The Interface Overall
This is mostly a viewing application, so all of the tools are geared toward getting you in, out, around, and back out of this map without junking up the process with widgets and doodads. Here is a map of the tools, of sorts...
...which illustrates what the different components of the interface are and what they do. Much of it will hopefully be intuitive, and you're welcome to hover over any icon to get a description of what would happen if you used it.
Navigation
Although there is a zoomer scale and an overview window that can be used to move around the map, most activity is built into the Tools menu...
if you are interested in full-resolution or GIS-ready downloads, please feel free to contact us...
Downloading
We are assuming that if anyone is interested in downloading copies of these images they do not want full-resolution .tif files (~300MB each). We're also assuming nobody will need these downloads to be GIS-ready and can instead be lower-resolution .png files that are not accompanied by a world file (don't worry if this makes no sense). As such, downloading works like this: in the image below, someone has just used the query tool (little 'i' button) and clicked on an image on the map. The Utility window then displays the image's file name ('wabashAerial_27.tif'). If you click this link you'll zoom into that image.
If you instead click 'details & download' to the right, you'll head to a page that generates a lower-res version of the image you clicked on (the entire image) as well as a link to that image's FGDC metadata.
Jump to a sample of this generated from the West/Lafayette image.
If We're Wrong...
That is, if you are interested in full-resolution or GIS-ready downloads of these images, please feel free to contact us and we'll arrange a way to get you the data.