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Helpful Tips #1

Controlling the Size of Screen Work Space, STDB Organizaton & Map Navigation:

Using F11: When you arrive at Site Analysis press the F11 key to reduce the IE toolbars and provide more map space on Site Analysis. To return the toolbars press F11 again.

Enlarging/Reducing the MAP Area: The map is the majority of the area you see on your screen. You can make the map a larger full screen by clicking the ‘Hide’ button on the bottom left corner. To see the decks again, click the return arrow in the bottom left corner of the map.

Training Help:

Training Videos: If you have not used the new Site Analysis, we recommend you press ‘PLAY VIDEO’ to watch a general overview of Site Analysis in less than 2 minutes. More videos are planned to help demonstrate specific STDB tasks.

Organization of the New STDB Site:

The new STDB platform involves far fewer steps to analyze real estate than the prior version due to more efficient organization of the tools and reports.

Decks The left side of the page is the deck side where you create projects, study areas, choose reports, add layers to the map, display business points, choose map types, and set your default personal preferences. You can also set your preferences and add layers to the map.

Projects: A project is the main grouping for your studies and consists of one or more study areas. You can group study areas into projects according to theme, area, time, customer, or other categories that fit your needs.

Study Areas: A study area defines a boundary analyzed in a report and takes the place of “geographies” in the former STDB platform. There are several ways to define study areas including rings (radii), donut rings (bands), drive-time polygons, shape files (special files that can be uploaded directly into the map), hand drawn shapes, or standard geographic areas (formal geographies under the former STDB platform). Use any combination of these study area types to provide a side-by-side comparison of a specific site to the region in which it resides.

Examples: a. A project called “Office Client” with study areas individually analyzing different locations. b. A project called “Listings” with a different study area for each listing.

Map Navigation:

Widgets: Widgets are the floating objects on the map. There are presently two: the “find” widget and the “zoom” widget. You can move them by left clicking on a widget and dragging it to a different location. Close widgets by clicking the X on the top right corner of the widget or by clicking the Maps tool tab. To make widgets return to the screen, click the ‘Map Tools’ button on the top right area above the map.

Navigation Widget Click the minus (-) to zoom out or the plus (+) to zoom in, or use the scroll bar within the widget. If you have a scroll on your mouse, place the mouse pointer on the map, scroll down to zoom in and scroll up to zoom out.

Use the Navigation Widget

Zoom in or out by moving the slider or clicking the + or - icons

You can also navigate with your keyboard

To pan the map:

click and drag the map image in the direction you want to move click the arrow keys in the direction you want to move.

To zoom in or out:

press the Shift key and drag the map area to zoom in use + and - keys on the keyboard

To hide the Navigation Widget

click the X in the top right of the widget To return the Navigation widget: click the Map Tools button on the top right above the map

Find Widget

Use the Find widget to locate street addresses, postal codes, cities, states, countries, provinces, and continents. In addition, you can enter phone numbers and URLs. TIP: You can only find street addresses and phone numbers within the United States.

Click the 'Find this computer' button to locate your computer's IP address on the map. TIP: The result is often an IP address of your service provider and not the exact current location of the computer.

Find This Computer Click the 'Location on map' button then click the map to see the address of a point on the map. TIP: If address location is not available for your point, then you see its latitude and longitude coordinates.

Find This Computer Use the 'Find in an Excel file' button to locate addresses you have stored elsewhere in an Excel file. This is how user point lists are loaded into the map.

Pan the Map To move the map, left click on the map, hold down the left click, and drag the map to the desired location.

Help For a comprehensive help menu and FAQs, click the Help button on the top right of the map between the Map Tools and Log Out buttons. This Help page is continuously updated as we release more functions and provides help and tips in using Site Analysis.

Printing/Saving the Map

The map you see on your screen can only be printed at this time using a screen capture program (such as PrintKey, available for free at; "http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22960-order,1-page,1- c,alldownloads/description.html). This program allows you to crop the map you have displayed and print it or save it as a jpg, tiff, or other file formats (which can then be inserted/pasted into Word). Follow the simple program instructions for details.