Promap Masterclass - Article 2

This is the second offering of Promap Masterclasses. This blog looks at tips to help in identifying sites and help navigating your maps.

• Using the ‘Site Info’ tool to locate and find out information about your site
• Using different styles on the OS Detail and UKMap Detail Layers.
• Finding the origin point of your OS Detail Map whilst roaming without incurring roaming charges.
  

Using the ‘Site Info’ tool to locate and find out information about your site.

The “Site Info” tool will allow you to click on any property on the Street, VML Raster, Aerial and Detail Layers and it will immediately give you the easting and northing co-ordinates and the full address of the property, enabling you to correctly locate your site without incurring unnecessary costs.

However, on a couple of these layers it will give you even more:

• Aerial - On the Aerial Layer the “Site Info” tool will also tell you the date the aerial photo for that site was taken.
• UKMap Detail (currently only available for the London area) – On the UKMap detail layer the ‘Site Info’ tool will also give you the land use, feature type, retail name, retail classification and building height.
  

      Using different styles on the OS Detail and UKMap Detail Layers.

     The two detail layers on Promap will give you the following choice of map styles which are accessed via the highlighted section of the image above:

OS Detail

• Colour map style – This will usually be your default.
• Black and white – Ideal for large amounts of customisation.
•  Hybrid option – which will allow you to overlay the detail mapping onto an aerial photo to help you highlight information more accurately. To assist with the hybrid option a slider bar will also appear allowing you to control the dominance of the aerial and map images.

UKMap Detail (Available for London only)

• Colour – This will usually be your default.
• Colour with Trees – Showing all the trees above 3m in height.
• Black and white – Again useful when applying large amounts of customisation.Building Use – This gives the usage classifications for all the buildings.

  Finding the origin point of your OS Detail Map whilst roaming without incurring roaming charges.

If you have been roaming around on the OS detail layer and the roaming charge boxes have started to appear you can return to the point where you originally opened the map using the home button and avoid unnecessary cost.

NOTE: The OS detail is the only map layer that has roaming limits.

If you found this article useful, keep an eye out for our next post which is due to be published on the 13th AUGUST 2014. For more detailed advice on Promap why not book one of our training courses (which are all now FREE) or visit our training website by clicking here to find other useful tips and training aids.