User guide: British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BCSRIF) map

The BC Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BCSRIF) map is an interactive map-based application that provides information about BCSRIF projects

The intent of this user guide is to provide an overview of the functionality of the application along with an explanation of how the widgets are used.

On this page

• About
• Actions
• Attribute table
• Basemap gallery
• Clear columns
• Clear map
• Close
• Collapse or expand
• Collapse table
• Coordinate display
• Data pop-up
• Default map view
• Dock
• Filter widget
• Layers
• Legend
• Print widget
• Refresh
• Search bar
• Select widget
• Show all
• Show or hide columns
• Show selection
• Undock pop-up
• User guide
• Zoom
• Zoom to

Brings you to more information about using this map.

In the pop-up window, allows you to choose from the following actions:

• zoom to selected feature
• pan to selected feature

In the table, allows you to choose from the following actions:

• zoom to all (or selected) projects
• pan to all (or selected) projects

Arrow at the middle bottom of the map, opens a table with listed attributes of each location seen on the map.

The panel menu includes:

• Options - a drop down menu with the following :
• Filter the table based on strings, as a single filter or a set of filters.
• Show or hide the columns.
• Filter by map extent - the table will only show projects within the chosen map area
• Zoom to - choose any one of the projects and it will change colour and go directly to that project on the map
• Clear selection - will clear all selected projects in table
• Refresh – the latest version of the projects data will be uploaded.
• The plus button on far right side of the attribute table - Show or hide columns.

Options to change the basemap style. The default is a National Geographic basemap, but there are several ocean-related basemaps that may provide additional options.

Closes a panel or pop-up window.

Clears the selected columns to be displayed in the table.

Clears the selected feature on the map.

Clears the selected row(s) in the table.

Collapses or expands the pop-up window. The arrow will point up or down to collapse or expand the pop-up window depending on where the window is located on your screen.
Plus sign: allows you to place a pin on the map, and will persist for the session, and will disappear once you close the map.

Arrow: allows you to choose different ways of presenting coordinates.

Collapses the table of projects.

Shows coordinate of cursor.
Plus sign: allows you to place a pin on the map, and will persist for the session, and will disappear once you close the map.

Arrow: allows you to choose different ways of presenting coordinates.

Choose any one of the locations seen on the map. This pop-up provides a summary of the data available for a chosen site.

These summaries are also available in the attribute table with more detail.

The zoom button on the button left of the pop-up allows you to zoom more into the chosen location.

The three dots button on the right side will display the option to:

• Pan to: allows the location chosen to be centered on the map.
• Add a marker: creates a marker for that location in your map.
• View in attribute table: will bring up a specific location and all attributes in the table

Resets the map to the default view.

Moves the pop-up window to the right side of the screen.

Option may be toggled on or off, and the drop down menu allows for filtering based on three Pillars of the program.

The three dots at the bottom right of the filter widget:

• First button on the left: returns the map to original settings (similar to the toggle off option)
• Second button (refresh button) reverts settings to original without filters.
• Custom filter (third button from left) allows for a more custom filter:
  • add expression - allows for filter based on all strings seen in pop up, i.e. name of project, title, summary, description. etc.
  • add set - allows you to choose mutliple sets of filter for strings seen in pop up, i.e. name of project, title, recipient, description, etc

• A list with a summary of the layers displayed on the map.
• The triangle expands the layers to describe the symbology and the three dots expands a menu with the following options:
  • Zoom to: Zooms to that specific layer on the map.
  • Transparency: Slide the object to adjust transparency for the layer icons on the map.
  • Set visibility range: Slide the object to choose or show a specific range within that layer.
  • Disable pop-up: Toggle between disabling pop-ups when that location is chosen or enabling pop-ups.
  • Show labels: Select whether to see the different layer(s) on the map or not
  • View in attribute table: See all of the projects within the chosen layer in the attribute
• The menu icon with the check mark on the right of the search button allows you to show different layers, turn them on/off and expand layers.

A drop-down panel with a summary of the symbols displayed on the map.

For printing the area of the map. Includes the location data points with the icons of pillars, or the selected area of your choice.

Refreshes the table contents.

A drop-down list with options for subsetting the locations in the map panel. The options include drawing a rectangle around the locations of interest. This will result in the map zooming into the extent of the selection and the attribute list shows only those locations that fall within the bounds of the selection.

A text-based search of the information. If the user selects a site that appears in the search bar list, this will create an action to highlight the location on the map with a cyan circle. This helps the user to navigate when zooming in to the site with the map zoom and pan controls.

For example typing “2019” will give a list of all locations where the string “2019” appears.

Note: If you know the name of the site you want to get information for, the search bar is a much faster way to navigate compared to zooming in and out on the map.

The map zoom level is maintained when you select a site from the search bar.

The maginfying glass searches for strings in search bar. The search can be filtered by Program Recipient or Project number from arrow beside the search bar.

Shows all rows in the table.

Allows you to show or hide table columns.

Shows only selected rows in the table.

Moves the pop-up window to the clicked or tapped location on the map.

Opens help window containing information on how to use the application

The plus sign (+) button on this widget will zoom in on the map and the minus sign (-) will zoom out. These operations will result in the location list panel being subsetted to only include the project sites that are within the bounds of the map.

Note: Since there are a large number of site, this can take a few seconds for the application to update the map and location list.

As the user zooms into the region of interest, the site names will appear on the map to aid in making a selection from the location list panel.

Zooms to the project displayed in the pop-up window.