Getting Started
Welcome to MassHEIS, an interactive mapping tool that
allows you to explore the health and environment of
your community. This section of Help will get you started
with the MassHEIS tool.
Watch a Tutorial!
These two videos observe a woman seeking information
about her local area:
Or Follow These Instructions
To begin using MassHEIS, you can look at maps that
have been precreated with a particular theme, e.g.
breast cancer or polluting facilities, or you can build
your own map from a long list of environmental and
health data.
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1. From the MassHEIS home, look for the
Get Started box 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 Mapping page. To go back
to the page you came from, you can click on the MassHEIS
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
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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, Your Community, and Take Action. These tabs provide
links to more information about your selected topic,
and to ways you can take action to improve local health
and
the environment. |
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7. 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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8. Congratulations! You have developed and analyzed
a map of your area of interest! To create
a new map, return to the MassHEIS home.
For more assistance, please browse the other
HELP topics. |