This is an accordion element with a series of buttons that open and close related content panels.
What's an Interactive Map?
An interactive map responds to clicking and rolling your mouse to show more information. Use check boxes to turn on details.
Map Requirements
- Must have Flash player plug-in version 8 or higher installed (Do I have it? What version do I have?)
- Pop-up blocker set to accept this URL
- Best operation with high-speed internet
- May not work as well with Safari browser
Troubleshooting
Almost all problems can be solved by two actions:
- Upgrade your Adobe Flash Player
- Use any browser but Safari
I have Flash player, but my map has streaks or only displays half the map like this when I start the map.
Solution: Upgrade your Adobe Flash Player
Solution: Your Flash player may have configuration problems. Uninstall and download a fresh copy.
I see the map but there’s nothing to click, no text on the buttons or no icons on the map.
Solution: Upgrade your Adobe Flash Player
When I try different combinations of layers in the comparison tools, the map crashes and stops.
Solution: Please contact us with the combination you were using so we can check it out.
Air Photo Features
The main AIR PHOTO button features are:
- 2004 Image
- Historic animation tool
- Analytical comparison tool
2004 Image
This feature lets you fade the most current aerial photo so that you can compare it to the basic map underneath.
HOW TO USE:
- Click the title “2004 Image”
- Drag the slider down from the deafult 100% to a lower level.
- Watch the basic map underneath as features are revealed.
ALSO TRY:
- Turn on any other layer, such as NATURAL FEATURES > Hydrology, and compare layers
- Turn on the Analytical Comparison Tool (see below) to compare multiple aerial photographs.
Historic animation tool
This feature plays an animated sequence of all Preserve aerial photos from 1927-1999.
HOW TO USE:
- Click the title “Historic Animation Tool”
- Click the PLAY ANIMATION button in the control window.
- Use the square STOP button to pause the animation.
- Use the slider, and the STEP FORWARD and BACK buttons to jump to the next photo.
ALSO TRY:
- Before you start the animation, click on Frautschi Point to ZOOM IN. Notice the large black spot in the open area, which is the Big Oak. Start the animation and watch how this oak savanna landscape fills in over time.
- Turn on WAYFINDING > Boundaries and re-play the animation. Compare changes over time within the present boundaries.
- See a web photo album of these historic aerial photos.
Analytical comparison tool
This feature plays an animated sequence of all Preserve aerial photos from 1927-1999.
HOW TO USE:
- Click the title “Analytical comparison tool “
- Select a TOP and BOTTOM layer in the control window.
- Use the slider to fade between layers.
- Click the Toggle Images text to switch between layers.
ALSO TRY:
- Turn on SOILS as the bottom layer and 1949 Aerial. The check the VIEW LEGENDS checkbox to see a pop-up key to soils. Drag the top bar of the pop-up window away for a better view.
- Turn on FUTURE VEGETATION as the bottom layer and PRESENT VEGETATION as the top layer. Use the VIEW LEGENDS checkbox to see where planned restoration planting will take place.
Navigation
Navigation and links at top, some hints:
LOCATE BOX: type any letter or text then CLICK the name to zoom in. Type the letter “A” and scroll to see the complete place list. Please remember that this Locate box only searches for place names that appear on the map; to search the rest of the website, you must use the Search box on the website.
PRINT BUTTON: Prints what you see on the screen, and strips out the menu bar, info window, and navigation window to produce a cleaner printed map. Users wishing to produce a digital copy of a map view can create a PDF if they have appropriate software installed. For instance, if you own Adobe Acrobat, you can choose Acrobat Distiller or Adobe PDF as your printer to create a PDF map.
OPTIONS BUTTON: Some of the most important and useful functions of the interactive map are under the Options button, so it is well worth the time to get to know them. All are ON by default, so you turn off these functions by unchecking the adjacent box.
- Automatically zoom to selected feature: Sometimes it’s easier to study various features of the map by forcing it to show the same view as you move from place to place. To prevent the map from zooming and panning as you move from place to place, uncheck this box.
- Automatically open info window: Sometimes when you’re studying different layers of the map and don’t need the texts or photos in the info window, it’s more convenient to prevent the info window from opening and blocking your view of the right side of the map. Uncheck this box to prevent the info window from appearing.
- Show map labels: Especially when you’re studying analytical layers like soils or vegetation, you prefer to have your view obscured by the various labels that are ordinarily always turned on. To remove all these labels, uncheck this box.
- Show tool tips: Ordinarily, the map produces tool tips when you hover over one of its navigation tools. If for some reason you don’t want these tips to appear, uncheck this box.
- Remember that the easiest way to return these options to their default settings is just to click the Reset Layers button in the upper right-hand corner of the map.
MAIN WEBSITE LINKS: if you click and nothing happens, then your pop-up blocker may be activated. Do CTRL+CLICK to open the Preserve or Friends websites.
