Notes about the MSU Campus Interactive Map
Tips for Viewing the Interactive Map
We would like to thank the
The MSU Campus mapping project is underway. Students in the Advanced GPS Mapping for GIS class kicked off the project Fall semester 2005. They created a spatial database of the MSU campus incorporating the existing Gallatin County roads layer and the MSU campus CAD (computer aided design) drawing, along with new layers (listed below) that the students mapped using GPS. The first phase of this project included the central part of campus. In future semesters, participating students will map the remaining areas of campus and add additional layers to the map. They will also further develop the MSU Campus Interactive Map (please see notes below about the interactive map).
The Fall semester 2005 students who kicked off the MSU Campus mapping project are Selita Ammondt, Jill Flores, Brandy Gubler, Tom Kingsbury, Morgan Poor, Lisa Reimer, Allison Ross, Alison Smyrk, Jenny Watts and Dan Zyvoloski. Thank you students for getting this project off to a great start.
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Buildings
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Building corners
à building
polygons
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Entrances
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Utilities
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Water main valves
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Fire hydrants
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Street lights
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Manholes / sewer
access
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Public phones
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Transportation
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Roads (utilize
and expand existing
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Bus stops
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Pedestrian
crossings
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Sidewalks
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Stairs
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Benches
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Permanent bike
racks
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Safety features
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Fire escapes
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Landscape features
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Ornamental trees
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Lawn and
landscape areas
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Water features
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Streams
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Ponds
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Miscellaneous
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Bulletin boards
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Waste disposal
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Recycling
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Campus Art
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Mailboxes
Notes
about the MSU Campus Interactive Map
Only four hyperlinks are currently implemented
- Leon Johnson Hall – main building (links to the webcam on top of the building)
- Leon Johnson Hall – teaching labs (links to Dept. of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences website)
- Leon Johnson Hall – lecture hall (links to Leon Johnson Hall photo and building information)
- Evergreen tree on the northwest corner of the SUB – links to Tracy Dougher’s horticulture website information about the tree
More links coming soon!
Tips for Viewing the Interactive Map
The MSU Campus Interactive Map can be viewed interactively from your web browser. You will be able to zoom in, zoom out, identify features and perform several other interactive map operations. Just click on the link above and the map will be "served" from our end using ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) software.
Tips for viewing interactive maps . . .
Tool bar: Move your mouse cursor over any one of the tools at the top of the map window. A description of what the tool does will appear in the bottom left corner of the map window. If you can't see the description, scroll down or drag the map window down to make it larger.
Identify tool: The "identify" tool (a black circle with a white i inside). It allows you to view the attributes of a feature (such as a building, a road, or a landscape feature) by clicking on it. In order for this tool to work, the box next to the "theme" name in the table of contents on the right side of the map has to be check-marked, indicating that the theme is visible. Also, the layer you want to identify has to be activated (click in the circle next to the layer name). To identify a feature, zoom in to the area of interest, first click on the identify tool, then place your mouse cursor over the feature you want to identify, and click on the feature. A list of its attributes will appear on bottom of the page.
Error messages: If Netscape or
Internet Explorer gives you a Java Exception error when trying to view a served
map, it is because your browser is using a previously cached version of the
map. To solve this problem, hold down the shift key and click on the
"Reload" button. (Just clicking on the reload button may only refresh
the page from the cache; holding down the shift key forces the browser to
reload the page from the webserver).
More tips coming soon…