Personalize

Setting interface Options

Configuration

Several of the ways the web site operates can be customized to fit personal preference. The following options are able to be set on a per machine per user basis.
Note: Option settings are stored in a cookie. Therefore if cookies are ever cleared for this or all sites, your options will have to be set up again.
Start by clicking the Options icon in the Toolbar.

Hide page header

Select this option to hide the images and links at the top of the page to provide more room for the map (full screen mode).

Display Scale Bar

Check this box if you would like to have an alternating bar show a scale of miles, yards or feet (depending on zoom level) in the lower left corner of the screen.

If this or the Scale Ratio option are selected, the footer section will automatically be hidden when you open the map.

Display Scale Ratio

If selected, a ratio will appear in the lower left corner of the map above the copyright text.

This is a simple ratio not referencing any one particular unit of measure. Therefore, a scale of 1:205 means that every inch on the screen represents 205 inches in actual (real) space.

Show category last in Identify

When using the Identify tool, this option allows the choice of listing the feature property or the category first.

(Default)
Category first		Feature first
	OR

Notice that showing category first always uses two lines for each feature, while the alternative uses one.

Include buffer with select tool

Check this to include a buffer around the drawn shape when using the Select tool.

(Default)
Select Only		With Buffer
	OR

If the select tool is showing when clicking this option, you can see the Buffer option appear and disappear. If the buffer option is not selected, then no buffer will be included around the drawn shape (i.e. buffer of zero).

Pop-up window for parcel properties

The Properties tool either has a link to the State Equalized Value or can automatically display a new window with the taxable values.

(Default)
Link only		Pop-up window
	OR

Latitude Longitude in Status Bar

The Latitude and Longitude of the current mouse position displays in the far bottom left corner of the browser window when this option is checked.

Some browsers do not contain a Status Bar and thus will not allow the display of this feature.

When first turned on the numbers may represent values in the NAD 1983 State Plane Michigan South FIPS International Feet coordinate system. Changing the extent (zoom or pan) should adjust the values to be in decimal degrees.

Do not use pop-up map

By default, the map will open in a new full screen "pop-up" window when you start the application. To prevent this and have the map open in the same window as the link you click, check this box.