====== Using the Mersea oil spill demo wiki ======

===== Navigating =====


Each page in the wiki has an outline style organization. Use the Table of Contents menu at upper right to move around the current page.

The pages may also contain:
  * internal links, which lead to other pages
  * external links, which lead to other web pages
  * links to files containing data, documents, presentations, etc.


To navigate among the pages already visited, use the Trace: line at upper left.

===== Downloading files =====

Links to files should be clear from the context or the icon used. The usual methods for downloading from web pages will work:
  * Right-click on the link, and select "Save link as" (or similar, depending on your browser and language)
  * In some browsers, left-clicking on the link will present you a dialog box with the choice of opening or downloading (saving). 

===== Uploading files =====

To upload files, you must be logged in using your userid and password.

  - Navigate to the page where the link to the file will be located.
  - Click on the <Edit> button for the relevant section (or just choose <Edit page> button to access the whole page).
  - Move the cursor to where you want the link to appear
  - Click on the <Add images and other files>. This pops up a dialog box for uploading files and naming the link. 
  - Use the Browse facility to find your local file and hit <Upload>. 
  - The file will be added to the list in the dialog box. Click on the filename to enter the link into the text space.
  - The cursor located for entering the link text. Enter the link text as desired. 
  - Done!



Note that images are shown full size in the wiki page, with the link text shown as a tooltip. Other files are shown as icons with the link text. See the three examples below.




This is an uploaded image:  {{charybdis.png|The sea monster Charybdis}}                

This is a document file: {{wp12.3_demo_plans.doc|Mersea oil spill demo plan document}}     

This is a zipped kml data file: {{oildrift5.kml.zip|met.no oil spill 5 kml}}

===== GoogleEarth data files (kml) =====

We will test the use of GoogleEarth as a means of diplaying the oil spill forecasts for a broad range of users. The forecast providers will upload GoogleEarth-ready files (in kml or kmz format). Users may then download them as described above and load them into GoogleEarth locally. 

Note: [[kml_workaround|DokuWiki and kml]]