Welcome to

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Welcome to
My map!
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Today you are going to design your own map using

• To get started..
• Log into
• Click on viewer
• Type in the name of your high school into the
  tool bar at the top of the web page.

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• Click on the layers button in the tool box and
  ensure that the following layers are ticked.
• Overview
• Aerial photography
• OS Raster
• User data
• (move the layers forward and backwards to ensure
  they are listed in this order)

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• Zoom in to change the scale of the map using the
  slider. A good place to start is 120

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Activity 1

• Click on show opacity and show view to ensure
  that they are ticked.
• Practice changing the dimmers and view of the
  different layers you have opened to see what
  happens.

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• AGAIN, Zoom in to change the scale of the map
  using the slider. This time to 1.4k

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Move the layers forwards and backwards. Remember
the map is on the top if it is closer to the
bottom of the list.

• Click the box next to the OS raster to close this
  layer or use the dimmer to get rid of the map.
  You should now have an aerial picture of your
  school.
• You can bring back the map at any time by
  clicking the box again.

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• Practice using the tools (draw) to highlight,
  shade in and label things you can see on the map.

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How do I delete?

• Click on the select arrow. Then move the white
  arrow to the item you want to delete. Click on
  it. And press delete

When you click on the item you want to delete it
will show up like this.
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Start your map!

• Use the tools to highlight information on your
  map.

I used the pen tool to highlight areas that were
covered in woodland. I filled these areas in red.
I used the pen tool to highlight The area that
contained school buildings. I filled these areas
in yellow..
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Activity 3

• Use the Aerial photo to highlight other areas
  where the land is used differently (different
  land use).
• Try..
• Residential areas (houses) Could you highlight
  areas with different houses?
• Main roads, car parks
• Open space

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Activity 4

• Bring back the OS raster layer buy re-clicking on
  the box or using the dimmers.
• Can you add any more information using this map?
• Could you use the text tool to label roads and
  areas highlighted?

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Activity 5

• You can even start to label important buildings.
• Click on the select arrow in the tool bar.
• Double click on a place on the map this will
  bring up

Gazetteer
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Clicking here places the locations on the map
with a red dot.

• Add some locations to your map. Then add your own
  labels using the text tool.

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Finally

• Once you think you have completed your map of the
  area. Close all the layers you dont want
  showing, except user data (click on the boxes to
  close the layers) to see your map. And save your
  map using save in the tool box.