topic Re: ArcGIS Online Labels in ArcGIS Online Questions

ArcGIS Online Labels

DonPritt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:10:06 GMT

So I'm looking through the gallery of arcgis online water utility maps from other organizations...
How do you do labeling like this for your maps to post online?
I would like to label my water mains, streets and whatever like this, can anyone give me a clue or where to look? I'm working with a file geodatabase and not a server if that make a difference.
It would be greatly appreciated...

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

TimWitt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:16:05 GMT

Don,

do you have an organizational account? If so you can upload your files as a feature service which also uploads labels. All you have to do is open an empty mxd, add your layer you want to upload, change the symbology and add labels, and then upload it through ArcGIS Desktop to your organizational content.

If you don't have an organizational account , try this and this.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

DonPritt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:44:54 GMT

Don,

do you have an organizational account? If so you can upload your files as a feature service which also uploads labels. All you have to do is open an empty mxd, add your layer you want to upload, change the symbology and add labels, and then upload it through ArcGIS Desktop to your organizational content.

If you don't have an organizational account , try this and this.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Yes, I have an organizational account, when I upload feature services, say a water main, my labels are turned on and visible within my mxd but not online when I add them to a map.
I also upload multiple layers at a time, in regards to water mains, the fittings, FH's, valves etc.. maybe I need to just upload one layer within my drawing and/or do I need to add lables as text over the mains instead of through the properties?

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

TimWitt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:49:29 GMT

Don,

when uploading your feature services with labels you also need to check Tiled Mapping. This will consume credits but you will have labels. I should have clarified that.

Tim

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

RobertBorchert — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:02:12 GMT

Be advised if you have a large amount of data over a wide area and you use tiled mapping it will chew up LOT of credits.

Another option is to create annotation.

Then use Feature Outline Mask on the annotation. It will create a new feature class from the annotation that you can then upload. You will have to play around with it a few times to get the clearest result.

What I did for one of my clients. They needed to have the last 1, 2 or 3 digits of their customers id visible on ArcGIS online. so I created symbols based on that. Yes I had to manually make a lot of number, most of them were 1 or 2 digit.

I also created section centers as points and symbolized them as numbers.

Don,

when uploading your feature services with labels you also need to check Tiled Mapping. This will consume credits but you will have labels. I should have clarified that.

Tim

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

DonPritt — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:47:05 GMT

Thanks, I'll play around with tiled mapping, I have a fairly large amount of credits available.
I think the annotations layer would work in small areas but our service area is quite large and would be to cumbersome labeling our entire water network.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

KevinMayall — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:11:59 GMT

Thanks, I'll play around with tiled mapping, I have a fairly large amount of credits available.
I think the annotations layer would work in small areas but our service area is quite large and would be to cumbersome labeling our entire water network.

To reduce credit consumption, you can create a tile package (renders the tiles on your desktop) and upload that to ArcGIS Online.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

WilliamRice — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:41:39 GMT

For labeling of ArcGIS Online Web Apps, another option is to add layers published as an ArcGIS REST Map Service. For this option you organization would have to have an external server running ArcGIS for Server. You would publish your map layers from your ArcMap map document to this external server and then add these map services to your AGOL web app. Currently, it seems that one can only publish map layers as feature services to ArcGIS Online and cannot publish layers as Map Services to AGOL.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

AdamInglis — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:36:07 GMT

To reduce credit consumption, you can create a tile package (renders the tiles on your desktop) and upload that to ArcGIS Online.

This is only possible to do for layers that cover a relatively small geographical footprint. For linear developments that span hundreds of kilometres the tile production is very large. I have one simple route layer I'm trying to add KM markings to, but the tile package estimate is 100 GB. Even if the generation of the package finishes successfully I have never been able to upload a tile pack larger than 2.5GB to ArcGIS Online. There has to be a better solution, labels are a pretty basic feature that most users expect.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

DonPritt — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:17:05 GMT

There has to be a better solution, labels are a pretty basic feature that most users expect.

Still a major complaint from members in my organizational account...

