The program is designed to behave based upon the options the user has selected with the Map Options button at the bottom of the map page:

• Set map marker size to small, mideium, or large.
• Clear Free Gold Map's cookies from one's web browser.
• Set maximum records to display, which helps reduce the speed of map marker placement.
• Keep markers on the map when they scroll off the map's view area. Setting this option to "No" causes the markers outside the view port to be removed. This decreases the memory usage, and increases speed, of the user's browser. "No" also means the map markers must be retrieved from the database again if the user moves the map back into the previous view port.
• Refresh the map manually with the Refresh button on the map page, or have the map updated automatically when the map area changes. The exception is when the user selects which mineral(s) to retrieve, then clicks the "Go" button on the Select Mineral(s) page.
• How much data to retrieve for each map marker. These data are displayed when the user "clicks on" each marker.