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Rebeca, hi from Tennessee, although I am originally from Puerto Rico where many moons ago I was a hydrologist and directed the USGS office in the island, and later the one in TN. Partially retired, I enjoy the great features of ARCGIS, more recently stuff like the Lidar and other imagery data. Unfortunately, the Lidar data for Puerto Rico appears to be of poor resolution, unlike the mainland images I can easily draw from ARGIS On Line. PR is a US territory, and there is no reason both from the science and educational angles for not providing better resolution data for the island. Perhaps I am looking at the wrong place, but please check this and let me know if what I see is the best ESRI can provide for PR (below image of western PR from your Lidar anchor). Thanks and happy 2023. Cordially, Ferdinand Quinones
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Hi, Rupert. Since the changes to the Story Maps page I lost how to protect a Story Map from accidental deletion. I have been working on a Map Journal on the effects of hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico, and would hate to loose all the work completed. The instructions when I search are (to me) confusing. Can you or somebody else provide a step by step procedure to do so? Is it a global setting that does it for all Story Maps in my "My Stories" or individual settings. I am confused. Thanks.
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Hi, Ismael. I had not seen your response above until today. Although I appreciate the proposed clarifications, you still leave a defective product in the public domain. The correct thing to do is to remove the map and try to fix it. The errors are in the hundreds, and by leaving it published with a disclaimer is like placing a bandaid on a 10-inch deep wound. There will be folks that will use the map as is regardless of the disclaimer. Scientists cannot follow an approach of disclaimers, because we are supposed to publish curated and verified facts. Again, I strongly recommend to remove it until it is fixed. Thanks.
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Dear Charlie: Greetings. You need to view my comments about the interpretive errors on the damaged buildings published with the tool. There are many, many, many, buildings shown as destroyed when they are in good shape. I know since I am from PR and have been reviewing the FEMA aerial photos to assist in the remediation activities as a volunteer. The tool should be removed until this problem is fixed, since it is misleading.
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The before images appear to be obsolete, from at least 4-5 years old. I am from Puerto Rico, and after looking at random at images I find many errors in the interpretation of damage in parts generated by the old imagery but also due to mis-interpretations as to what is damaged and what is not. In PR most of the houses and buildings have flat roofs, as it does not snow. During hurricanes lots of debris flying accumulate on those flat roofs. This gives the impression of damages, which is not the case. In my hometown of Lares I counted at least 10 buildings rated as destroyed that are not. Good tool but as of now very inaccurate.
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Hi, Rupert, and thanks for the help. Another issue: Several of my Story Maps had links to images located in the "public" folder in Dropbox. Dropbox no longer allows these links directly into the public folder, so several of my stories are blank. I began correcting them by inserting the images from my server. Below is an example of the first one I edited. Notice that the image for section 2 is shown with inaccesible image. But I already re-entered the new link as shown in the third line as a new page 2. I do not know or can find out how to delete the first page 2 with the note of the inaccesible link. Once I find out how to do this I can fix my other stories that suffer the same problem generated by Dropbox. Please advise how to delete this line in pink. Thanks Ferdinand Quinones
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Here again, Gegory. I forgot to ask about the hosting explanation in your email above. I have an individual license as an educator, and my knowledge is limited. Does my license include hosting data in ArcGIS Online as hosted Feature Service or using ArcGIS Server? Please advise and any guidance. Thanks again. Ferdinand On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Ferdinand Quinones <fquinon@gmail.com>
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Hi, Gregory. I was on travel and did not see your email until now. Here is the link to a Story Map Journal of the main waterfalls in Puerto Rico I am working on (only partially populated with images and GIF's): http://arcg.is/1xiV4ol. Check the green marker for an example of a picture that shows rather small. If you check the blue group just south of the green marker (just about 5 in the clock dial), I have added some GIF's that are also small. I tried increasing the size of the images with GIMP but there is no effect. Any help will be appreciated. Cordially, Ferdinand
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Dear Gregory: Thanks for the advice and tip. I do not know if your message lost something, but after you mention the configuration panel in Main Stage, other than the advise for the pop-ups reference, there is no other comment. I used bothe the fill and fit oprions on the Main Stage, and my figures (these are maps of sections of Puerto Rico) are still too large and cut off some of the information pertinent to the Story Map. I am not using a map, but an image (the photos), which I already discovered does not give you the option of moving or zooming. Not too good for my objective since on the Map option, and layer that I try to bring up to the map is rejected as being too large (>1,000 points). This limitation will hinder a wide expansion of the format, since most ARCGIS users have dozens of layers as shp files that exceed this parameter. Apart from the issues with the size of layers, any advice to show my images on the Main Page will be appreciated. Cordially, Ferdinand Quiñones
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I am a rookie at building Story Maps, have done some of the simpler. Tackling a Journal format, and most of all OK, except that the images that I bring up to the Main are too large. How do you scale them to be smaller, particularly if to be used as pop-ups? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Ferdinand Quiñones
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Thanks again, Rupert. I tested that and it works, but the size of the image inserted after selecting the text takes all the main page screen. Is it possible to reduce the inserts to pop-up size as I see on some of the examples?
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Dear Rupert, another question about the Story Map Journal I am composing. How is the "Main Stage Actions" block activated? I would like to add some "pop-up" inserts into the main maps (either in the form of pictures or videos). In the map journal I started it is not accesible (visible but not active). Any suggestions? Thanks. Cordially, Ferdinand Quiñones
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Hey Rupert, thanks a lot. Worked like a charm. Never too old to learn something new. Story Maps are great.
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I am building a StoryMap Journal. Most of my text to be input is in Word. When I try to paste the text into the Journal template, nothing happens. Any tricks or suggestions to paste the text into the pages? Thanks
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