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Custom symbol galleries for ArcGIS Online

PatrickJankanish — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:37:39 GMT

A key resource for achieving the goal of organizational branding, quality, and consistency in map authoring and publishing is a coordinated set of map symbols. An organization that is administering an ArcGIS Online subscription should be able to post its own standard marker symbol galleries for the use of its web map authors. The current method of adding custom images one-by-one via a URL for each one is much too awkward and a highly inefficient way for an organization to employ its own custom symbology.

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HarkeeratKang1 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:30:11 GMT

I agree with this idea.

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Timvan_der_Velden — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:37:24 GMT

Indeed, i say next release :)

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SteveCline — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:32:40 GMT

I definitely agree with this view. A customized template option would add to the strength of ArcGIS Online.

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AlexPosthuma — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:30:18 GMT

Agreed. This woiuld be helpful.

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BradyHoak — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:30:00 GMT

Agreed fully - in fact this idea really applies to any graphical asset, along with a new content type and worflow. See my expansion of this idea to as well as a the technical reasons why image hosting does not currently work well for symbols.

Host Organizational Images in ArcGIS Online for Symbols and Storymaps

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SarahBell — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:41:19 GMT

Creating an organization's own custom symbols library for use on ArcGIS Online much like a style file for Pro and ArcMap would be a great addition to ArcGIS' map production. The repeatability will shave time off a company or agency's map production.

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ScottCostello — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:28:48 GMT

This is a must for our organization.

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MichaelBroten — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:51:35 GMT

Using ArcGIS Desktop, I've created a custom style for a complex set of point markers. When I publish the MXD as a map service (share as service), no warning or error messages are generated and the resulting map service does not contain the custom symbology. I've tried using both PNG and EMF images as the source for the marker symbols. I also tracked down a hidden tool that converts a desktop ".style" file to a ".serverstyle" file and copied the ".serverstyle" file into the proper location on the ArcGIS server and then re-started ArcGIS server but the custom symbology still doesn't show up. Seems to me that there should be a standard and simple workflow to accomplish this type of task!?

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BrianBaldwin — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:18:37 GMT

Just trying to give this idea a bump. I still think this is crucial and is a big deficit in ArcGIS Online.

There should be an interface where users can create a more custom icon, using multiple 'layers' just as exists in Pro or ArcMap. These icons could then be saved and used across other layers and maps.

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BrendanDwyer — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:37:51 GMT

Yes, I'd like to be able to add styles to server and portal without having to go through this:

How To: Configure Portal for ArcGIS with custom symbology

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TahirTamba1 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:53:40 GMT

100% agree with this idea.

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keithjoiner — Mon, 22 May 2017 12:16:29 GMT

The ability to batch upload custom symbols would greatly help esri disseminate the use of AGOL.

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BrandonLee1 — Mon, 22 May 2017 14:25:38 GMT

The custom symbols would help the usage of AGOL.

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HilaryCampbell — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:12:43 GMT

Bernie Szukalski and others at #esriuc2017‌ emphasised repeatedly the need to have the same look and feel across applications within an organisation, so that regardless of the map or app the user see, the symbology should be consistent. The ability to create and manage symbology in galleries or styles would allow map/app authors to be confident that they are representing features the way people expect to see them. Big thumbs up on this idea.

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AnthonyRyanEQL — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 07:19:36 GMT

This idea should also include Portal for ArcGIS as well. Going through these steps (How To: Configure Portal for ArcGIS with custom symbology ) is very painful and time consuming especially when talking about 100-200 symbols

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RyanCefalu — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:20:44 GMT

Please! We don't use the GIS online hardly at all simply because of this.

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NikkiHill — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:57:28 GMT

Adding custom symbols to a web map using a URL is not efficient. Please make it possible it possible to add a different way!!

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CynthiaPaloma — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 04:14:08 GMT

My students asked how to use custom symbols in AGOL without a URL, particularly Unicode emoji as a character marker. If you add it, they will use it!

Original reference: Unicode Character Marker in AGOL?