Help
* We will create and update help documentation throughout the testing process, if you want to add anything, ask questions, or find any errors, please send us feedback.
How to Search
How to Move around the map
Viewing a Building's Information
Viewing Large Image
*click anywhere outside the image to close
Location & Driving Directions
Traveling from Denver International Airport
Fort Collins is located 65 miles north of Denver International Airport. There are several car rental agencies located at Denver International Airport.
- Take Pena Boulevard to I-70 west, to I-25 north, and follow directions to the Admissions Welcome Center provided above.
OR
- Take Pena Boulevard to E-470 Toll Road north, to I-25 north, and follow directions to campus provided below.
Shuttle service to Fort Collins can be arranged by contacting Shamrock Airport Express
at (970) 482-0505.
University Welcome Center
- Exit I-25 at Prospect Road (Exit 268).
- Travel west on Prospect Road approximately 4 miles to College Avenue.
- Turn right (north) onto College Avenue.
- Continue approximately 0.7 miles and turn left (west) onto Laurel Street.
- Travel west on Laurel Street to Howes Street/Oval Drive.
- Turn left (south) onto Oval Drive. The road will bear right as a one way street. The Admissions Welcome Center, located in Ammons Hall, is the second building on the right.
- Parking permits - The lots surrounding the center are zoned and all spaces (other than short term loading zones) require a a Visitor Parking Permit (available at the reception desk in the Admissions Welcome Center) from 7:30am-4:00 pm Monday through Friday, except for University Holidays.
- Nearby parking lots - To access the parking lots near the center, take the first right-hand turn (about 100 feet after you bear right onto the Oval), into a small "A" parking strip. Proceed west into the larger parking lot southwest of Ammons Hall. If that lot is full, proceed further west into the next parking lot.
Moby Arena
- From Interstate 25, exit at Prospect Road (#268).
- Travel west on Prospect approximately 5 miles to Shields Street (passing major intersections at Timberline Road, Lemay Avenue and College Avenue).
- At Shields Street, turn right (north) and look for campus on your right.
- Continue approximately one half mile and turn right (east) on Elizabeth Street into the Moby Arena parking lot, which is open to visitors.
- Parking zones - The Moby Lot is zoned and all spaces (other than short term loading zones) require a permit from 7:30am-4:00 pm Monday through Friday, except for University Holidays. A permit for the Moby lot can be purchased at the automated kiosk located on the SW side of the lot. More information on purchasing a visitor permit is available on parking.colostate.edu.
- Special events may charge for parking in the Moby lot.
CSU Oval
- From Interstate 25, exit at Prospect Road (#268).
- Travel west on Prospect approximately 4 miles to College Avenue (passing major intersections at Timberline Road and Lemay Avenue).
- At College Avenue, turn right (north).
- Continue north approximately three-quarters of a mile to Laurel Street, turn left (west), and travel west one-quarter mile to Howes Street (the first stop light).
- The CSU Oval is south of the intersection of Laurel and Howes.
- For parking, continue to the next intersection, Meldrum Street, and turn left into the Lory Student Center parking lot.
- Parking at a meter - The Lory Student Center parking lot includes metered spaces that are enforced from 7:30a.m to 4:00pm., Monday through Friday, except for University Holidays and semester breaks. Visitor permits are not valid at meters during enforced hours - the posted fee must be paid during all enforced hours.
- "A" zone parking - The "A" zone spaces require a permit to park from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (except for specially signed portions of "A" zones which are enforced until 7:00p.m.), except for University Holidays and semester breaks. Information on purchasing a visitor permit is available on parking.colostate.edu.
Lory Student Center
- From Interstate 25, exit at Prospect Road (#268).
- Travel west on Prospect approximately 4 miles to College Avenue (passing major intersections at Timberline Road and Lemay Avenue).
- At College Avenue, turn right (north).
- Continue north approximately three-quarters of a mile to Laurel Street, turn left (west), and travel west three-quarters of a mile to Meldrum Street (the second stop light), and turn left into the Lory Student Center parking lot.
- Parking at a meter - The Lory Student Center parking lot includes metered spaces that are enforced from 7:30a.m to 4:00pm., Monday through Friday, except for University Holidays and semester breaks. Visitor permits are not valid at meters during enforced hours - the posted fee must be paid during all enforced hours.
- "A" zone parking - The "A" zone spaces require a permit to park from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (except for specially signed portions of "A" zones which are enforced until 7:00p.m.), except for University Holidays and semester breaks. Information on purchasing a visitor permit is available on parking.colostate.edu.
Parking and Street Maps
Parking Services
All vehicles parked on the main campus musts have a valid permit displayed or pay
a meter. All zones are enforced as posted.
Street Map
Beta Information and Updates
Notes
Thank you for all the feedback and helping us out at this early stage. Our goal is to make this new map something that everyone will find useful, from incoming students, to outsiders. Our goal is to refresh the code a few more times, while we integrate all the feedback and any features or enhancements that were planned and had time to finish.
Beta Process
This is a preview release of our new maps website. It requires javascript and uses the latest Google Maps APIs to provide more interactivity than the previous map website. We plan to maintain a link to the current version of the maps website for at least 6 months after this new version launches, or possibly indefinitely depending on feedback from the university community.
