I'm the creator of the SCCS: http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/Sccs34.htm

Question

http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/Sccs34.htm has the coordinates of 186 societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, used in over 1000 comparative studies. How do I put the Names of societies into those coordinates in the standard map of ArcGIS online?

e.g., mine is http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=6af80c5aaf804865b783eddc52de5f24

There are 2000+ cross-cultural variables that can also be selected for display on a baseline map. Anyone care to collaborate on this and similar projects? E.g. EthnoAtlas of 1283 societies ForagerSample of 339 forager studies (all the variables are carefully coded and time-dated from ethnographies).

Mike Minami · Answer

You can upload the CSV directly into the map from a file. From the map, find the Add button and click Add layer from file. Then navigate to your CSV file. You will first need to rename the columns for latitude and longitude to be "lat" and "Long" instead of the current abbreviations you have.

Here are some help topics that may help.

Adding layers from a file - http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisonline/help/#/Adding_layers_from_files/010q000000m6000000/
Info about CSV files - http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisonline/help/#/About_CSV_TXT_and_GPX_files/010q0000008v000000/
About popups - http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisonline/help/#/About_displaying_attributes_with_pop_up_windows/010q0000004s000000/

Thanks,

Mike

DougWhite · Answer

Are you trying to label the map? Unfortunately, there are no labeling abilities. However, if you configure a popup on the layer, you can point at a feature and get it's attributes.

Mike

I put the *.csv at http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/Sccs34.csv

it doesnt seem to take however

DougWhite · Answer

Are you trying to label the map? Unfortunately, there are no labeling abilities. However, if you configure a popup on the layer, you can point at a feature and get it's attributes.

Mike

Thanks, Mike. I can make the name label a feature but as an "online" newbie where would I get an instruction page for a popup in the layer and how would I move the columns off the url http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/worldcul/Sccs34 into their coordinate positions in the popup? (sorry for the bother, once I get going... will be ok)
Doug