idea Polygon selection should be transparent when editing in web maps in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Polygon selection should be transparent when editing in web maps

AnnaCuninghame — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:10:32 GMT

My team is currently working on editing and digitising polygon features from an aerial photography baselayer. There are two active layers that require editing, an AOI layer and the feature of interest layer. When creating a new feature the grid cell's semi opaque cyan selection colour obscures the aerial photography thus making it really difficult to delineate & digitise the target feature. When selecting an existing polygon feature to edit it the selection opacity of both the AOI grid cell and the feature make it really opaque and even more difficult.

The default or at least configurable selection setting for polygons should be outline only with transparent fill, like in ArcPro:

We have just moved from QGIS to AGOL and while I like the ease of set up & sharing of data, this is making it really hard for my team to perform these simple tasks which were really easy in QGIS.

Re: Polygon selection should be transparent when editing in web maps

EmilyGeo — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:00:53 GMT

Hi @AnnaCuninghame,

Thanks for sharing your idea! In the mean time, one thing that might help is to set the transparency in either the Layer properties or the Symbol style so that you can more easily see the imagery below.

You might also try adjusting brightness or contrast using Effects:

Re: Polygon selection should be transparent when editing in web maps

AnnaCuninghame — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:53:12 GMT

Hello, thanks for the response - the layer transparency is set to 100% in both layers so you can see what needs edited, it's that when you select an object to edit it both the edit layer & cell layer get highlighted in the selection colour so while doing the actual editing it's really hard to see the outline of the features.