Geo Data Viewer

Use the Geo Data Viewer to do map-based analysis. The map is interactive:

  • Use your mouse to click, pan, and scroll to zoom within the map
  • Items on the map are marked with pins. Pins display together at high zoom levels. As you zoom in, pins display individually. Select individual items by clicking on their pins.

  1. In the top left corner, in the Search By dropdown list, click date range or click Custom to enter your own Start Date and End Date
  2. At the right of the screen, click Refresh to find items matching the dates you chose
  3. The items (represented by pins) that meet your date range appear on the map. Click an item (pin) to display the form name and Item ID

 

In the upper-left corner of the map, the map tools are in a vertical toolbar:

 

Map Tool Description
Map Layer Information ( )

For information about a specific point:

  1. Click Information ( )
  2. Click on a point on the map
  3. Layer Information and General Information display on separate tabs, if available for that point. General Information includes:
    • Facility locations and responsibility areas
    • Parcel information (depending on availability)
Measure Distances ( )
  1. Click the Ruler ( )
  2. Click on two points on the map to get the distance

Click the Ruler icon again to toggle it off

Show My Current Location ( ) Click Bullseye ( ) to center the map on your current location as determined by your web browser
Zoom In/Zoom Out (+ - ) Click Plus (+) and Minus (-) to zoom in and out
Zoom to a Specific Area ( )
  1. Click Zoom to a Specific Area ( )
  2. Click the map and drag to draw the zoom area
  3. The map zooms to the area you drew

To toggle off, click the icon again

 

In the upper-right corner of the map, put the mouse pointer on the Layer Picker ( ) to see the map layers (Street, Satellite, Hybrid) you can display on the map. If your company uses custom Map Layers, these are also in the Layer Picker (see System Management ( ) > Administration tab > General >Map Layers)

Layer Information Description
Facility Location A facility location is the geographical location of the asset or facility you are trying to protect. Facility locations are defined when you add map definitions. If you indicate that facilities are not in use, they appear differently on the map. Facility locations can be processed by auto processing rules (Auto Response)
ESRI Hybrid A base layer that shows streets, photographic landscape, and political borders (state, province, nation)
ESRI (Sat) A base layer that shows photographic landscape
ESRI (Street) A base layer that shows only roads, streets, highways
irth GIS A base layer that shows streets and political borders (state, province, nation)
Parcels Shows all parcel boundaries on the three most detailed (zoomed-in ( + )) map views

Responsibility Areas

 A responsibility area is the area in which a person, group of people, or an office is responsible for the work to be done in it. Responsibility areas are defined when you add Map Definitions (If you indicate that responsibility areas are not in use, they appear differently on the map)

 

  1. Click Search ( )
  2. In the search box, type an address (the search is formatted as street, city, state) or latitude/longitude coordinates (type latitude, a space, then longitude)
  3. Press Enter or click a suggested result to go to it on the map