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Public Maps Gallery template version 1.4 --Opening post

Esriwebmap

Please reply to this opening post to submit questions and comments about the Public Maps Gallery (PMG) template version 1.4.

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Esriwebmap

We have been slowly developing our site and have made a few of our maps public and such for testing purposes; they may be seen here:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

That being said - we are having some rather significant issues with the Android App.

1) The App fills 'no fill' polygons. I have not tried to fill it with 100% transparency yet but that may be a work around.

2) Points are being drawn from the services which should not. We fine tune all of our symbology but we are getting a lot of red circles with black outlines scattered across the map. I do not have an android phone in office for testing and will on Friday and will provide more information at that point. And of course - there may be a workaround but simply - features not being displayed by the service are being displayed by the app. I presuppose this has to do with features in feature classes not being given symbol (b/c we don't want them drawn anyway) and then the App defaults to the red fill black outline symbol - kind-of like when it fills no fill polys. Again - I may be able to prescribe an 'all else' symbol w/ 100% transparency as above.

3) We are having problems similar to past iphone issues where the client selects a map on the public map gallery and then is directed always to the first map viewed and unless the user goes into the app and joins our group and then selects the maps off-site without the public maps gallery, the user may only then select a new map and the features will draw. Otherwise the map often comes up blank.

We tested the android app with the site on a Galaxy S and Galaxy SII (4G)

I will test the two workarounds but this probably needs to be fixed in the app as it draws fine for apple.

Thanks again, DZ

Thanks for the feedback David. I'll look into these issues.

MiguelParedes

Greetings from Esri UK team,

On the PMG pages for the latest release, 1.4.1, the first line of the changes for this version reads "Support for using the template with private ArcGIS.com groups and items". Would you please explain how would this implemented?

Many thanks in advance.

Parish_ofAscension

Hi,
I have couple of questions. I have my GIS data organized using ESRI's Local Government Information Model in ArcSDE 10SP3. I will be using ArcGIS server to publish data from ArcSDE.

Question1: If I use Public Maps Gallery template to publish maps coming from my ArcGIS server, how are the client requests passed through? If an end user hits the map page, will the request go to ArcGIS.com then routed to my ArcGIS server?

Question2: Is it possible to configure multiple searches (address, parcel, subdivision) in public maps gallery? Please let me know if there are any documentation on this topic.

Appreciate your help.
Thanks
VJ

MiguelParedes

Greetings PMG team,

Does the app. recognises what viewer is set within a group? My group has a mixture of web maps set to be viewed with the AGOL Viewer, AGXOL, and one in AGXOL presentation mode. However, when I point my PMG to the group, all maps are available through the default AGOL viewer only.
This seems to work, as the folks from Ofallon show this works on their implementation of a PMG. In their PMG, the second map in the first page does have the following URL type -> http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=<webmap id>

Am I correct in assuming that the app senses what viewer a map uses and generates the appropriate URL? Or is this something that needs to be set up manually in the configuration somewhere? If the latter is the case, would you please point me in the right direction on where to set up?

Many thanks in advance for the help.

DavidZiff

We have been slowly developing our site and have made a few of our maps public and such for testing purposes; they may be seen here:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

That being said - we are having some rather significant issues with the Android App.

1) The App fills 'no fill' polygons. I have not tried to fill it with 100% transparency yet but that may be a work around.

2) Points are being drawn from the services which should not. We fine tune all of our symbology but we are getting a lot of red circles with black outlines scattered across the map. I do not have an android phone in office for testing and will on Friday and will provide more information at that point. And of course - there may be a workaround but simply - features not being displayed by the service are being displayed by the app. I presuppose this has to do with features in feature classes not being given symbol (b/c we don't want them drawn anyway) and then the App defaults to the red fill black outline symbol - kind-of like when it fills no fill polys. Again - I may be able to prescribe an 'all else' symbol w/ 100% transparency as above.

3) We are having problems similar to past iphone issues where the client selects a map on the public map gallery and then is directed always to the first map viewed and unless the user goes into the app and joins our group and then selects the maps off-site without the public maps gallery, the user may only then select a new map and the features will draw. Otherwise the map often comes up blank.

