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It’s here! We are very excited to share that the new LocalMaps Viewer 3.x in Experience Builder is available today. This Beta release is for ready for you to explore and apply in your own organisations and a good chance to see where the future of LocalMaps is headed. It’s been a long time coming and rest assured this is only the start – 2023 is going to be a pretty great year for LocalMappers all around! Now, where do we start… What’s New in the Viewer (well…everything) It’s a very fresh restart for the LocalMaps Viewer – leveraging Esri’s Experience Builder, you can make the most of the modern technology that underpins this application. New JS API 4.x benefits you can make the most of include: Fast loading – useful for rendering of district plan/property layers Lazy loading – for widget and asset-images Search performance optimization And then there are the widgets. As we have mentioned, we have prioritised the most used tools to pull into this beta. This will give you a taste of what’s coming as well as let you test out your own key workflows and provide you the opportunity to give feedback towards ongoing development of LocalMaps. Widgets Available: About Draw/Measure Layer List Legend Basemap Switch Map Print Search But nothing is better than giving it a go yourself, so keep an eye out on the Eagle LocalMaps Demo Site to try it out. LocalMaps Viewer 3.x (Beta) LocalMaps NZ Resource Centre We know 3.x is a bit to take in and with our 2023 plans we want to make sure you have all the info you need in one place. The new LocalMaps NZ Resource Centre has been created just for that – to give you all you need related to LocalMaps 3.x.   LocalMaps Resource Centre How to Guides   From key features, use cases and useful how to videos, this site is a one stop shop you should definitely bookmark. Of course, our trusty Geonet Page is still your go to location for ideas and voting on what’s coming. What’s coming up next. So, as you can see, there are a few tools still yet to be included in 3.x. Our development focus now is to ensure we can provide all functionality you have in v2.x and make that available (and improved based on the ideas you have submitted to you) in v3.1. In the next few months, we will be building new and improved 3.x widgets for Add Data, Attribute Table, Bookmark, Elevation Profile, Save, Select, Splash, Share and Zoom to Point. As some of these tools require a configuration element and backend, the LM administration app is also in progress. Watch this space for snippets as we go! Getting started with 3.x To get LocalMaps 3.x. Viewer, first thing is to check out the technical requirements . Good news is, it is not much is different than the requirements you have already met for v2.3.2. To learn more about implementation, contact your Eagle Account Manager. As this is in Beta, your feedback is more valuable than ever – so if you have ideas, thoughts, questions or comments of course, reach out to us at localmapssupport@eagle.co.nz or pop your ideas on our page here. Let us know what you think! Nga mihi, The Eagle Technology LocalMaps Team ... View more

Nga hararei koa! As we round off 2022, we would like to firstly thank all you LocalMappers out there for another great year – your feedback and support has helped us improve LocalMaps and hopefully gets you excited about the things coming very soon… While we had aimed to release a BETA of the Experience Builder LocalMaps 3.x Viewer, we realise that many organisations will likely only be looking to get their hands onto the new viewer in the New year – so we have lined up our release to get it front of mind in 2023. As a little holiday treat, we would like to share some sneak peeks / feature info on the Viewer which will be available from Feb 9th 2023. As we have mentioned in a few coms and presentations around the viewer, we have focused on the most important / well used components for our first beta release. So, while not ALL features or widgets are in there just yet, rest assured we have ticked off many requests to tide you over while we finish off the remaining widgets and crack into the admin UI for Version 3.1.   So here we go – some of our fav new features of the Viewer 3.x (Beta). JSAPI v4 Improvements including: Fast loading – useful for rendering of district plan/property layers Lazy loading – for widget and asset-images Search performance optimization NEW Draw / Measure (and…cue applause!) Taking inspiration from the Map Viewer Sketch capabilities, the new Draw / Measure has a fresh UI, taking in many enhancements from you all and designed to take you intuitively through annotation workflows. Widget UI Improvements – Across the LocalMaps widgets we have leveraged a combination of Esri's Calcite Design Language & Esri’s Experience Builder team's own UI components to develop a new look and feel in the Layers, Legend and Print tools. General Usability improvements e.g.Icon highlights for open widgets That is just a little taste of the Viewer 3.x Beta – coming to you in Feb. For now, have a wonderful Christmas and summer break and we will see you back in January! Nga Mihi, The LocalMaps Team     ... View more

