There are two ways to conduct a search within the Map platform:
- Text Search: Text searches allow the user to type in a search for a location using several strategies, all through a single search box. This is conducted via the Search Panel.
Strategies include:- Text Search with Google - Places, Addresses, Cross-streets, and Latitude & Longitude.
- Site View Search - Layers and Attributes that have been made available to Map users via Publish
- Proximity Search: Proximity Searches are conducted when a user clicks anywhere on the map. Proximity Searches will return results for all data layers + attribute information for where the user has clicked the map. Search results will be displayed on the Search Panel.
1. Search Panel
The search panel is where users will enter text searches. The search panel is also the location which will display results when a proximity search is conducted.
If desired, users can toggle the "Limit text search to map extent" if they only wish to return results within their current map extent view.
The map extent is the area covered by the viewing area of your map. If you are zoomed out so that you can see the entire USA, then the USA is your map extent. If you are zoomed in so that you are only viewing one block of a neighborhood, then your map extent is that one block.
There are three primary components of the Search Panel, as shown in the pic above as 2, 3, & 4.
2. Places () found
This is where results of a Text Search with Google will display. As noted above, users can enter a place, an address, a cross-street, or a latitude & longitude - just like they would if using Google Maps. The resulting locations will display here. Users can hover over the results and click on the map icon (shown within the red square below) to zoom to that location.
3. Pivvot () found
This is where results of a Proximity Search will display. As noted above, users can click on the map to discover all the data layers + attribute information for where the users has clicked the map. Users can scroll down through the listed Pivvot data layers, selecting the "down arrow" to view additional information. As displayed in the image below, users can continue selecting the "down arrow" to get to the attribute information for each data layer.
Additionally, users can:
- click the "lightning bolt" to flash the data layer on the map
- click the "map" to zoom to that map extent of that data layer
- click "directions" to get directions from the user's location to that area
4. Site View () found
This is where results of either a Site View Text Search or a Proximity Search, when a user clicks directly on top of a Site View Layer, will appear.
Users can scroll down through the listed Site View layers, selecting the "down arrow" to view additional information. As displayed in the image below, users can continue selecting the "down arrow" to get to the attribute information for each Site View layer.
