Click to select areas in the 'Select Area' scrollable list. You can select one or more areas. Selected areas are highlighted in blue. To select or deselect multiple areas, hold down the 'Ctrl' button on your keyboard and click multiple areas. Click the 'Next' button when you are satisfied with your selection.
Filters may be available to help you make your selection. Filter areas will be listed by area type in the 'Select Filter' list. Click one or more filter areas in the list to select them and click the 'Apply Filter' icon. This will filter the list of areas in the 'Select Area' list - ensure that all of these are selected (i.e. highlighted in blue) and click the 'Next' button.
If you logged in you may have access to custom area selections. You can save, load or delete custom selections. To save a new selection, type a name into the 'Enter your custom area selection name' box and click the 'Save Areas' icon. To load an existing selection, click to select the desired selection in the 'Your saved area selections' box and click the 'Load Areas' icon. To delete a selection click to select the desired selection in the 'Your saved area selections' box and click the 'Delete Areas' icon.
You may have a 'Show Map' button available on this page. Click on this button to make your selection of areas using a map. The map legend lists the area types shown in the map. The toolbar located above the map gives access to tools for interacting with the map. From left to right, the tools are the following:
Zoom to original map extent. Click this icon to return to the original extent of the map.
Zoom in. Click the Zoom in icon and then click on the location in the map you wish to zoom in to. To zoom to an area, click and hold the mouse button while dragging a box around the area in the map that you wish to zoom to.
Zoom out. Click the Zoom out icon and then click on the location in the map you wish to zoom out from. To zoom out so that the geography fills an area of a particular size, click and hold the mouse button while dragging a box around the area in the map that you wish the geography to fill.
Select or deselect an area. Click the Select/Deselect icon and click an area in the map to select or deselect it. Selected areas in the map are shaded yellow while areas that are not selected are shaded white.
Clear current selection. Click the Clear current selection icon to deselect all areas in the map and return the map to its original size.
Identify an area. Click the Identify an area icon and then click an area in the map. The name of the area will be displayed above the map.
Show or hide background map. Click the Show or hide background map icon to toggle the background map.
You can hold your mouse pointer over the icons in the toolbar to find out what the tools do. Click an icon to use a tool. The icon for the active tool is highlighted in yellow. To pan the map click the yellow arrows located around the map border.
You can display additional layers in map to help you make your selection. These are listed below the map. Click a layer, or type of layer, and then click the 'Update Map' button. You can select multiple layers, or types of layer, by holding down the 'Ctrl' button on your keyboard and clicking different layers. Select None and then the 'Update Map' button if you wish to remove any additional layers from the map.
The areas that you have selected in the map will be displayed in the scrollable list below the map. You can click the 'Hide Map' button to hide the map. Click the 'Show Selected Items' button to display the area type and list of areas selected for your advanced data view. You can click the 'Hide Selected Items' button to hide this information.
Click the 'Next' icon when you are satisfied with your selection.
Click the 'Back' icon if you wish to return to the previous page.