Hi Lisa,
Firstly, congratulations on your application - it looks great, and obviously represents a lot of work. I like it overall - here are some suggested changes.
- The Zoom In and Pan tools are redundant - the map itself can handle these natively, so you could remove them to simplify the UI. It can confuse novice users when the map behaves differently depending on which tool is active
- Presumably your site is aimed at non-expert users, so I would remove a lot of the Advanced functionality like "toggle off wilderness names, toggle off popups", etc. Decide what will work for most of the people, most of the time, and set that as the default.
- Could you combine Zoom to a Wilderness and Search, since they're basically both navigation aids? If you used type-ahead (like in a Google search) you could prompt the user as they started typing.
- Clicking outside of a wilderness shows a warning message. If you used Feature Layers, you could listen for mouseOver events and highlight the boundary, showing people that something will happen if they click on that feature.
- The XY coordinates in the lower left are a bit of a distraction - do your (non-expert) users really care? What about showing the coordinates in the popup on mouse-click?
- I'm pretty sure it's illegal (or at least frowned upon) to cover the Bing logo 🙂
Congrats again,
Steve