idea Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks in ArcGIS StoryMaps Ideas

Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

KBERG_EGLE — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:10:21 GMT

We are looking to share all projects that we've worked on and will be working on. We have more than 100 sites. I understand the idea of the Map Tour Block is that scrolling would be frustrating to scroll through 100 different sections, but we are using the Grid template of the Tour block. With this, the intent is that people would be interested in just the projects close to them and thus would only click on the points near them and wouldn't be scrolling through all projects. We are looking for a solution that has the option to have 5 pictures, and large blocks of text, AND is easy for non-GIS professionals to complete. With that, dashboards, web apps, and experience builders are not the right solution for us and is why we settled on StoryMaps. However, the limit of 100 points option means that it is not viable for us.

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

OwenGeo — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:04:18 GMT

@KBERG_EGLE -- Thanks for sharing this idea. We will monitor it to see how many other people vote and comment on it.

Can you share what maximum number of points would meet your needs?

For now, one thing you could try is separating your points into multiple regions and making several different tours (all with <100 points). You could add all the tours to the same story and provide headings and story navigation to jump to each one, or you could create separate stories for each tour and add them to a collection.

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

KBERG_EGLE — Mon, 24 May 2021 14:45:56 GMT

@OwenGeo Unknown. The potential would be for this project to continue indefinitely with the goal to add sites as they come up (~20 per year).

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

BridgetN — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:03:08 GMT

@OwenGeo Having the same problem. We have several virtual byways with over 100 points. In trying to convert them to the new StoryMap Map Tour format we learned that we were limited to 100 points. For byways like ours, breaking them up into regions wouldn't make sense. For now we will leave our virtual byways in the old format, but really hope that the point limit will increase for Map Tours.

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

KBERG_EGLE — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:39:28 GMT

@BridgetN FWIW, we've built an experience builder app/survey123 solution that basically replicates the story map but has pretty unlimited points. Create the fields you're interested in in the survey (and include a picture question!) and then use the layer from that survey to populate your experience builder. we have a map on the left and on the right, view 1 = list of the sites and view 2 = site details, so when a point on the map or the list is selected, the view 2 pops up with the details. When we make this public I'll share it here. It'd be a lot easier if Esri StoryMaps just increased their point limits, but this is a good hack.

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

BridgetN — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:02:16 GMT

Thanks!

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

OwenGeo — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:42:29 GMT

In the Sept 8 release of ArcGIS StoryMaps, the limit for data-driven tours (tours created using a feature service) was increased.

The previous limit was 100 places. While the number of places initially shown in the tour remains at 100, there are two new options under Maximum places on the Filter & Sort tab to show 150 or 200 places.

For more information, see What’s new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (September 2021) (esri.com)

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks - Status changed to: Implemented

OwenGeo — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:41:36 GMT

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

BridgetN — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:34:01 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

Stefanobruscoli — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:14:38 GMT

Hello

There’s news for this post? Limit of 100 points is a great problem for my job

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

OwenGeo — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:08:32 GMT

@Stefanobruscoli -- Yes there is news -- see the posts right above yours. 🙂

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

Stefanobruscoli — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:16:57 GMT

OwenGeo thanks for replay, but the solotion is only for data-driven tour. I hope that will possible also for a map tour withot data-diven map, this for me have some other limits.

it will be possible to have more than 100 points also for the stories with base map?

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

OwenGeo — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:12:14 GMT

@Stefanobruscoli -- For performance reasons, manually created tours are limited to 100 points, and we don't currently have plans to increase this limit.

Could you share some more information about the other limits you mentioned so we can understand your workflow and what your needs are? One idea that I could suggest is that you create a Survey123 form to generate the feature service of place information for your tour since you have so many points to include.

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

Stefanobruscoli — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:07:00 GMT

Hello OwenGeo

this is my job:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/933a3265b17b45b6b3e4eb90611df500

For my city town government I must deploy this app for show all the job made from 2014. There's about 150 point. Each card, for a single job have many photo and with many info: type, cost, designer, job director ecc. For me isn't possible to give this info with a feature layer or using Survey123, I also have this info.

For my personal experience Storymap is a great product, and with 100 points no performance problem. Please can I have in my Arcgis Online subscription a trial for at lest 150 points? As if where a betatester.....

Re: Allow more than 100 points for Map Tour Blocks

OwenGeo — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:58:07 GMT

@Stefanobruscoli -- Thanks for sharing that example and the additional information.

Since this idea is marked as IMPLEMENTED, I would recommend that you create a new idea here on the ideas board specifically referring to manually created map tours and the reasons you prefer to or have to use that mechanism for creating your tour. That way other members of the community can upvote it and add comments about how important this might be to them so we can have more information on how to prioritize this request with our other development efforts.

For now, when you have more than 100 places to show you can add multiple tours to a single story. Perhaps you can group the places into different tours based on geographic location or category (it looks like the places have categories)? At the beginning of the story, you could insert an overview web map that shows all the places on the same map, if needed. Then each tour would show a single category of places.

One more recommendation, with so many places in each explorer tour we recommend using the widest panel size to reduce the amount of scrolling the reader needs to do when navigating through the story.