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The “Interactive Journey” section has several levels of information. Follow the links provided below to get a brief preview of how this section works. You should already have seen notices that you will need the QuickTime player to see and use the panoramas and audio/video sequences on the site. Please install this now if you didn’t earlier, so you can view the panoramas and audio/video movies.
The first Interactive Journey digital terrain map provides rollover selections for 8 different sub-watershed or geographic regions. Each of these contains links to several unique panorama locations spread around the sub-watershed. For the purposes of this demonstration we will look at only three of over 40 Interactive Journey panorama views available in the entire watershed.
Select the “Asay Creek” section first at the southern end of the watershed map.
http://www.uppersevier.net/ijourney/asay/asay.html You will see a much closer and detailed interactive digital terrain map with five different locations identified.
Click on the spot identified as “Aspen in Lava Bed.” http://www.uppersevier.net/ijourney/asay/aspnlava.html The next page that appears will have a panorama you can move around in to see the entire 360 degree view from the spot where the camera was located. Scroll on the panorama with your cursor to see the effect.
Please click on the “Panorama Viewing Instructions” link below the panorama for specific detailed instructions about how to interact with the panoramas.
There are three symbols active on the bottom controller bar of the panorama window. Rolling over these symbols with your mouse tells you that the “-” symbol lets you zoom out and the “+” symbol let you zoom in on the panorama. The “?” symbol lets you see where “hot spots” are located in the panorama. The other inactive symbols don’t have a function at this time.
Click on the “?” or “Show Hot Spots” symbol now and you will see transparent background colors. As you roll over these “hot spots” you will see text in the bottom controller bar providing information about the hot spot. You will be able to click and jump to two additional panorama pages, Aspen Mirror Lake, and Midway Valley. Another hot spot identifies Hiway 14, which is visible. Note that these text indicators come up in the controller bar at the bottom of the panorama whether or not you have made the hot spots visible.
Click on the “View the Full Screen Cubical Panorama of the Aspen in Lava Bed” text link at the left of the panorama. You will see another page come up that will fill your screen with a more impressive cubic panorama from the same spot. These “cubic pans” let you see more view up into the sky and down at the ground. Use the keyboard “shift” and “control” keys to zoom in on these cubic panoramas to see more detail. This “cubic” technology became available during the summer of 2001 and we have made these panoramas an optional view, without navigation link features, except in the Sanford Fire project where they are used more often as the main interface. Please close the cubic panorama page.
Click on the “Visit Aspen-Mirror Lake” “hot spot” in the regular panorama. Another panorama page appears that was originally located on the Asay Creek detailed terrain map. Jumping from within a panorama to another panorama is an alternative way to move around this part of the watershed. Notice that there is a navigation indicator at the top of the panorama to tell where you are currently located. The link back to “Asay Creek” and to the “Interactive Journey” are also hot links to allow you to move backwards in the navigation structure of the web site one or more steps at a time.
All of the panoramas in the Interactive Journey section of the web site provide general information that is not specific to particular resource issues. The Resource Issues section, to be described later, contains many more specific issue related “Hot Spots” and also many more panoramas. Only a few of the Interactive Journey panoramas have related stories at this time. However, these can be added as the web site is updated and grows. This Aspen-Mirror Lake panorama happens to be one that does have a related link story.
Click on the “Free Fishing Day at Aspen-Mirror Lake, 2002” related link. Now you can read text and see pictures that describe this event. At the top of the page you will notice that Free Fishing Day is an annual ongoing event that is also noted in a cross link to the “Calendar of Events” which is in the Community Center.
Please click the text link “Aspen-Mirror Lake panorama” at the top of the story page to return to this panorama page. Then move the panorama around to find the hot spots.
Click on the hot spot to “Visit Mammoth Cave”. Again you will notice that there are hot spots inside this new panorama, “Related Links” to other documents and references and another link to a cubical panorama of the cave.
Click on the “View the Full Screen Cubical Panorama of Mammoth Cave” text link now. This cubic view really gives a good view of how unique this technology can be, allowing you to see the top of the ceiling and the floor. Use the keyboard “shift” and “control” keys to zoom in to look at details on the floor, wall or ceiling. These panoramas have been compressed for the web. There is a new technology, which makes it possible to create higher resolution images that would allow you to zoom in to even much greater detail. This feature has not yet been implemented on this web site. When you have explored this cubic image please close the cubic page.
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