Instructions
The following instructions are brief how-to steps to navigate the Lakes of Texas web application. These instructions provide both information pertaining to the main home map, which allows users to choose which lake story they would like to view, as well as guidance for after a user selects a lake story, showing how to navigate the page and use the tools available within the lake story view.
- Click a marker cluster to zoom closer to the area.
- Hover over markers to view lake name.
- Keep zooming to view lake polygons and hover mouse over lake to view information.
- Click a lake marker or polygon to go to a story.
- In each lake story view, story content is in the left pane and a map with the lake boundary is in the right pane.
- Click a content section header to jump to different sections of the story or scroll through to full story.
- In the map pane, there is a tools menu. Click a year in the slider tool to view historical imagery layers.
- Use the 'swiper' tool to view the changes between historical imagery layers and Google imagery.
- Zooming and panning is enabled, but limited to near the selected lake. Use the 'Full Lake Extent' button to zoom back to the extent.
- Click the Lakes of Texas logo in the top left to return to the main statewide extent map or select another lake from the Lakes dropdown in the top right.
