Latest Contributions by CarolMcClellan

Currently, image content loaded into AGOL can only be permanently used in journal/story mapping applications if the image content is shared publicly. While privately-shared image content can be added to a journal/story map currently, after some time (approx. 1 month) the privately-shared image urls expire and the links to the image content in the journal/story map break. Image content on AGOL should be allowed to be shared privately ie: within an organization with a static url, which would prevent these links from breaking and allow journal maps that leverage images to be privately shared/shared within an organization. ... View more

The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modelling System (CMAQ) is a suite of air quality modelling programs used worldwide to produce air quality model simulations.  In many cases, the output from the model is in the format of a NetCDF3-based "IOAPI" file (hereafter, IOAPI file). An IOAPI file stores its spatial information in the file in a format that is not currently supported by Esri’s NetCDF suite of tools, i.e. the IOAPI file spatial information does not following CF convention. Because of this, ArcGIS as a visualization tool for Air Quality modelling results (such as mapping and animations) is not widely utilized and often abandoned in favour of open-source programs such as Verdi that can readily read-in model output files.  The downfall of these open source programs is, however, that the data mapping are not as professional or customizable as ArcGIS allows, and the user is quite limited in what they can do to explore the data and to produce information-rich maps. It would be excellent if Esri could expand the NetCDF tools to accept IOAPI file inputs.  I'm certain that if this was done, many more people in the Air Quality modelling community would leverage Esri software for their analysis and visualizations in lieu of the open source programs.  ArcGIS is very powerful and capable of so many different things that are very relevant to this community that Esri needs to take some steps that will help to facilitate the use of their software by the users in this community. ... View more