RESET LAYERS: Removes the map layers you’ve most recently chosen and returns to the default layers, but KEEPS your same zoom.
RESET EXTENT: Goes to full-screen zoom but KEEPS your most recently selected map layers.
Info Window
- By clicking the up and down arrows to the right of the thumbnail photo, you can view all photos associated with this place.
- Click thumbnail photos to see an enlarged version (opens in new browser window)
- Click MORE INFO to see a page on the main website with additional information about this place
- You can hide the text or hide the entire window by clicking the ARROWS.
Map Contents
Feature buttons:
1. WAYFINDING
- Boundaries
- Paths
- Roads
- Parking
- UW buildings
- Visitor amenities
- 360-degree image panoramas (see all here)
- Have you seen these? points of interest
2. NATURAL FEATURES
- Topography (height and steepness of land)
- Hydrology (water features)
- Soils
- 1834 Witness trees (from original survey)
- 1939 vegetation
- Pesent vegetation
- Future vegetation (restoration activity)
3. HUMAN LANDSCAPES
- Indian habitation sites (see article)
- Indian mounds
- Vanished historic features
- Surviving historic features
- Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association
4. AIR PHOTO
- 2004 Image (use the SLIDER to fade the aerial photo over the map)
- Historic animation tool (click PLAY to see land changes from 1927-1999)
- Analytical comparison tool (compares any of 14 layers of aerial photos, vegetation, or soil images, use the SLIDER to fade between layers)
Map Sources and Citations
Data Sources
We gratefully acknowledge all the individuals and institutions whose work has contributed data without which the layers of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve’s interactive map would could not have been created.
Base Map Information
Many of the details on the base map were derived by the UW Cartographic Laboratory team from map layers already developed for the on-line University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Map. Unless otherwise noted below, overlapping information shared between the Preserve map and the Campus Map can be assumed to have derived from the latter.
Topographic ElevationsThese were derived from the United States Geological Survey.
Hydrology Data
These are based on the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Soils Data
These were downloaded from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
1834 Witness Trees
These are based on the original land survey of the United States as conducted under the Land Ordinance of 1785 and its statutory successors. In Wisconsin, the original notebooks of the surveyors are maintained by the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, and have been made available in digital format by the UW-Madison Library System as part of the university’s digital collections. There is a superb website devoted to these essential historical records at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/, and we have quoted from its discussion of the land survey in our own treatment of survey points relating to the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
1939 Vegetation
This is based on the indispensable survey of Wisconsin land use that was conducted in the 1930s as the “Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory,” otherwise known as “the Bordner Survey.” These land cover maps, originally published on a township-by-township basis, have been digitized by the UW-Madison Libraries and are accessible on-line.
Present and Future Vegetation
These maps are based on the ones published in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, which were based in turn on maps created by the Biological Subcommittee of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee, which were based in turn on maps published in the Kline-Bader Report of 1996.
Indian Habitation Sites and Indian Mounds
These layers are based on the Wisconsin Historic Properties Database, Archaeological Site Inventory, Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation and Public History. Archival and field research conducted by George Christiansen III resulted in significant enhancements to the Archaeological Site Inventory database for the UW-Madison campus.
Vanished and Surviving Historic Features
Based in part on the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Master Plan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Routes
W.S. Kinne, Annual Report, Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, April 1905, ” Madison and the Four Lakes Region.”
2004 Orthophoto
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aerial Map, 2004, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; the digital version of this was obtained from the Environmental Remote Sensing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Historic Aerial Photos
Initial preparation of historic orthophotos was performed by Dr. Sam Batzli, Environmental Remote Sensing Center, UW-Madison.
The aerial photos from 1927 and 1937 are from the personal collection of Tom Brock, whose contributions to this and many other features of the map and website are gratefully acknowledged.
“Air map, Picnic Point, Property of Edward J. Young, Madison Wis., Made by Aerial Photographic Service Inc., Chicago,” [c. 1927], in collection of Facilities Planning and Management, UW-Madison.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin July 6, 1937, WU-7-585” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin August 8, 1940, WU9-A-81” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin September 25,1949, WU-3F-150” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin July 12, 1955, WU-1P-57” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin September 11, 1962, WU-3CC-262” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
United States Department of Agriculture. “Dane County Wisconsin May 8,1968, WU-2JJ-92” [aerial photograph]. 1:20,000. Madison, WI : UW-Madison, Arthur H. Robinson Map Library.
UW-Madison, aerial map 1996, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
UW-Madison, aerial map 1999, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Photo (L to R): Professor Bill Cronon and Melanie McCalmont with Cartography Lab map team–Rob Roth, Andy Woodruff, and Joel Przybylowski (Professor Mark Harrower absent).
