About this Web Mapper It is an Internet based map server that hosts a world base map, and also additional map layers including Ramsar Sites and other wetlands of interest.

How do you use Mapper? You may use the world map to see where Ramsar Sites are located, and zoom in to any of the Sites using the viewing tools provided.

Upon clicking on the Mapper links, a map of the world will be displayed within a few seconds (depends on connection); to view the map you may need to download a Flash Player to enable navigation of the map. This need only be done once, subsequent visits to the mapper will not require this download.

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This is the the main method of navigation within the map:

TOOLBAR

the toolbar suspended above the map gives you several options;

- Zoom in / out (you may do a single click zoom in/out, or draw a bounding box to zoom to the specified extents)

- Hand tool (allows you to pan in any direction you want

- World button (automatically zooms you out to the full extent of the active layers selected in the drop down menu to the right)

- “i" button (click anywhere on the map with this button selected and it returns the associated layer information e.g. “France”)

- arrow button (click on a Ramsar Site dot to zoom direct to the Site and show the available information for the Site)

- Layers button (displays all layers currently active or available. You may turn layers on/off using this feature)

- Print button: allows you to print the currently displayed map

COUNTRY SELECTION DROP-DOWN BOX: zooms to selected country

SITE SELECTION DROP-DOWN BOX: displays all Ramsar Sites associated with the selected country

Below these boxes, and after a Site has been selected:

(i) a list of available resources is displayed for selection
(ii) Extra options are displayed to enable zooming to the world map, or to whole country, or Site, or link back again to the Ramsar Sites Database.

General notes: This global map hosts point locations of all Ramsar Sites and also all available polygon boundaries of Ramsar Sites. Wetlands International will include all available official boundaries of Ramsar Sites from Contracting Parties as they become available

The satellite image of the world used as a background layer at global scale for this Mapper has been obtained from the NASA website: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/