We tested the android app with the site on a Galaxy S and Galaxy SII (4G)

I will test the two workarounds but this probably needs to be fixed in the app as it draws fine for apple.

Thanks again, DZ

MiguelParedes

Hi Miguel,

Yes, that should be possible. It's not currently an option but I'll see if I can get that included in an update. It would just have to find the center of the map before the resize and then reset the center after.

Thanks

That's great team, many thanks.

Esriwebmap

Greetings PMG team,

I have noticed that when I click on the "Fullscreen View" button whilst viewing a map, the map is no longer centred in the correct location. Is there a way of adjusting a parameter within the template so that the map centre is maintained whilst switching the map view?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi Miguel,

Yes, that should be possible. It's not currently an option but I'll see if I can get that included in an update. It would just have to find the center of the map before the resize and then reset the center after.

Thanks

Esriwebmap

Greetings Maps Gallery fans,

I'm implementing a few of these Map Galleries with the latest template, 1.4.1, but I can't find how to display access, or download of the apps for mobile access (similar to what our friends in Texas; Baxter County have done) anywhere. Would someone please point me on the way to activating this functionality?

Many thanks in advance.

This is currently not a config option so you'll have to add it into the HTML or in the side links yourself. All the links and images of should be in the previous version of the template. 1.3

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7a3d8b01e92b41b2b851779b81ffbefa

Thanks

Esriwebmap

After I replaced my group ID in the settings.required config file, I restart the index.html file and receive and error message.

It says...
Message from webpage
Please enter a group ID in the required settings config.

I have done that....not sure what else to do. I would like to make a Public Gallery Page. I even made changes to the settings.content file. I followed exactly what was in the quick start quide....
Please Help!!

Hi David,

Does your group have any web maps in it?

Can you post your config file and I'll see if I can diagnose the problem.

Thanks

DavidAlford1

After I replaced my group ID in the settings.required config file, I restart the index.html file and receive and error message.

It says...
Message from webpage
Please enter a group ID in the required settings config.

I have done that....not sure what else to do. I would like to make a Public Gallery Page. I even made changes to the settings.content file. I followed exactly what was in the quick start quide....
Please Help!!

Esriwebmap

Greetings Public Maps Gallery team,

In the official page for the template, at the very bottom of the template description, there is a statement saying:
" This template is not intended for ArcGIS Online Organization Subscription accounts when they become available."
However, I have this working with our beta version of AGO for OS. The statement above would seem to indicate that the Public Maps Gallery template would no longer work with the final version of AGO for OS. Would you please elaborate if this indeed will be the case, and why?

Many thanks in advance.

Miguel - we put the disclaimer in because at the time that we created the PMG template we couldn't be sure how ArcGIS Online for Organizations would behave with the Gallery. Our main concern was with the Group ID - we didn't know if a Group ID for an Organization account would remain fixed (unchanging). But now the ArcGIS Online team has assured us that "a group ID is valid for the lifetime of the group." Once you create the group, the ID remains the same. Which is great news for PMG template users.

The Team cautions that if you delete the group then recreate it and name it the same, the Group may appear the same as before to the end-user but the Group ID will be different. This applies to both the Personal and Organizations side of ArcGIS Online. If this happens to the Group used by the PMG template, you'll need to edit the config file with the new Group ID.

Thank you for bringing this question to the forum. Others have been asking similar questions. We will remove the disclaimer.

MiguelParedes

Greetings PMG team,

I have noticed that when I click on the "Fullscreen View" button whilst viewing a map, the map is no longer centred in the correct location. Is there a way of adjusting a parameter within the template so that the map centre is maintained whilst switching the map view?

Many thanks in advance.

Peru-Centred-Original-Map.jpg

Peru-Off-Centre-FullscreenView.jpg

MiguelParedes

Greetings Public Maps Gallery team,

In the official page for the template, at the very bottom of the template description, there is a statement saying:
"This template is not intended for ArcGIS Online Organization Subscription accounts when they become available."
However, I have this working with our beta version of AGO for OS. The statement above would seem to indicate that the Public Maps Gallery template would no longer work with the final version of AGO for OS. Would you please elaborate if this indeed will be the case, and why?

Many thanks in advance.