Once we are satisfied with the user experience and content of the "private" beta version, we will move to a public beta launch that will be linked from the current maps page. Then at some later date, hopefully by the beginning of spring semester 2011 we will make this new version the main version at maps.colostate.edu.
Thank you for your help!
Sincerely,
CSU's Web Department
Updates
- 2010-09-28: Beta 2 Launch (Change Log)
- 2010-07-13: Beta 1 Launch
- 2010-07-12: Map no longer does a full refresh when using the "Home" link
- 2010-07-09: Building information request form added to individual building info windows
- 2010-07-09: Feedback form enabled
* some of the information below may be out of date at various times
Upcoming Improvements during Beta 2
- Bookmark-capable permalinks to any given building, category, or page
- Larger and Better Quality Images for Buildings (Please help us in gathering content)
- View larger version of building images
- StreetView
- Agressive Caching
- Lazy Loading (balanced with great User Experience and Responsiveness)
- Continual Performance Optimizations
Future Enhancements Beyond Beta 2
- Mobile specific version suited for smartphone form factors
- Google Map Directions from one building to another.
- Full-Screen Mode
- Tours - Follow a set of markers (With optional StreetView)
- Multiple Images per Building (To aid with future tour enhancements)
Current Issues The are being Addressed As You Read This
- Limited Caching
- Missing or Low-Quality Images for Buildings and Parking Lots
- Missing, Sparse, or Invalid information for buildings
- Chrome has slight delay on dragging when CSU Map overlay is visible
- Internet Explorer 7/8 performance needs improvement
- Internet Explorer 7/8 issues with sending feedback
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Please submit feedback if your question isn't answered here. This is a work in progress, and will be updated as new feedback is received. This Beta FAQ will be visible only during the beta testing period, it is a collection of unofficial answers.
Also, note that we are working to gather as much content as we can, but this will take some time to correct any errors, and gather new building locations, information, and photos. Thank you for all those who have sent us feedback regarding content of building information. Now that much of the initial work on functionality has been worked on, we can begin to gather content at a greater pace.
- Why are you redoing the maps website? What is the "mission" or goal?
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- To help people navigate their way around campus, and locate where they need to be.
- To Give visitors a way to visualize the campus so they can waste less time asking for directions.
- To give the current faculty and staff a way to more easily find where their meetings are located.
- To help students get to their class without being late.
- To help people find places they would otherwise not have visited on campus.
* If you have any other goals you'd like us to incorporate in enhancing the maps website, please feel free to send us feedback.
- What will happen to the current maps website?
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The plan was to replace it with this new version, however we are listening to feedback and may keep it online as an archive or possibly as a section within the new website.
- Why are you suggesting people not use Internet Explorer?
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We are working to provide the best experience across all browsers, and our department works to support web standards, but also strive to support all major browsers with the lateset two versions (IE 7/8, FF 3.0/3.5, Chrome 5/6, Safari 4/5, and Opera 10+) - therefore, we will be supporting IE as best we can, and hopefully with an experience on par with the latest browser versions. However, during the early stages of development Internet Explorer performed poorly. Google has made some great improvements with their core code-base, and we are working to continually improve our code base as well. The experience is much better with IE 8.0 and we have removed the notice unless IE 7.0 or earlier can be detected. Also, if you like Internet Explorer you definitely should look at the IE9 Beta - it really is smokin' fast and mostly awesome, but of course we have to live with them not fully supporting the latest CSS standards, which is usually the grumblings that people have regarding IE (^_-)
- Will there be a mobile version?
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We are working in parallel on our mobile offering for the maps as well as the main university properties. We are looking at building a web-based version instead of specific Droid/iPhone apps in order to bring it to as wide an audience as possible. If we determine that there is a large need for a native app experience we will re-evaluate this decision. We will release information on the beta version of the mobile website in the near future.
- Why do you have building X located at Y - It's name has changed, or different location?
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We are working to organize and aggregate all the building and services information from a variety of sources, and we mainly wanted to get the functionality of this new site working and in place so that we can then focus on gathering and curating all the content necessary to have a successful launch. Thank you for sending in errors, additions, and updates.
- Something has been left off or should be removed from the CSU map overlay?
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We are evaluating whether we should keep the CSU Overlay visible by default as Google has improved their map information quite a bit since the initial work on this project. We are currently testing having the CSU overlay hidden by default in this beta release.
- Why does something behave strangely in my browser?
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We are continually working to make sure all browsers behave and perform equally as well with as few issues as possible. Please continue to send any feedback.
- Why does building X show as still under construction?
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We are working to update all finished construction projects.
- Why is the green marker for Building X not accurate?
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We are working to make sure all building locations are accurate.
- What about the South Campus?
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We are working to include the South Campus as its own category.
- Why are the parking lots not labeled with permit types?
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We will work with Parking Services to get as much detail as we can for parking items.
- What do you mean by "Departments" in the category list?
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We are looking to move the buildings to better named categories.
- How do I find a building without knowing the exact name?
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We are looking at adding keywords and other properties of data to make searching more accurate.
- What about bike racks?
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We will add this to the wish list.
Building Resources
We will revist what other information would make sense to present at this location, possibly this is where the old map will reside as well as other information.
Floor Plans
Off Campus CSU Locations
