• Zoom In/Zoom Out - Use the '+' and '-' buttons to zoom in and out to next/previous level respectively. You may also click on the zoom bar to directly go to a particular zoom level.

• Selection Zoom/Rubber Zoom - This is another type of zoom facility where you can select the region you want to zoom in to. You can select a particular rectangular region by dragging your mouse and that particular area is used as zoom window.                        

• Pan - Use the hand symbol to move the viewing window. Double clicking on any location on the map recenters the map to the clicked point.

• Zoom to Full Extents - This is a shortcut button to go to the full map view. Clicking on this restores the map screen to the initial position with entire map visible.

• Search Tool (English/Marathi) - Searching has never been so enjoable before. Using this tool, you can do a text search on one or more layers to locate a particular feature. To do so, just type the text you want to search into the input text box provided in the toolbar and press enter. You may select a particular layer to search in. If you dont specify a layer, by default all layers are searched. The results are displayed in a separate window with links to each result. Clicking on the result link takes you to that location on the map.

This is not all, to add to its functionality this tool is also capable of searching places and people's names in marathi. Also, you don't need to have had any marathi typing training previously. Just type words as you would spell it in english. And great news is that typing mistakes are tolerated by this feature, so you can select your required information from a set of results that appear to match your requirement.

• Query Tool - This tool is provided to retrieve attributes associated with a particular entity on the map. After selecting the query tool, click on any entity on the map and you will get information associated with it in a separate window on map. If there are multiple active layers at the point where you click, you will see results from all such layers.

• Shortest Path - This tool helps you in finding the shortest path to the place you intend to travel. It also provides an apprximatly calculated distance that you'll need to cover in this travel. Using this tool is also ease, you just have to select the points for which the shortest path is to be calculated.

• Custom Query - This tool helps you to define Ad-hoc queries as per your preferences. All you have to do is select some values from a list that drops down from the select box. Its an interesting feature that'll help you understand the basic attributes of the query facility of this GIS.

• Language Switching -  Navigate across places in your own language. This tool  is good news for  all the native people of this area who don't understand English, and for others its pride. Just click on this tool and you'll see the entire interace turn from English to Marathi. Its not just the interface content that changes language, but also the labels on the map and even search can be done in marathi.

• Keymap - This is a small image that gives an overview of the entire map. For all those people unaware of the places' location in the city you can easily find out which part of the city you're currently navigating in.