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Story Map Tours different color pins

SarahLevy1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:19:48 GMT

I'm making a Story Map tour (explorer) with a number of different "themed" stories. Is there any way to have different color pins? I'm not a coder, so simpler solutions are better for me, if possible!

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

OwenGeo — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:03:06 GMT

@SarahLevy1 - Sure, each tour (even tours in the same story) can use a different color.

Just go into the Map settings (in the top corner of the tour map) and you'll see the option to change the point color for that tour's points.

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

SarahLevy1 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:37:37 GMT

Thanks OwenGeo. Yep, I've seen that. I want to have different colors within the same tour. So one red point, one yellow point, one blue point, etc. I haven't seen an option to do that. Am I missing something?

Sarah A. Levy
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Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

OwenGeo — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:42:01 GMT

@SarahLevy1 - That option is not currently available, but we are considering it for a future enhancement.

Could you provide some detail about what you'd like to be able to do so we can understand how you would use the colors? Would you use this in a guided tour, explorer tour, or both? What aspect of the tour locations would you be differentiating with color? How many different colors would you use in a single tour?

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins - Status changed to: Under Consideration

OwenGeo — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:42:57 GMT

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

OwenGeo — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:43:50 GMT

@SarahLevy1 - I've moved this to the ideas board so others can vote for it and share their use cases.

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

SarahLevy1 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:00:37 GMT

Great, thank you for your consideration!

I work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and we're highlighting the geographic locations of all of our success stories. We'd like to be able to group them by themes according to agency or Departmental priorities. So for example, fixing up infrastructure would be one priority, community outreach another, etc. Each of these themes would be their own color (fixing infrastructure blue, community outreach yellow, etc.). That way when someone is looking at the map, they can immediately tell what our stories cover. A legend would help with that as well.

I appreciate that you put this on the Ideas board!

Sarah A. Levy
External Affairs
Desk: 503-231-6208
Cell: 971-263-4024
sarah_levy@fws.gov

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

CodyLeviloff — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:08:21 GMT

Designing an interactive map to display Northern California Marine Protected Areas and would really like to have points on my map with colors corresponding to the different color codes of the MPA's. I'd love to see the ability to have multiple different colored points on my map!

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

AaronKoelker — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:40:51 GMT

Not sure if this should be a different idea or not -- but additionally to this idea, I would also really like to see custom icons for the Map Tours (same functionality that was just added to express maps) as well as being able to change the color of the numbers on the points for a guided tour. I'm currently working with a dark basemap and would like to use white icons, but the numbers on the stops are white by default and so you wouldn't be able to read them. Even just a toggle for white or black numbers, depending on which contrasts best.

Thanks for all the great updates you've been putting out!

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

TGordon — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:52:03 GMT

Yes, I would like the same. I am doing some water quality maps and would like to differentiate between sample locations ( with different colors for results that are within acceptable range and above acceptable range) and potential source locations (also a different color). This would allow us to see where the hot spots potentially coincided with locations that could be contributing to issues.

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KBERG_EGLE — Wed, 19 May 2021 12:59:27 GMT

We would like to do this as well to symbolize projects that are "In Progress" vs. "Complete".

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AGP — Thu, 20 May 2021 07:28:19 GMT

I'm with@AaronKoelker. I would also like the option to change icons for the Map Tours.

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JayHodny — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:14:28 GMT

Yes, I would like the option to set different colors on the pins for the Map Tour (Explorer option) in the new Story Map application. I developed a Story Map about the various apartment, commercial, etc. development going on around town (Development Plan Proposals (arcgis.com)). Our Planning Department would like to see the pins colored as the status of the project: new/proposed, council approved, under construction, finished, delayed, or similar. Each step in the the development's progress would have a corresponding color. The status could be a field in the feature service. Thank you.

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LiviaBetancourtMazur — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:20:28 GMT

Yes, I'd like also like ability to color code pins (similar to the classic Story Maps and Unique Values symbology in other ArcGIS products). I am recreating a classic Story Map tour where we had the tour points in different colors (based on different categories), and now I am not sure I can convince my "customer" to upgrade to the newer Story Maps if I can't color code the tour points. Thanks!

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

AntonioCalle — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:37:10 GMT

We are also interested in this option to differentiate/classify information behind a point. any news on if and when this option is going to be implemented?

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

JayHodny — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:37:27 GMT

Further to my comment back in May, adding a legend that is tied to the pin colors/attribute would be needed as well. I am hoping this happens! Thank you.

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

LaurenLederle — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:39:10 GMT

@OwenGeo I'm curious if there are any updates to adding this feature? Many of us would like to have different colored pins in the same map tour instead of different tours in the same story. Thanks!

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

SheaWilliams — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:28:16 GMT

I found this page as I was also seeking this feature for a map to distinguish between current/in development projects. Looks like there was potential for these changes. Will be following here for an update hopefully. Thanks! @OwenGeo

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

GenevieveW — Sun, 08 May 2022 19:33:08 GMT

I'd like to see the different pin color feature added as well. I'm making a school project and am trying to compare the locations visited on two separate occasions.

Re: Story Map Tours different color pins

AllisonTalsma — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:44:55 GMT

I would also like to see different pin colors. Specifically I want a color pin for design projects and a different color pin for construction projects. @OwenGeo