Kia ora koutou, Thanks to those that came along to the Utilizing LocalMaps Webinar this week (see recording here if you missed it!). Hopefully it was useful to you all. One thing we talked about on the Webinar was the first Experience Builder Viewer that we will be releasing and the end of the year. To help us ensure your thoughts and feedback are captured, we would like to ask you to take a look at this survey. We have some specific workflow and functionality questions that would be great to get your input on (cough... Draw / Measure....cough). So if you would like to have your say on things like Draw / Measure, the UI of the viewer, searching workflows etc then please do take a look. We will close this survey in 2 weeks time on the 4th of Nov. Survey Link here:  https://arcg.is/0C0SqX  Hot tip: If you would like to get early access to the viewer... we definitely take into consideration an organisations input into surveys like the above. Ngā mihi, The LocalMaps Team ... View more

Hey LocalMappers, So great to see so many of you at the New Zealand Esri User Conference last week! Doesn't it make a difference being able to have a chat in person and discuss ideas. This is just a quick FYI note off the back of the LG session that many of you would have attended. We went through the widget list for the first release of LM 3.0 using Experience Builder and following this we had a few discussions with some of you about the Switch Map tool and why it was not on our list. The Switch Map had not come up in our customer analytics as a high use widget BUT we hear you and upon talking with the Development team, we are able to confirm we can bring that into our first 3.0 release for you. Don't say I don't look after ya 🙂  As a reminder (and for anyone who didnt nab a piccy at the session) - below is a list of the high priority widgets we will aim to include first. The remaining widget timelines will be available in the New Year. 3.0 (First release) Layer List Legend Print Basemap Draw/Measure Switch Map Search Splash Add Data About Thanks again for coming along to NZEUC 2022 and looking forward to providing you more updates in the coming months. If you have any other direct feedback around LocalMaps 3.0 or any of the 2.3.2 capabilities we showed at conference, please let us know at localmaps@eagle.co.nz  Cheers, The LocalMaps Team cc @KDCGIS @Connor_Spence  ... View more

Kia ora everyone, Hopefully you've had a chance to read our latest post giving you a Gallery 3.x (Beta) Sneak Peek which has been a large development focus for the past 6 months.  Well, today is the day - you can now get your hands on the Gallery 3.x (Beta) to implement in your own organisations. Check out this Gallery 3.x (Beta) StoryMap to see the key features, install details and invite for feedback.     Thank you to all our Early Adopters for your ideas, feedback and input into the development process. We will be looking for more Early Adopters for the Viewer 3.x coming out later this year (check out the above StoryMap for info) so let us know if you are keen to get involved. For details on how to get the Gallery set up, touch base with your Eagle Account Manager. Note: We have also just pushed out a 2.3.2 Patch (July 20th) that addresses a series of issues related to Draw/Measure widget and other workflows. Please contact your Adivsor or GIS Support if you would like to get a full list of fixed issues / you are awaiting for a specific fix and would like have the patch implemented.  The LocalMaps Team ... View more

Hi everyone, Over the last year or so you would have heard us talk about LocalMaps 3.x – the next generation capability that will take your Web GIS even further. Well, the first component from this next-gen release is nearly here. A new and revitalised Gallery. So here what you need to know before getting your hands on it. The Gallery is one part of LocalMaps we have not really altered too much since its inception (so naturally, it is well overdue for some revitalisation). We have listened to your feedback - what works, what doesn't work and how you use the Gallery right now. From this, we have built a more modern gallery using Esri's Calcite Design System that allows for flexible configuration, greater style options and the ability to live preview in the same tab before saving your changes to the live site. This Gallery is in beta for its first release – so a great chance to run it alongside your existing 2.3.2 Gallery! Check out some previews below. 1. New Gallery 3.x Beta   2. Admin - Live Preview e.g Information Banner   3. Admin - Use google fonts   The Gallery 3.x Beta will be available from Thursday 21st July 2022. We will be updating the Eagle Demo Gallery do you can take a look and try things out. Keep an eye out on GeoNet as all release info including the new feature list, change log, information on how to get the Gallery and some demo videos will be posted here come the 21st. For now, we hope you are excited to try something new and make the most of a refreshed shop window to your mapping content! The LocalMaps Team ... View more