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Technically oriented "smartphone features" certainly include creating photos that also contain location stored in the form of GPS coordinates in exif metadata<\/A>. This feature can be set on every modern smartphone equipped with GPS and a camera.<\/P>If phones produce such photos, GIS users may ask - How to use them? The answer for the ArcGIS Online platform is this blog<\/A> by Bernie Szukalski.<\/P>The options described by Bernie deserve a supplementary comment:<\/P><\/P>- Add a .zip file with photos<\/STRONG><\/P> This option is very simple and straightforward. It is enough to pack photos into an archive .zip file and load them into the AGOL folder. A hosted feature layer (HFL) of point geometry will be created, which takes the location of points from the photos and adds the photo as an attachment. This method is not for users with so-called public license, because it creates an HFL.<\/P><\/P>- Create a Story Map Tour by loading photos from Flickr<\/STRONG><\/P> Bernie uses here a simple Story Map Tour environment. He creates a story map and then can use the web map created during this process also outside the story map. The map contains a point layer with photos as attachments. Generating a story map is indeed very simple, but it is preceded by preparation. The user must have a user account on Flickr, where they must upload photos and also configure this account so that data are publicly available and the exif location is preserved on Flickr.<\/P><\/P>- Create a Story Map Tour<\/SPAN> by gradually loading photos from a computer directory<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P>This option is simpler compared to the previous one because it does not require Flickr. However, points with photos are created gradually - for each point a photo is inserted (drag and drop) directly from the Windows directory into the web application panel of the story map. Like the previous method, it creates as a secondary effect a web map that can be used also outside the story map.<\/P><\/P>Bernie also describes the possibility of using Flickr to create a KML file, which can also be loaded into AGOL. The disadvantages of this method are obvious.<\/P><\/P>And what is the ideal that we still miss in AGOL? Drag and drop selected photos from a computer directory directly into the web map.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/BODY><\/HTML>
If phones produce such photos, GIS users may ask - How to use them? The answer for the ArcGIS Online platform is
The options described by Bernie deserve a supplementary comment:<\/P>
- Add a .zip file with photos<\/STRONG><\/P> This option is very simple and straightforward. It is enough to pack photos into an archive .zip file and load them into the AGOL folder. A hosted feature layer (HFL) of point geometry will be created, which takes the location of points from the photos and adds the photo as an attachment. This method is not for users with so-called public license, because it creates an HFL.<\/P><\/P>- Create a Story Map Tour by loading photos from Flickr<\/STRONG><\/P> Bernie uses here a simple Story Map Tour environment. He creates a story map and then can use the web map created during this process also outside the story map. The map contains a point layer with photos as attachments. Generating a story map is indeed very simple, but it is preceded by preparation. The user must have a user account on Flickr, where they must upload photos and also configure this account so that data are publicly available and the exif location is preserved on Flickr.<\/P><\/P>- Create a Story Map Tour<\/SPAN> by gradually loading photos from a computer directory<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P>This option is simpler compared to the previous one because it does not require Flickr. However, points with photos are created gradually - for each point a photo is inserted (drag and drop) directly from the Windows directory into the web application panel of the story map. Like the previous method, it creates as a secondary effect a web map that can be used also outside the story map.<\/P><\/P>Bernie also describes the possibility of using Flickr to create a KML file, which can also be loaded into AGOL. The disadvantages of this method are obvious.<\/P><\/P>And what is the ideal that we still miss in AGOL? Drag and drop selected photos from a computer directory directly into the web map.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/BODY><\/HTML>
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