New Jersey Kayaking

How the Maps Work

The maps in this site are 'live' - you can pan and zoom them, and also change their style. Every map has the following controls:

• At the upper-left, the [+] and [-] buttons control the zoom. You can also zoom with the mouse wheel, but you have to click the map first to activate it. Below the zoom controls is the Home or Reset button. If you've wandered off and want to get "Home", this button will restore the map to it's original location and zoom.
• At the lower-left is a usefully large scale. It amazes me how many online maps have no useful scale, or no scale at all! You can't do anything with it, and it is stuck on miles - no kilometers, this is the USA.
• At the upper-right is the Full-Screen button, so you can see the map in all its glory. Below the Full-Screen button is the Mode button. This will cycle the map through the three available modes: Topographic, Road, and Satellite.
• At the lower right is the "Attribution" - the credits for the map source. Finally, at the center of the map is what I think of as the "Bomb Sight". I originally put it there for just when I was working on the website, but it is so useful, I decided to leave it up all the time. Go ahead and put it over a DMV office and make 'whistle and boom' sounds.

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