User's Guide

FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Adjusting Views
4. Click the Previous button on the Main View panel to return to your base view, and then
zoom in to the next area of interest. Once you are comfortable with using this sequence to
present storm views, you will want to use it often.
Many broadcast clients use the Previous button as a quick map switch, as shown in the following
example. Assume that you are doing a short cut-in before going on the air.
1. Zoom into the area of concern, then click the Previous button to return to the overview so
that you are ready for your cut-in.
2. When your cut-in starts, show the overview, and then say something similar to, “Let’s zoom
into the area of concern.”
3. Select Previous to have the system instantly zoom into that location. You can now discuss
the situation and even place a storm track.
3.2 Setting Map Parameters
The View Map Features panel controls the map display. To activate it, click
on the Map button in the More Settings area at the bottom of the panel. After
you save all parameters for a view, any other manipulation of that view keeps
those same parameters.
Topographical and texture mapping is also saved as a parameter.
This lets you have specialty backgrounds for instantly displaying
news graphics. Your most often used parameters should be on your
default view. (You can activate Views 1 through 4 by using the hot
buttons at the top of the screen.) The system will use those
parameters when the view is activated.
The following paragraphs describe each option on the panel.
 Boundaries lets you turn both state and county lines on or off individually.
 Roads lets you display roads at the specified level. Show controls whether
any roads appear. Lock sets the display of roads at the specified level. (The
higher the level, the more roads will be posted.)
 Waters/Rivers functions are similar to the Roads functions. Show lets you turn on and turn
off displays of rivers and other bodies of water. Lock sets the display of bodies of water and
rivers at the specified level. If rivers are turned off when you update the view, subsequent
zoom or pan operations result in a view with no river features. Fill automatically fills in
empty water features. When selected, Fill bolds the river water lines. Thus, if a river is
narrow enough, it will be filled.
 Bold Map Lines doubles the size of all map lines. While it usually is inappropriate at large
distances, this option can be quite useful at close ranges.
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