The Sewer Atlas Interface

This describes the basic layout and tools available in Sewer Atlas.

Sewer Atlas interface

The application’s interface is comprised of two main components:

  • Map Window: The right side of the interface displays the map. Tools for navigating and interacting with the map and data overlay the map.

  • Information Window: The left side of the interface displays information about the map or widgets used to interact with the data. The Information Window can be collapsed by clicking the close arrows (“<<”) at the bottom of the window.

Map Window

Sewer Atlas Map Window

Above: elements of the the Sewer Atlas interface Map Window

By default, drag the map to pan; use a scroll wheel if available to zoom. Clicking on wastewater pipes and structures will reveal a pop-up window containing more information about the infrastructure.

Three buttons located in the top left corner of the map window provide additional control:

  • Zoom buttons zoom the map near and far.

  • The Home button resets the map to its inital zoom and location

  • The My Location button will set the map to your location, if your browser and/or device has the necessary geo-location capabilities enabled. These capabilities vary by device.

Adjacent to the Zoom, Home, and My Location buttons is a Search Box. See Searching for Locations for mor information.

Two widgets are located at the bottom of the window:

  • the coordinates of the map cursor, reported as longitude and latitude (X and Y) in decimal degrees. See Identifying Coordinates for more information.

  • a tab, which when clicked will reveal the Attribute Table. See Using the Attribute Table for more information.

Three widgets are located in the top-right corner of the map window:

Measure

This widget allows you to quickly measure distance and/or area on the map. Select the Area or Distance button in the widget, and then click on the map at desired locations. The length or area of the drawing will be displayed in the widget.

This tool will also identify the longitude and latitude (X and Y) of a point placed on the map. See Identifying Coordinates for more information.

Print

This widget allows you to print your current map view to a .pdf or one of several image formats.

Information Window

Sewer Atlas Information Window Above: elements of the the Sewer Atlas interface Information Window

The left side of the screen contains a collapsible window that displays several types of information and/or options for configuring the map. Along the top of this window you can find icons for the following ‘widgets’:

Legend

Summarizes the symbols for features currently shown on the map. This window will change dynamically depending on the layers shown on the map.

Map Layers

Shows all data layers available for viewing on the map, and allows the user to select layers See Changing Map Layers for more information.

Network Trace

Opens the Network Trace tool. See Tracing the Wastewater Network below for more information.

Query

(under the More icon) Provides the ability to select features from the sewer data. See Selecting/Highlighting Features for more information.

(under the More icon) Displays Available basemaps for display underneath the Map Layers. See Changing Basemaps for more information.

About

(under the More icon) Provides an introduction to the application.




This documentation draws heavily from ArcGIS Online documentation: Overview-Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS - Create Apps - Widget Overview. Accessed September 2015. Source documentation © Copyright 2015 Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.