CONTENTS

1. What is ArcIMS
2. Description of the ArcIMS Viewer
3. The Toolbar
4. The Table of Content
5. How to query a Layer
6. How to Print a Map
7. How to use a Map Image (i.e. in another document)
8. Refreshing a Map
9. Metadata

1. What is ArcIMS?

The ESRI Internet Map Server (ArcIMS) provides users with online mapping capabilities and access to published spatial and non-spatial datasets. ArcIMS offers tools for viewing and navigating as well as limited querying of your spatial and attribute data. The Map Display can be controlled by deciding which layers should be displayed and which not.

2. Description of the ArcIMS Viewer :

Map display area
The map display view window.

Overview map
Displays the overview map. The overview map gives an indication where you are in the Map Display. The overview map can be toggled on and off with the Overview button () in the toolbar.

Toolbar
The toolbar displays various buttons that allows you to interact with the map, ie. zooming in and out or panning around the map.

Active tool display area
Displays which tool is selected in the tool bar area.

Table of content & legend
The right hand side displays a list of all the data layers available for viewing and/or querying. For a detail description of the Table of Content, read below or read the Table of Content Description. The Map legend can also be displayed on the right hand side by clicking the 'Toggle Legend & Layer list' button.

Info Frame
The info frame displays general info of map actions, as well as forms to do data queries.

Scale bar
Displays the current Map Scale.

Data display (pop-up window)
Displays any data information of a layer in a pop-up window when you use the identify, query or search tool. Some features may be associated with multiple records.

Help
TOC Description and Map help gives help on using the map and gives a descriptions of the Table of Content.

For a detail description into each one of the tool's functions, see below
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3. The Toolbar:
The toolbar is displayed above the Map Display area. If you hold your cursor over a tool a name will pop up for that tool. The info, find, and query buttons can be used to find information in the database for the active layer. To use these tools it is necessary to make the layer you are interested in active. To activate a layer simply click on the radio button () in the Table of Content on the right hand side. A message should appear in the info frame on the bottom left hand side of the page. The other tools present are for navigating and measuring.

Tools List
Legend/Layer list button
Zooms in by clicking on or dragging a box on the map			Toggle overview map
Zooms out by clicking or dragging a box on the map			Zooms to full extent of the map
Zooms to the previous extent			Zooms to the extent of the Active Layer
Display linked web pages by clicking this feature			Pans as the user drags the pointer across the map
Query builder - constructs queries on the data			View attribute information of the active layer
Measure distances on the map			Sets map units for measuring distances
Select features by clicking or dragging a box on the map			Buffers selected features
Select features by either a line or polygon intersection			Clears all selected map features
display the Lat / Long when you click inside the map			Prints a map of the current Map Display
Save a Map Display			Zoom to a specified Lat / Long
Open a saved Map Display			Search

4. The Table of Content :
Map layers are listed on the right hand side of the Map Display area in the Table of Content area. Some layers are scale dependent () which means that if you zoom in or zoom out to a certain scale, these layers will be displayed automatically, that is if the layer visibility has been set to visible. If a layer's visibility is set to not visible, this layer can be displayed manually by checking its visibility to 'on' ().

The Toggle Legend & Layerlist button allows you to toggle between the Layer list or the Legend. The Legend displays the symbology for each visible layer.

Each layer has two interactive modes: Visible () and Active (). (NOTE : Image types like satellite images do not have attributes, and therefore do not have an active mode). Most layers are initially turned off to keep the download time reasonable. To view layers, simply click on the Visible check box and then refresh the map with the button found on the bottom of the list (If the Auto Refresh check box is checked, the Map will refresh automatically).

The Active () radio button allows you to make a specific layer active in order to use some of the query tools found on the toolbar. For example, if you wanted to query a layer, you would need to click on the radio button to the left of the layer name to make it the active layer, then click on the tool in the tool bar to query the layer.

5. How to Query a Layer?
The first step in querying a Layer is by making the layer to be queried active (). Then click the Query (), Search () or Info () button in the toolbar to query the attributes of the Active Layer. Click on one of the features of the active layer in the Map Display area to display the attributes of the selected feature of features. The Search ( button will make any stored query for the active layer available. If there is no stored query for the current active layer, a message will display saying that no stored queries are available for that specific active layer.

6. How to Print a Map

In the toolbar Click on and complete the fields in the next pop-up window. Then click the 'Print Map' button. Print the Map using File >> Print in the top Browser toolbar.

7. How to use a Map Image (i.e. in another document)

In the toolbar Click on and complete the fields in the next pop-up window. Then click the 'Print Map' button. Right click on the Map Image and either save the image or copy and paste the image into a document.

8. Refreshing a Map
For the map display, to reflect your command when you change the visibility of a layer, you MUST use the Refresh Map button. For example, if you click the Visible box for a layer, click the Refresh Map button to display the new map in the Map Display. Likewise, if you want to make a Layer not visible. If the Auto Refresh check box is checked, the Map will refresh automatically.

9. Metadata
Click here to go to the Metadataexplorer