idea Provide an option to disable map rotation in ArcGIS Explorer Ideas

Provide an option to disable map rotation

KristenMark1 — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:15:15 GMT

We have users in situations (i.e. riding in bumpy vehicles) where they want the map to stay at a true north orientation and do not want to accidentally rotate the map when pinch zooming in and out in Explorer for ArcGIS.

Re: Provide an option to disable map rotation

PhilipWeeks — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:51:25 GMT

I'm running into this issue for Dashboards which users want to interact with on a large touch screen. I didn't even know map rotation was a thing in the new map viewer until I got a request to have it disabled since it was disorienting to have it happen on accident.

Also crazy that while there is an orientation indicator on the map viewer I don't see any option for this control in the web map settings in the operations dashboard, either new or old. It's insane that a company devoted to geospatial data doesn't think being able to establish orientation is important for a map.

Re: Provide an option to disable map rotation

MarcelBeckmann — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:14:28 GMT

As with so many features and settings in the ESRI World, it would be handy to have them in all ESRI Applications/Products.

We want to disable rotation in the FieldMapsApp.

So please ESRI if you implement this for Explorer (or other functionality/settings in other apps), make it a standard for all Applications and also implement it all Aplications.