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Web Map

The Web Map is Blue Light Maps in the browser, at maps.bluelightmaps.com. Use it to plan ahead and share a picture: cordons, RVPs and access routes for an event, flood extents and search sectors, live resources, road closures and drive-time reach areas.

Find your way around

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Everything lives on the ribbon across the top of the map. Each tab groups one kind of job:

TabWhat it’s for
HomeFind a place, change the base map, name the map and set its start view. See The Home tab.
DrawPins, lines, areas and cordons, and the drawing options (keep tool active, snapping). Shown while you’re editing.
DataLayers, the data table, imports, live resources and road closures. See Layers and data.
InsightsDirections, reach areas and measuring distances. See Directions, reach and measuring. Some subscriptions only.
ClosuresAdding and managing road closures, for teams that look after them. See Managing road closures. Some subscriptions only.
ShareWho can see and edit, links, downloads, printing and images. See Sharing and exporting.

Undo, Redo, Edit map, Save and Help sit in the header, top right.

Edit a map

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  1. Open the map and choose Edit map (Ctrl+E, or Cmd+E on a Mac).
  2. Use the Draw tab to add shapes. See Drawing shapes.
  3. Save (Ctrl+S). Nobody else sees your changes until you do.

Help inside the map

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Choose Help (the ? in the header, or Ctrl+H) at any time. It shows:

  • the tools of the tab you have open, with a line on what each is for
  • every keyboard shortcut
  • the pages of this guide that go with that tab, opened right there in the map

The first time you open each tab, its page of this guide opens by itself. Close it and it won’t come back; it’s always under Help if you want it again.

In this guide

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