight and the wilderness name will appear in an overlayed div. Unfortunately, all the examples I've seen write outfields to info windows and I can't seem to find the right syntax to simply output it in the innerHTML of a div. This really isn't a map question, per se, but I'd appreciate some guidance on syntax. I'm sure this will be a super easy question to answer... http://www.wilderness.net/maptest_featurelayer.htm Thanks much! ... View more

The new wilderness map I'm testing and will eventually launch on my website http://www.wilderness.net could use a good critique. This map overlays official wilderness boundaries that I maintain on top of aerial photography and locational basemaps provided by Bing and a topographic basemap by ESRI. It also has a custom nav panel with various buttons and popups if you click within a wilderness boundary. I'd like some feedback on how this works, how intuitive it is, whether you can break it 🙂 Don't be afraid to be blunt! I've tested it in IE9, FireFox 10, Chrome 16.0.912.77m, and Safari (windows) 5.1. Feedback regarding performance in IE7, 8 would be much appreciated, as many in our audience use those browsers. Although it's not the most enticing incentive, I'd be glad to send anybody who offers a thorough critique a free Wilderness.net sticker; just email me, Lisa Eidson, your address and sticker preference (1 of 10 different ones with text on back) after you post your critique. Here's the link to the map: http://www.wilderness.net/map.cfm Thanks much to anyone willing to offer feedback! ... View more

I've developed a beta map that overlays wilderness boundaries on top of satellite, locational, and topo basemaps. I'm providing multiple ways for users to zoom into wilderness areas. They can obviously use the zoom scroller, double-click, or use the zoom dropdown boxes at the top, which I've programmed to zoom to the extent of whatever is selected. So if a user selects a wilderness, the map will zoom to the extent of that area. My beta testers, however, have said that the state dropdown is ineffective since it works well for some states that don't have too many wilderness areas or are small in size, but results in an overwhelming view for large states or those that have lots of wilderness areas (contrast selecting Vermont with selecting California, for example). So I've decided to eliminate the state dropdown and replace it with a zoom box button (probably a magnifying glass or something similar). When the user clicks on this button, I want it to result in a one-time zoom via the zoom box. So when the user clicks the button then clicks and drags on the map, they will draw a zoom box rather than pan. I know that users can do this as is, since I call map.enableRubberBandZoom, however, most people don't know this and it's not intuitive for my audience to remember to hold down Ctrl, then click and drag to draw a zoom box. The functionality I'm looking for is similar to the ArcGIS Explorer on ArcGIS.com. Unfortunately, while this seems like it should be pretty simple and a common task that map makers would want to do, I'm not finding anything in the way of examples. Any guidance would be appreciated! ... View more