Using the Environmental Facilities and Cancer Map

General Instructions

The map may take a long time to load at first. Please be patient.

Do not use the "Back" button in your Web browser when using the map. Using the "Back" button will take you away from the map and return you to the last Web page you viewed.

Warning Messages

When you view the map, if a window with the following message appears, please answer, "No."

"Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?"

If a window with the following message appears, please answer, "Yes."

"This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?"

Finding Locations or Areas of Interest

There are three ways to find locations or areas of interest on the map.

1. Search for an Address

  • In the "Search" box on the left side of the screen, make sure that the "Address" tab is selected.
  • Enter an address in the "Address" field and click the "Find Address" button. Provide a complete address if possible, including street number and name, city, and ZIP Code. This may help ensure that the address is found.

2. Search for an Environmental Facility

  • In the "Search" box on the left side of the screen, select the "Environmental Facility" tab.
  • Enter the name of a facility in the "Facility name or ZIP Code" field and click the "Find Facility" button. Provide the complete name if possible. This may help ensure that the facility is found. You can learn more about different types of environmental facilities.

3. Navigate the Map

See Navigating the Map below for help.

Zoom in or out on the Map

You can use your mouse to zoom in or out on the map. Several options for zooming are provided.

  • If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can scroll the wheel forward to zoom in or backward to zoom out when your mouse cursor is over the map.
  • You can use the zoom control at the left side of the map to zoom in or out. Click the plus (+) button or move the slider up to zoom in. Click the minus (-) button or move the slider down to zoom out.
  • You can use the "Zoom Box" tool to draw a box around an area on which you wish to zoom in. To use the "Zoom Box" tool, first click the "Zoom Box" button on the toolbar above the map. It is the second button on the toolbar from the left. Then, click and hold the left mouse button on the map near the area on which you wish to zoom in, drag the mouse to draw a box around the area, and release the mouse button. The map will be zoomed in to that area.

Pan (Move) the Map

There are two ways to pan the map.

  • You can click and drag the map in the direction you want to move it.
  • You can click one of the arrow buttons in the upper left corner of the map to move the map in the direction of the arrow. Clicking the center button, which has 4 arrows pointing toward the middle, will return the map to the full extent, the original view of the whole state.

Note

To click and drag the map, either the "Pan & Zoom" tool or the "Identify" tool must be selected. The "Pan & Zoom" tool is selected when the map first loads. If you select another tool, you can select the "Pan & Zoom" tool again by clicking the leftmost button on the toolbar above the map.

Change the Map Type

You can click the "Satellite" or "Hybrid" buttons in the upper right corner of the map to see a photographic view. This view might be helpful if you are trying to identify environmental facilities by their physical features, such as a large factory or other structures indicating industrial activity.

Viewing the Five-Year Cancer Counts

To view five-year cancer counts within one of the small geographic areas, make sure that the boundaries of the small geographic areas are displayed. These areas are selected to be displayed when the map first loads, but they are not visible until you zoom in.

Displaying the Boundaries of the Small Geographic Areas

  • In the "Layers" box on the left side of the screen, make sure that the check box next to "Five-Year Cancer Counts" is checked. It is the third item from the bottom of the list of layers.
  • The boundaries should appear on the map in dark red. (The lines may look brown on some screens.) If they do not appear, zoom in until they appear.

Viewing Five-Year Cancer Counts in a Small Geographic Area

  • On the toolbar above the map, click the button labeled "Identify."
  • Find the small geographic area in which you are interested on the map. Hover the mouse cursor inside the area and click the left mouse button. A balloon showing the counts of the different types of cancers diagnosed in that area from 2003 to 2007 will appear. You can learn more about different types of cancers.

Note

Cancer counts can only be viewed for small geographic areas. Small geographic areas cannot be combined on the map.

About the Five-Year Cancer Counts Data

You can view detailed information about the five-year cancer counts data by clicking on the question mark symbol next to "Five-Year Cancer Counts" in the "Layers" box.

Viewing Information About Environmental Facilities

To view information about environmental facilities, you first need to display the locations of the types of facilities in which you are interested. You can learn more about different types of environmental facilities.

Displaying Locations of Environmental Facilities

  • In the "Layers" box on the left side of the screen, check the check box next to each type of facility that you would like to display. If the facility types and check boxes are grayed out, you need to zoom in before you can check the check boxes and view facility locations.
  • For each facility type that you selected, symbols like the symbol next to the facility type in the "Layers" box will appear on the map where the facilities of that type are located. Some areas of the state may not contain any facilities.

Note

If there are two or more facilities in the same location or very close together, the symbols for each may not all be visible at once.

Viewing Information About a Facility

  • On the toolbar above the map, click the button labeled "Identify."
  • Find the symbol representing the facility in which you are interested on the map. Hover the mouse cursor over the symbol and click the left mouse button. A balloon showing information about the facility will appear. If you click where multiple symbols overlap, only the information about the facility represented by the topmost symbol will be displayed. To view information about a facility for which the symbol is overlapped, you may need to zoom in until the symbol is not overlapped and then click on it. If the symbol that overlaps it is for a different type of facility, you could hide that facility type by unchecking its check box in the "Layers" box.

About the Environmental Facilities Data

  • You can view a detailed description of a type of environmental facility, including definition and contact information, by clicking on the question mark symbol next to the facility type in the "Layers" box.