Good morning,
I have a set of hosted feature layers on multiple maps, each for specific purposes. We've been collecting and storing all our points within those maps. Years ago when we first started using AGOL for field collection, we thought having everything in bulk would be an issue, but on the contrary it's actually been beneficial since we can now see whether or not the area of interest has already been collected or not. Another concern was, the web map getting too cluttered with points that it may affect performance. I can't confirm whether or not it's now starting to affect performance, since I have seen some small discrepancies of the layers taking a little time too load when scrolling through the map. I've customized the view scale to help ease this potential issue, but I may or may not still notice small discrepancies that may or may not be related to the bulk of data building up over time. My inital idea for maintaining our data was, collect on an annual basis then start with a fresh set of hosted feature layers. Few years later I've yet to do that and are still using the original feature layers we started with, that have worked very well, but are now building up. I went through the options of creating a "copy" of the feature layers, but couldn't find anything under Content tab other that within the Map View under the "duplicate" option. I wanted to create a copy of the feature layers and now that we can select multiple points in the map viewer, select everything, delete, then save it as a "default" clean version of my feature layers. Then make a copy of that clean "default" annually and store our data that way, that's the idea atleast. Now to my question, is creating the copy through the Map Viewer "duplicate" option the only way of making copies of feature layers in AGOL? Thanks