MiguelParedes

Greetings Maps Gallery fans,

I'm implementing a few of these Map Galleries with the latest template, 1.4.1, but I can't find how to display access, or download of the apps for mobile access (similar to what our friends in Texas; Baxter County have done) anywhere. Would someone please point me on the way to activating this functionality?

Many thanks in advance.

DonBarker

I currently have our application setup to use the 'simple' option. I've also left the embed option enabled. I like the simple option because users can stay within the gallery to browse through multiple maps without leaving the site. However, I would like to be able to give them a way to view the map with the additional options they can gete vie the explorer and arcgis options. Is there an easy way to allow the user viewing the map.html page to then open the selected map via ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Explorer Online?

The link to our site is http://publicmaps.ofallon.org/gallery. Thanks for your help!

Take a look at the footer in this mod of the basic map viewer:

http://gis.co.sanmateo.ca.us/map_gallery/basicviewer/index.html?webmap=ce0bdba0c92a422f89b2dfd490e025b1

Let me know if you want more info about how we (non-programmers) did it.

MiguelParedes

Hi Miguel,

The ArcGIS Online development team is aware of this issue and has identified it as a future enhancement. The timing hasn�??t been established.

Thank you

Fantastic news Bill. Many thanks for passing that along.

MiguelParedes

We'll take that into consideration for the next version. You should be able to modify the map.html and index.html files and remove the div with the id of "footer". Then you can change the background color of the body/html in the CSS to a different color if you like. That should be it.

Let me know if that works for you.

Greetings again,

Yes, your instructions worked a treat. However, I have just downloaded the latest version 1.4.1, and you've gents have made life much easier! The option for "hiding" the footer with a single flag is much better than having to modified (comment out) code. And this is just one of the many other flags to enable /disable functionality. So many thanks for making a great app even better.

Keep the improvements coming.

DavidZiff

k - Thanks!

Esriwebmap

Here are the beginnings of our site:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

Is there any way to control the order the maps are listed?

Thanks again, DZ

Hey David,

Looks good! Yes, you can change that in the optional settings.

// FIELD TO ORDER YOUR GROUP BY
pmgConfig.sortField = 'uploaded'; // SORTING COLUMN= The allowed field names are title, uploaded, type, owner, avgRating, numRatings, numComments and numViews. Default: 'uploaded'.

DavidZiff

Here are the beginnings of our site:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

Is there any way to control the order the maps are listed?

Thanks again, DZ

Esriwebmap

Greetings all,

I have just become aware of the existence of the 1.4 version of the Public Maps Gallery template. One thing that I have noticed in version 1.3.1 a couple of days ago, and that still has not been pointed out, as far as I know is that the maps don't propagate their watermarks! So if I have a look at a map within ArcGIS Online which contains a basemap such as OSM, I see the following:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]11873[/ATTACH]
However, in the map gallery for the same map there is no copyright watermark. How can this be resolved?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi Miguel,

The ArcGIS Online development team is aware of this issue and has identified it as a future enhancement. The timing hasn�??t been established.

Thank you

Esriwebmap

I've updated the template to version 1.4.1

This update includes:

Support for using the template with private groups and items
Option to hide footer
Option to hide sharing icons
Sharing icons are now using Addthis.com
Using API version 2.7
jQuery 1.7.1
Created tool for generating ArcGIS.com token.
Option to open explorer view in presentation mode
Various minor fixes

You can download the latest version from the ArcGIS.com page or from Github.

Thanks for all the feedback!

Esriwebmap

I've tried changed the lod variable to lower numbers, but with no luck. My data is in State Plane, I am assuming the could be an issue? Here is my rest endpoint for the tiled basemap. Is there a way to define one of the LOD's as a default zoom to location?

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Arlington_Basemap_Plain/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true

Hey Bill,

I can't figure out why it's not working correctly. I know it has to do with the custom base-map. Maybe you can try posting your app on the ArcGIS Javascript API forum and see if someone has an idea.

http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/15-ArcGIS-API-for-JavaScript

DonBarker

Thanks for the quick response and the tip.

Hi Don,

That's a great suggestion. I'll add an option for 'explorer_present'.

If you open /scripts/query.arcgis.js and replace this function, it should fix it for you.

Esriwebmap

The map gallery template is a great resource. Thanks for this!

I'm using it in parallel at maps.choptankriverheritage.org and stories.choptankriverheritage.org.

