After you’ve signed in to Cartographer you will arrive at a page called Home. This is the centre of a workspace that your company or charity uses to collect and manage all of its monitoring data:
Your home page contains quick links to access the surveys and maps in your workspace. It also contains a button to let you quickly add a new survey in one click. However, the left-hand sidebar is your main tool for getting around. (If you prefer the keyboard, see Quick Navigation with the Omnibar.)
The left-hand sidebar is present on every page in the workspace and provides your primary way of navigating the site. You can click the burger icon (three horizontal lines) in the top left to toggle the sidebar on and off:
The sidebar sometimes starts off hidden to save space on smaller screens. You may need to click the burger icon to make it visible:
The contents of the sidebar will vary from workspace to workspace. Here are a few common items to expect:
Most search fields on the site, such as the ones on survey lists and member lists, support the same search syntax. If you don't need anything fancy, type a few words and Cartographer will find items that contain all of them. For more precise searches, you can combine words in the following ways:
| To find… | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Items containing all of several words | Words separated by spaces | thames gurnell |
| Items containing either of two words | or between the words |
thames or gurnell |
| An exact phrase (words next to one another, in order) | Double quotes around the phrase | "river adur" |
| Items that don't contain a word or phrase | A minus sign before the word or phrase | -gurnell or -"river adur" |
| Combinations of the above | Parentheses to group words together | (adur gurnell) or (lea moggridge) |
A few things to bear in mind:
Thames, thames and THAMES all give the same results.gurn finds “Gurnell”.survey also finds “surveys” and “surveying”. Punctuation is ignored, and so are very common words like “the” and “of”.or takes priority over spaces: thames gurnell or adur finds items containing “thames” and also either “gurnell” or “adur”. Use parentheses if you mean something else: (thames gurnell) or adur.OR, AND and NOT in capitals if you prefer. AND is the same as a space, and NOT is the same as a minus sign.