I need some high-level advice on how to maintain my ArcGIS Online maps. They began life in ArcMap. I uploaded them to ArcGIS Online and created a StoryMap on them. Now I need to do these operations:
- Add points to an existing layer (new dog parks).
- Expand the buffer layers to include the new points
- Add polygons to the existing polygon layer and modify the shape of some existing ones.
- Add a text field to the point layer, populate it, and change the symbology to use the field as a category.
What's the best way to go about all this? While still preserving the URL of my StoryMap! More - I'd like all my changes to flow through into the StoryMap maps wihtout my having to re-create them. Should I:
- Do all these edits directly in ArcGIS Online? (Can that even be done?)
- Copy the feature layer down to my desktop, make the changes in ArcMap, and synchronize back.
- Make the changes in my preserved .MXD file using ArcMap. Re-upload. (My fear is that my uploaded feature layer will no longer be connected - or connectable - to the StoryMap.)
- Do something else.
Experimenting with #2 it seems that I can do operation a) but none of the rest. For b) it looks like I must re-create the buffer layer (I see no way to extend the existing one), and new layers don't seem to upload. For d), my new text field did not upload.
I can figure out the button-pushing, but I need a steer as to which way to go. Thanks. - Steve
