- User name registration
- Login
- Accessing map pages
- How to view maps
- Inserting icons
- Drawing in routes − pencil
- Writing in comments
- Pasting photos in the comment box
- Pasting video and blog parts in the comment box
- Erasing information - eraser
- Inserting links to the map
- Pasting maps on blogs, etc.
- How to print
- Other fine points
User name registration
First time users should create a username and password by clicking on the "user registration" button located under the login box at the top of the site's homepage and other pages. Only user names and passwords using the roman alphabet and numerals (english western font) can be registered.
Registration cannot be processed while your computer's anti-virus program is running, so users who are having difficulty might try rebooting their computer once before making further attempts to register.
Login
To log in, enter your user name and password in the login box.
Accessing map pages
Users can access the map page from either the "main menu" button located on the left of the screen or the "mapping page" button located in the center of the site's home page. Guests to the site can also access the map page without logging in, but any maps created by such guests cannot be saved.
How to view maps
When the cursor is placed over an icon or route, a comment box listing details automatically displays. Members can post comments on the icon or route via these comment boxes. Click on the commentator's name (underlined) to view his or her profile. In addition, if URL included in a comment can be hyperlinked directly by clicking on it.
Click on the mountain icon and stereoscopic height topography is automatically displayed.
See the shadow in cases of height topography is less-visible.
The altitude of the place is automatically displayed in a comment.
Moving the cursor over the line of height topography, an altitude in other
places is automatically displayed.
Click on the mountain icon again and height topography disappears.
Using "Topocoding API"<http://www.topocoding.com/> to display height topography.
Inserting icons
Click on the tab in the sidebar containing the icon to be pasted on the map (ex. "scenic view", "recommended cafe", etc.). Next click on an area of the map where the icon is to be inserted, and the icon is automatically created. Once the icon is inserted a comment box displays. For instructions on how to insert a comment, read the "Writing in comments" section below.
Drawing in routes − pencil
After selecting a type of route by clicking on its corresponding tab in the
sidebar, a route can be drawn on the map by clicking and dragging the mouse.
Double click to finish drawing in the route. The distance covered by the route
is displayed as it is being drawn.
When drawing in a route, once the line hits the edge of the map it repositions
to place the leading point in the center of the page. Once the route is drawn,
a comment box appears.
For instructions on how to insert a comment, read the "Writing
in comments" section below.
Extending Routes
A user can extend routes he/she has previously drawn. While in the "write
in info." mode, after selecting the pencil with the same color as the
extant route, a "+" mark appears whenever the cursor is moved close
to the route's start or terminus.
The route can be extended by clicking on the "+" mark.
Moreover, whilst in the midst of extending a route, if a user passes over
the start or terminus of a different same colored route that he/she had previously
drawn, another "+" mark will appear.
A user can unite the two routes by clicking on the "+" mark.
Writing in comments
A comment box automatically displays after a route or icon has been drawn
in.
Moreover, comment boxes for previous routes and icons are visible while in "browser" mode.
Write comments in the empty comment box and press the "submit" button. Comments are automatically arranged by username, so feel free to write comments in other users' routes and icons.
Pasting photos in the comment box
Click the lower right-hand button of the comment box (the "photo" button) and a selection box containing stored image files displays. Upon selecting a file, [Photo "X"] appears in the comment box ("X" stands for a number). Selected files will only appear in JPEG format (.jpg extension). After selecting a file, press the "submit" button and the image is displayed in the comment box.
Following the above steps, several photos may be pasted on a single comment box.
To erase a photo, delete the [Photo "X"] script from the comment box. Photos can also moved by cutting and pasting the [Photo "X"] script in a separate location.
Pasting video and blog parts in the comment box
Paste YouTube or blog part tags to the comment box.
YouTube or blog part links can be pasted into the comment box. Simply paste
the YouTube or blog part tags into the comment insert window and press "submit".
The blog part mark automatically displays within the comment. Click on it to open a separate window containing comments, play a video stream, or display the blog part as the case may be.
Erasing information - eraser
To erase routes select the "route eraser" tab; to erase icons select
the "icon eraser" tab. Just as with the write in function, click
and drag the mouse over the portion you would like to erase. For an instant
the underlying map will also appear erased, but only the information that was
written in will in fact erase. When erasing a route, be sure to fully erase
the start and finish points, or the route will not erase. Please note that
information provided by other users cannot be erased.
After selecting from the choice of erasers, click and drag the mouse over the
material you wish to erase. Other users' material cannot be erased.
Moreover, when a user displays the comment for a route or icon that he/she
had previously inserted, a trash bin mark appears.
Inserting links to the map
Links to other sites can be embedded in icons, routes or specially designated areas of the map.
Once the section of the map that you would like to create a link for is fully displayed, go to the button marked with a chain in the right-hand sidebar and click on it to display the map's coordinates. The coordinates are accurate enough that they will reflect whether the map is zoomed in or out. The coordinates are also automatically copied to the clipboard, making it simple to paste them onto a separate page, whether bulletin board or blog, and viewers can then access the section of the map from that link.
By clicking on the link button (marked with a chain) in icon/route comment boxes, that icon/route is displayed, and its coordinates are copied onto the clipboard.
The difference between a map link and a route/icon link is that with the latter,
if the position of an icon is subsequently moved, the new coordinates will
automatically update in the link.
Pasting maps on blogs, etc.
Entire sections of the map can also be pasted to other sites (blogs, etc.).
First, display the section of map that you would like to copy, pass the cursor over an icon to make the comment box display and click on the button marked with the box cutter image. If a comment does not appear in the selected area of the map, press the button marked with a box cutter located in the upper right sidebar.
The mouse cursor will transform into a box cutter. To cut a rectangular portion of the map, place the cursor at the upper left side of the target area, then click and drag the mouse in a downward and rightward direction. To close off the section, release the mouse button.
A tag for pasting the map image on blogs will appear. The map image's tag is automatically copied into the clipboard at the same time, allowing users to proceed directly to their blogs to paste in the image.
In the blog will appear a map similar to the one shown below. Scroll using the mouse drag, or zoom in/zoom out using the "+" "-" buttons.
However, map images can only be pasted on blogs that support the <iframe> tag. The map will not display after it has been pasted if the blog does not support the <iframe> tag.
How to print
To print a map, first press the button marked with a printer in the upper-righthand sidebar. Users should be aware that maps do not properly print using the browser's print functions.
The print image is displayed, therefore users can scroll by clicking and dragging the mouse over the image. Likewise, users can zoom in/zoom out using the "+" "-" buttons. To print with an icon/route's comment box displayed, pass the cursor over the icon area until the comment box appears, then press the print button and the opened comment box will appear in the printout.
Please note that the image will not properly print using the Firefox browser from Windows OS, so please use the Internet Explorer browser. Images can be properly printed from a Mac OS.
Other fine points
Icons inserted by the user will appear blue, while other users' icons will
appear green.
Users' can change the position of the icons they inserted by
clicking and dragging them.
To erase comments, first clear the entire comment
from the comment box and then press the "submit" button.
Note: using
the Internet Explorer browser, users can zoom in/zoom out the map with the
mouse wheel.
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