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Get around the COP+ map

The small controls that make COP+ fast, including zoom, cursors, toggle buttons, the top menu bar icons, and paging through map results.

Written by Phil Wheaton

Get around the COP+ map

The Common Operating Picture (COP+) map has a handful of small controls that show up everywhere. Learn these once and every other tool makes sense.

Zoom and move

  • Zoom with the +/- buttons at the bottom left, or roll the mouse wheel: up to zoom in, down to zoom out.

  • Click Zoom to Incident Location in the top grey menu bar to centre the map on the current hazard area.

Read the cursor

The cursor tells you what COP+ expects next:

  • Pointer is the default.

  • Selector appears when you pick a tool from a left-hand menu list.

  • Picker (cross-hairs) appears when a tool is active and waiting for you to click the map.

Orange buttons

  • An orange circle with a white X closes that tool and removes it from the display.

  • Orange circles with white arrows collapse or expand a panel, such as the left menu, a legend, or the callout window.

The top grey menu bar

  • Weather and the Air Quality Index reading appear once a hazard area exists. See Check or set incident weather.

  • VEOC toggles you between your COP+ session and its VEOC session (VEOC licence required). See What VEOC does.

  • The bell icon lights up when a Hazard Area Report is ready to view.

  • The communication bubble icon lights up when a Legal Location Lookup result is ready or a roadblock email has been dispatched.

  • The callout icon opens resident callouts. See Understand callout.

Scale bar and compass

Both live at the top left of the map and toggle from the Toolbox:

  • Scale Bar is on by default.

  • Compass is off by default.

Each also has an orange button that switches it off from the map itself.

Page through results

Clicking a map point can return several pages of results. Use the forward and back arrows to step through them one at a time, or click the page count in the middle to open every result in a table and jump straight to the one you need. The table is faster when there are many pages.

Active Tools and the spinner

  • Toolbox > Active Tools opens a small window at the top left listing which tools are currently on. The default is none.

  • A spinner at the bottom left means COP+ is processing. Wait for it to finish before repeating an action.

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