User's Guide

FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Setting Up Your System
9. Repeat steps 2 through 8 to set up map displays for 200-, 150-, 100-, 75-, 50-, 25-, 10-, 5-,
and 3-mile ranges.
10. Repeat steps 1 through 9 for each important city in your viewing area.
11. Verify that you have a good coverage of the cities you want to see by zooming in and out on
relevant areas of your viewing area.
Customizing the Places Database
Many of our clients have gone beyond editing to customizing their Places Database. An example
of this customization process is identifying important intersections. At times, some locations
should be emphasized to stress the importance and location of weather phenomenon to your
users. The Baron database is completely client-customizable. You can take advantage of the
opportunity by creating identifiers for local features like schools, malls, churches, parks, and
stadiums. To add places for this purpose, follow these steps:
1. Select Setup > Map > Places Database to open the Select State menu, select the state, and
click OK to open the Place List for the selected state.
2. Click Add to open the Add Place menu.
3. Click on the appropriate location on your map display to have the longitude and latitude
coordinates automatically generated, or key in the longitude and latitude coordinates.
4. Key in the text (for example, enter an intersection name) in the Name box, type in the range
at which you want the place to display in the Show Range Text box, select the Show on
Maps options, and click OK to return to the Place List.
5. Click Done. You will be asked if you want to save the new name to a file. Click OK.
6. Go to the Views panel on the left side of the display. Verify that the view is in the range
specified in step 4, and click Update. Make sure that the new text is displayed.
To further emphasize a customized place, you can use the Street Spotter feature to import an icon
for it. See Section 3.5.5 for details.
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