Getting Started

The WIMBY Maps tool enables you to explore maps of your area and find information useful to you.

How it works

The WIMBY Maps tool has three main parts: Along the top, there is a toolbar and links to the main Road Home website, Help and Legend. Map Menu, on the left side of the page,allows interaction with the map and provides, information about the map. Tasks enable you to find and interact with data. Available tasks include: Search for Address Search for Neighborhood Search for Zip Code Using Results Map Contents Navigation

Working with the Menu

You can hide and then show the Menu as needed. Click the gray arrow just to the left of the map to hide the Menu. Click the arrow (which now points to the right) again to show the Menu.

You can resize the area used by the Menu by clicking and dragging the divider between the Menu and the Map. This allows more room to view either area as you work.

You can expand and collapse sections as needed. Click the down arrow to expand a Menu section:

Click the up arrow in the title of a section to collapse it to its title bar:

The content of the section is hidden but not deleted. Expand the section to see the content again.

Menu sections can be resized in height. To resize a section height, move the cursor to the bottom of the task section, until the up-down arrow appears. Click and hold the left mouse button, and drag the section up or down to resize.

Clicking the double-right arrow of a Menu option will move that Menu block into the Map area.

To return the Menu block to the left Menu area, click on the double-left arrow . The Menu block will move to the bottom of the menu blocks.

Working with moveable elements

Some elements, such as the Measure window, may be moved around the page, collapsed and closed. You can arrange these elements to suit your own work.

To move elements, click and hold with the left mouse button on the title bar of the element. As you hover over the element's title bar, the cursor changes to a four-way arrow, indicating you can move it by clicking and dragging.

Drag the element to the position you want, then release the mouse button.

If you accidentally move an element outside the visible window, you may move it back by using the browser's scrollbars to scroll the window until the element is visible, then drag it back to the main area of the window.

To collapse the element, click the up arrow in its upper right corner. The element window collapses to its title bar. To restore it to normal view, click its down-arrow.

Close a moveable window by clicking the close button it its upper right corner. Most such windows may be re-opened from the appropriate location. For example, the Measure and Magnifier windows may be re-opened from the Toolbar.