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

JustinRichardson — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:34:01 GMT

To reduce credit consumption, you can create a tile package (renders the tiles on your desktop) and upload that to ArcGIS Online.

I just tried this method and while you can upload your tile package to AGOL you can't add the layer to your online map (unless I'm doing something wrong here). You can only store the file in "my content" to share with other users. I'm really frustrated with the lack of labeling in AGOL. There has got to be another solution. Does anyone have any other advise for adding lots of labels? (road names, Water Main Diameters, Hydrants ID's, etc..)

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

AlastairClinkscale — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:30:01 GMT

I just tried this method and while you can upload your tile package to AGOL you can't add the layer to your online map (unless I'm doing something wrong here). You can only store the file in "my content" to share with other users. I'm really frustrated with the lack of labeling in AGOL. There has got to be another solution. Does anyone have any other advise for adding lots of labels? (road names, Water Main Diameters, Hydrants ID's, etc..)

When you upload the .lpk file to My Content, ensure you leave ticked the option to "Publish this file as a Map Service" and it will then trigger the process of publishing the tiles within AGOL - it should take you to the Item Details screen from where you can see this process in action (see the Properties section of that screen > Tiles > Manage Tiles).

When the tile publication is finished, in My Content, you'll have both the Tile Package and Tiles. You should be able to add the Tiles to the AGOL map. You can actually add them to a map even whilst they're still being published - it will display those tiles that have finished being processed.

Agreed it's not a great labeling solution - AGOL really needs a built-in labeling facility.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

DonPritt — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:29:23 GMT

Don,

when uploading your feature services with labels you also need to check Tiled Mapping. This will consume credits but you will have labels. I should have clarified that.

Tim

Thanks Tim, this works for now but definitely have to watch the credit consumption.

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MatthewBaker2 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:24:28 GMT

Does anyone know if there are plans to implement labels in AGOL maps?

Thanks,

-m

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MikeMinami — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:04:35 GMT

Yes, ArcGIS Online will provide support for dynamic labeling Feature Layers in the next update, in mid-July. Here's an excerpt of documentation on labeling...

To display labels for a layer, select one or more attributes you want to show, for example, the name or type of feature. The map viewer automatically places labels on the map on or near the features they describe. You can control the text size, color, and style to help differentiate labels from different layers.

The map viewer places as many labels on the map as possible without overlapping them. Thus, in areas where features are tightly clustered, some features may not get labeled. As you zoom in to an area, more labels will dynamically appear. Labeling priority follows the layer order in your map from top to bottom. Layers at the top get labeled first and thus, will have the most labels. There is no guarantee that you�??ll get the labels you want positioned exactly where you want them. Thus, dynamic labeling is best suited for maps where you don�??t need precise control and only want to label a few layers.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MatthewBaker2 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:57:11 GMT

That's gonna be great... thanks, Mike!!!

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MatthewKing — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:28:18 GMT

Mike,

I see that Labels are now an option on ArcGIS online...which is amazing. Do you know if in the future there will be the ability to set a visibility range for the labels?

Thanks,

Matt

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MikeMinami — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:32:50 GMT

Do you mean independent of the visibility range of the layer itself? I assume you want to restrict label drawing at the smaller scales of layer drawing? What are you trying to do? At this time, we don't have plans to implement this idea, but it's interesting. Perhaps submit it to the community at ideas.arcgis.com.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

MatthewKing — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:22:55 GMT

Mike,

Here's an example map http://bit.ly/1nClwZG‌

You can see (or at least it's what I think) that the labels are too busy. I want the markers themselves to be visible at full scale but the labels wouldn't appear till the user zooms in a bit. I guess the work around would be to bring in or copy those layers again and make a really small marker that's basically not noticeable to the user, enable the labels and then set the visible scale to what I want....but that's kind of inefficient.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: ArcGIS Online Labels

AdamInglis — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:55:31 GMT

You could duplicate that layers. One set with labels, one without. Then set the visibility of the non-labelled layers to turn off when zoomed into the level you want the labels to display at, and set the labelled layers to turn on. I was going to demo on you test map, but I didn't have edit privileges.