| Getting Started
Welcome to MassHEIS, an interactive mapping service to help
you look at health statistics and environmental measures together
in one format. This section of Help will help you get started
in the MassHEIS application.
To begin using MassHEIS, you can choose to build your own map
from a long list of environmental and health data or look at
maps that have been precreated with a particular theme, e.g.
breast cancer or polluting facilities, by
using the options in the Quickstart section of
the MassHEIS home. Let’s begin with a Quickstart:
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1. From the MassHEIS home, look for the Quickstart
menu in the upper left hand corner. |
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2. Using the drop-down menu, choose which kind of map you would
look at and then select your town of interest. Click Make my Map!
to proceed to the map. |
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NOTE: You must accept the user agreement before proceeding. Also,
some pages will not display properly unless you turn off your
pop-up blocker
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3. You will now be on the Map tab. To go back to the
page you came from, you can click on the HEIS Home tab. NOTE: The
Back button on your browser is disabled for this application. |
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4. The map you requested is in the center of the page and the
list of displayed layers appears to the right. Click on the Legend
tab to swap your view to legend, which displayes symbols for the
selected data layers. To learn more about the data displayed in
your map, click
here. |
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5. Look at the buttons on the left. With these icons you can
zoom in or out, save, print, or find out more information about
the
items
displayed on the map. To learn more about using these tools, click
here. |
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6. Now look at the tabs along the bottom entitled Your
Health and Your Environment. These tabs provide
links to more information about the health problem you are examining
and about environmental measures in your area. |
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7. (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) The box in the bottom left
hand corner allows you to reset the map and links to
show
a new themed
map or
a new area. |
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8. Once you have toured the map page, you may want to look more
closely at the map you have developed. To learn more about
interpreting the data, click
here.
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9. Congratulations! You have developed and analyzed a Quickstart
map of your area of interest! To create a new map or build your
own, return to the MassHEIS home. For more assistance, please browse
amongst the other HELP topics |
