Latest Contributions by JeffWielki1

Tweets seem to indicate that there are stats that exist somewhere regarding trending maps published to ArcGIS Online. I for one would love to see what's trending (in my geography perhaps) in real time. Is there a way that, as a viewer of the AGOL Gallery, I could view trending maps, perhaps by region? I'd like to see what other people think is awesome both worldwide, and where I live... and maybe what's super trending in Korea, or France. It would be amazing to have "Trending" as a "Sort by" dropdown option, or as an option in the "Show" filter list on the left of the Gallery. ... View more

AKA Label Clustering. Sometimes I have multiple features that I need to be distinct (for example, points that need to remain as multiple visible points as opposed to a clustered single point) but all of those points have exactly the same callout. Manual cleanup ensues, and often times I would like to have a single callout box, with multiple arrows pointing to the various similarly attributed features. Here's a relatively poor example of what I mean (it would be much cleaner ideally): ... View more

I'd like to automatically call sources of the data used in my map from the metadata and display the citation in the layout using dynamic text. Automatic data sourcing like this would dramatically improve layout workflows and ensure source accuracy. This idea would require the ability to display metadata fields using dynamic text, but I'd also like to suggest a standard "Citation" field in metadata which would contain suitable sourcing information for display on the page. This may also be useful for citing the data publication date, author, credits, etc. ... View more

Sometimes multiple layers in an mxd need to be symbolized or labeled in exactly the same way, but making multiple selections in the TOC doesn't allow the user to change these properties for all layers. You still need to go through each one individually. This could be a big time saver in some instances, and would be easy to implement. ... View more

I'd like to be able to drag and drop elements (photos) into the layout view. This should be an option if you "drop" the object outside of the TOC or the data frame. Much simpler than navigating through the "Insert" UI. ... View more

I think a useful tool would be a grid/graticule wizard option that references a layer in the map to label outside of the map frame the way the current Measured Grid or Reference Grid does. I'd like to use it to label townships and ranges outside of the map frame, but the application could extend to the Public Land Survey System, Land Ownership, County Labels, districts, ...anything really! The way I picture it, a polygon that extends outside the data frame neatline would be labeled next to, but outside the neatline. I do this quite often manually, but to be able to have it automatically generated like a UTM grid or a graticule would be so much easier. As motovation for ESRI to do this, maybe it could be included with Maplex if it's too advanced for a base ArcView license. ... View more

PDF is super useful, but sometimes exporting a map book series to JPG, TIFF, or perhaps other options may be useful for users.   This was available in DS map books, please bring this functionality back sp users don't need to add the step of exporting from the PDF file. ... View more

DS Map Books allowed the user to see a list of all of the pages, and pick a particular page to view.   Scrolling through the pages one by one is fine for books that have a few pages, but once there are more than 10 pages, scrolling one by one becomes less functional, especially when there are hundreds of pages and all you want to do is go to certain specific ones.   Please bring back a list view so it's functional when dealing with volume. ... View more

Image texture (spatial variation) is useful in the recognition of image regions and very helpful in defining regions in calssifying images. Image classification is much improved when textures of a region are considered. It can be done using equations and moving windows, but this useful technique could be much easier to implement and would be more accessible to many users if it was included as a texture tool in spatial analyst. ... View more

Image texture (spatial variation) is useful in the recognition of image regions and very helpful in defining regions in calssifying images. Image classification is much improved when textures of a region are considered. It can be done using equations and moving windows, but this useful technique could be much easier to implement and would be more accessible to many users if it was included as a texture tool in spatial analyst. ... View more

The current DS Map Books will update page titles,  numbers, or simple information currently referenced in an attribute table. Being able to use this functionality to display photos or tables associated with the specific page (in the layout) would be super useful. ... View more