Side-By-Side Tool: The Simplest way to Compare and Contrast

Welcome back!  Looking forward to sharing the Side-By-Side tool, available to you in EarthPoint.  Unless an instructor had two rollers in their class, they were not able to compare two maps to one another.  Now featured as a tool on our exclusive maps, the Side-By-Side tool is available to instructors and their students in helping make connections across the curriculum

Pictured here I've chosen two maps from our All-Purpose and Physical Geography Content Areas: World Infrastructure and Human Footprint, respectively.  Clicking the Side-By-Side button toggles the second navigation panel to assist you in choosing your second map

Diagrams or labels, when drawn on one side are not duplicated to the other side automatically.  However, if clicking to zoom on one map, we'll notice that the other map follows.  The same will occur if navigating by the minimap or hand tool.  If desired, we may click on the "Link" button that is located next to the "Side-by-Side" button on the toolbar will make the two maps independent from one another.

To reduce clutter on the screen and to have more freedom in viewing and panning, we simply just hit the Esc key to toggle both side panels off and on when we need them, showing a beautiful comparison of world roadways and highways to ecological degradation.

Try it out on your own for two weeks!

Keep an eye out in the EarthPoint community for tips from us or other teachers at our website, and feel free to explore many fascinating combinations of maps to use the side-by-side tool with, such as Elections 2004 with Elections 2008 or US History sets such as Great Depression Charts and Graphs.  For those that are daring enough, combine the use of both Side-By-Side with Scratch Tool, having a total of 4 maps displayed on the screen at once!