A series of controls and indications are grouped at the bottom of the Map display:

They comprise the following features:

• Info section
• LevelBand
• Timeline
• Measuring tool
• Vertical view
• Area drawing tool

Multiple tools can be used at the same time, and the active components have their icon painted in green - as in this view, which is actually the default when you first open the CRISIS Map:

Saved Settings

Whenever some changes have been applied to the settings of a filter, the corresponding icon gets a green band to reflect the customisation:

Even when the filter is deactivated and its layer removed from the map, the settings are persisted:

These settings are kept for the time of your session, and cleared when you close the Map window.

Show Settings

Filter settings are revealed in a tooltip when you mouse over the filter icon:

Reset Filters

Active filter settings can be manually reset (right-click on the target filter):

Info

 Coordinates: Indicates the coordinates of the point designated by the tip of the mouse pointer.

 Scale: Indicates the scale of the map as set by the current zoom factor (ranges from 2 NM to 2000 NM).

LevelBand

The Levelband serves to specify the Range inside which Entities and all related objects are to be drawn or displayed on the map.

By default, the Range is MSL > FL550:

Range Mode

To specify a given Range, use the mouse pointer to set the Upper and/or Lower slider to the desired value - see how moving up the Lower value to FL400 impacts the display:

You can alternatively use one of the predefined Range buttons:

Slice Mode

The Slice mode selects a single FL value that you can move up or down the scale.

Use the  button located on top of the vertical FL scale to toggle between Range and Slice mode:

Timeline

Objects and layers plotted on the CRISIS Map have a specific timestamp and validity and so may vary in the course of the day, the week, the year, ... The Timeline component allows you to specify the period for which you want the crisis events to be plotted on the map.

Date Controller

Use the Date Controller to manually enter a target date in the text field, or use the provided Date Picker.

Click on the  Calendar icon:

Next pick the target date from the Date Picker:

1. The Date currently selected (editable),
2. Display of the Month and Year of the date currently selected - each providing link to select different Month and Year respectively,
3. Backward and forward incremental navigation from Year to Year,
4. backward and forward incremental navigation from Month to Month,
5. Against light blue background, the Date currently selected,
6. The date of Today,
7. Against a solid color background, date(s) for which a Forecast or Danger Area is available,
8. Shortcut to select Today from any calendar page.

Time controller

The Time controller provides a simple means to move the time pointer back and forth and have the layers dynamically reflect the changes.

The timeline is divided in 6-hours blocks or varying color to indicate whether or not a forecasted event is available for display for the concerned time segment:

1. Light blue indicates that a forecast is available for that time range,
2. Dark blue is used for the currently selected time range,
3. White indicates that no forecast is to display for that time range.

Navigation

1. Use the  Backward / Forward arrows to scroll the timeline back or forth
2. Click inside a time range block to display the corresponding forecast, if any available or otherwise made (in)visible by means of the other map controllers:

Text color

Red: non-6H start

Green: 6H Start

Measuring Tool

This tool allows you to draw straight segments between locations identified by a sequence of left-click selection and compute both the segments length and the running total length based on the sum of the shortest distances on great circle to go from one point to another point, expressed in NM: 

Vertical View

The Vertical View tool allows you visualize how a given selected Flight intersects with the vertical definition of the displayed Crisis:

The FL axis provides the adjustable vertical scale. The NM axis displays, in addition to distances expressed in nautical miles, the various Waypoints and other significant points

Controls

Scale

Mouse over the FL and roll the mouse wheel up or down do change the vertical scale of the graph:and roll the mouse wheel up or down do change the vertical scale of the graph:

Likewise, mouse over the NM axis and roll the mouse wheel up or down do change the horizontal scale of the graph:

Zoom

Mouse over the graph and roll the mouse wheel up or down do zoom in...

... or out:

Move/Pan

Click and drag the graph to display the desired area:

Fit to window

Click on the  Fit icon ...

... to reset all zooming factor in such a way that the Flight profile is displayed in full in the available window space:

Area drawing tool

The Area drawing tool allows you to draw complex polygons directly on the Map:

• Click to sequentially add points to the closed path,
• Double click to finish adding points,
• If necessary, select individual points and move them to reshape the path.

When done, you can export the coordinates of the points forming the polygon:

• Right click to Copy to clipboard ...
• ... Then paste in the desired field or document (i.e. to import a Danger Area in the Crisis Details).