topic Re: Goto link not working for light gray reference base map in ArcGIS Online Questions

Goto link not working for light gray reference base map

FalkoSchulz — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 02:20:11 GMT

Hi,

Once in a while I'm using the quick goto* links for some of the well known base maps (easier to remember than the full link with the item ID), e.g. http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/Reference/World_Transportation opens the related entry in ArcGIS Online Portal.

While this works great for most map services - it doesn't for http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/Canvas/World_Light_Gray_Reference . It seems a missing forward slash in the url is causing the the domain name resolution error. Feels like an registration/reference issue in ArcGIS online.

Maybe someone can look into this!? Thanks!

Falko

Re: Goto link not working for light gray reference base map

KellyGerrow — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:47:17 GMT

Thanks for reporting the issue Falko.

We'll look into this.

Re: Goto link not working for light gray reference base map

FalkoSchulz — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:35:16 GMT

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Re: Goto link not working for light gray reference base map

KellyGerrow — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:27:35 GMT

Hi Falko,

Was this url published somewhere? If so, please share it so we can look into the link. For the world light gray canvas map, please use:

http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/World_Light_Gray_Reference

Thanks,

Kelly

Re: Goto link not working for light gray reference base map

FalkoSchulz — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:58:43 GMT

Thanks Kelly.

I may have to check where I got this original link from - but given you nicely structured the goto-links based on the structure of the ArcGIS online service directory http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services - it would make sense to register/fix the original link I sent. For example you also have http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/Canvas/World_Dark_Gray_Reference or http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/Canvas/World_Dark_Gray_Base which are all working fine - in fact you seem to have all ArcGIS online service entries referenced given the directory structure [http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps] + [service_folder] + [service_entry].

Certainly not the highest priority - just a convenient way for me to access some of the portal items. But your last goto link works - thanks for that.

Cheers, Falko