Chapter 11. How to Use the Neighborhood Map

To see a map of Lewiston Gardens, click the Map link near the top left corner of the home page:

The neighborhood map

Note

For the safety and privacy of Lewiston Gardens residents, this manual does not show the Nextdoor Lewiston Gardens website. Pictures in this manual are from the Nextdoor Alta Hill website. Nextdoor Alta Hill is an example website that Nextdoor made to use for tests and demonstrations. The information on Nextdoor Alta Hill is not real.

You will see your house at the middle of the map.

The map uses different colors to show which neighbors are Nextdoor members:

You can use one of two procedures to move around on the map:

To make a section of the map smaller (to see more of the neighborhood), click the minus sign ( - ) at the left side of the map. To make a section of the map larger (to see less of the neighborhood), click the plus sign ( + ) at the left side of the map.

To see a street view of a specified address:

  1. Click the yellow person icon at the left side of the map (above the + sign) and drag it to an address. A street view of that approximate address will come into view.

  2. You can move around in the street view as you do on the map. (Click the symbols in the circle near the top left corner of the map, or click and drag on the map.) If you see white arrow symbols on a street, you can click an arrow to move the street view in the direction of the arrow.

  3. To close the street view and go back to the map, click the white X at the top right corner of the street view.

You can use the map to see which Nextdoor member lives at an address, or to invite a neighbor to join Nextdoor Lewiston Gardens.

To see which Nextdoor Lewiston Gardens member lives at an address, click an address shown in green. A form that shows the member(s) at that address will come into view:

Click an address on the map

You can click the Send message link below a member's name to send them a private message. (For help with private messages, see Chapter 8, How to Read and Send Messages, Section 8.3, “Private Messages”.)

Note

To close the form that shows members at that address, click the X at the top right corner of the form.

You can also use the map to invite a neighbor to join Nextdoor Lewiston Gardens:

  1. Click an address on the map.

    1. If you click a green address, a form that shows members at that address will come into view. If more neighbors live at that address, click the Missing someone? Invite them to join! link at the bottom of the form.

  2. An Invite a neighbor form will come into view.

  3. Click in the Email box. Type the neighbor's email address.

    Note

    To use the map to invite a neighbor, you must type the neighbor's email address. If you do not know the neighbor's email address, you can invite them by postcard or flyer.

  4. If you want to include a message for the neighbor, click in the Message (optional) box. Type a message.

  5. To invite the neighbor, click the green [Submit] button.

    Note

    If you do not want to invite the neighbor to join Nextdoor Lewiston Gardens, click the [Cancel] button.

  6. Nextdoor will send an invitation to the neighbor by email. If the neighbor accepts the invitation, you will get credit for the invitation.