The reason for both is that I have some online map presentations made for ArcGIS Explorer Online. They look very bad when they open up in the ArcGIS.com viewer, and the presentation doesn't work there, anyway. So I created two AGO groups and two separate galleries. Then I set the config option for the story items to open in Explorer.

I think that when the config file is set to open the map in Explorer, the URL parameter should be ?present=, not ?open=.

Why send the user to Explorer then make them fiddle around trying to start the presentation?

I'll look through the /scripts/ files to see if I can find and modify this function. But I'm a Javascript novice and am not sure I'll get it right.

Thanks for considering this suggestion.

Hi Don,

That's a great suggestion. I'll add an option for 'explorer_present'.

If you open /scripts/query.arcgis.js and replace this function, it should fix it for you.

/*------------------------------------*/
// GET VIEWER URL TO USE
/*------------------------------------*/
function getViewerURL(){
 switch(pmgConfig.mapViewer){
  case 'arcgis':
   return pmgConfig.arcgisPortalURL + 'home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=';
   break;
  case 'explorer':
   return 'http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=';
   break;
  case 'explorer_present':
   return 'http://explorer.arcgis.com/?present=';
   break;
  case 'simple':
   return 'map.html?webmap=';
   break;
  default:
   return 'map.html?webmap=';
 }
}

DonBarker

The map gallery template is a great resource. Thanks for this!

I'm using it in parallel at maps.choptankriverheritage.org and stories.choptankriverheritage.org.

The reason for both is that I have some online map presentations made for ArcGIS Explorer Online. They look very bad when they open up in the ArcGIS.com viewer, and the presentation doesn't work there, anyway. So I created two AGO groups and two separate galleries. Then I set the config option for the story items to open in Explorer.

I think that when the config file is set to open the map in Explorer, the URL parameter should be ?present=, not ?open=.

Why send the user to Explorer then make them fiddle around trying to start the presentation?

I'll look through the /scripts/ files to see if I can find and modify this function. But I'm a Javascript novice and am not sure I'll get it right.

Thanks for considering this suggestion.

MattDriscoll

I've tried changed the lod variable to lower numbers, but with no luck. My data is in State Plane, I am assuming the could be an issue? Here is my rest endpoint for the tiled basemap. Is there a way to define one of the LOD's as a default zoom to location?

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Arlington_Basemap_Plain/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true

Hey Bill,
I'll look into this some more and see what I can find.

BillEveringham

Hi Bill,

That looks really good. Nice work.

The geolocation is probably zooming too far for the custom basemap. You can change the Level of detail in one of the scripts files. I should probably make it a config variable in the future. If you look in user-agent.js on like 54 you can change the lod variable to a smaller number so it doesn't zoom users in too far.
function zoomToLocation(x, y, IPAccuracy){
 // calculate lod
 var lod = 14;
Hope that helps.

I've tried changed the lod variable to lower numbers, but with no luck. My data is in State Plane, I am assuming the could be an issue? Here is my rest endpoint for the tiled basemap. Is there a way to define one of the LOD's as a default zoom to location?

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Arlington_Basemap_Plain/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true

Esriwebmap

Greetings, fellow Map Gallery Template fans...

I would like to suggest making the Footer area optional. At the moment one can only change all aspects of the Footer, except turning the footer off when it isn't required. Maybe a consideration for the next iteration?

In any case, I would appreciate some advice on how would I be able to remove it within the current structure of the template.

Many thanks in advance.

We'll take that into consideration for the next version. You should be able to modify the map.html and index.html files and remove the div with the id of "footer". Then you can change the background color of the body/html in the CSS to a different color if you like. That should be it.

Let me know if that works for you.

Esriwebmap

Greetings all,

I have just become aware of the existence of the 1.4 version of the Public Maps Gallery template. One thing that I have noticed in version 1.3.1 a couple of days ago, and that still has not been pointed out, as far as I know is that the maps don't propagate their watermarks! So if I have a look at a map within ArcGIS Online which contains a basemap such as OSM, I see the following:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]11873[/ATTACH]
However, in the map gallery for the same map there is no copyright watermark. How can this be resolved?

Many thanks in advance.

Hey Miguel,

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll see how I can best address this issue.

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