topic Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know. in Classic Esri Story Maps Questions

Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images are not working. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:49:12 GMT

Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know. https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=9497dbc933bc46efacc5236722cebde6

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:34:01 GMT

Hi Alexa,

Which images are not showing up for you? I just glanced through the whole story map and did not see any issues. I am using Chrome and I am in the United States, so maybe that makes a difference?

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:48:16 GMT

When I scrolling down after the main title, a few stated "this content is not accessible" in the beginning. But at the end of scroll, maps/ images are working fine.

I used chrome, firefox, and IE. All up to date.

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:54:08 GMT

PS I am in the United States.

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:56:54 GMT

That's interesting. Does this happen every time? Or was it a one-time thing? And you're saying that after you scroll down and back up, the images are there without issue?

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

OwenGeo — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:21:57 GMT

Hi Alexis -- I just tried this story and it seems to be working as expected for me. Are you still experiencing an issue?

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:03:44 GMT

I am still having an issue. Please advise.

It is working show images/maps only after "Intactness Area" part.

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

RupertEssinger — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:31:52 GMT

Hi Alexis. I noticed that in that particular story, one of the images that doesn't load for you is on imgur so perhaps that site is blocked where you are browsing from currently. For example try and open that image in a separate web browser.
http://i.imgur.com/3VSFcgL.jpg outside of the story map. It may be blocked there.

Thanks for raising this issue. We'll contact the author of this story map and recommend that they upload those images into the story instead of referencing them via a URL. That will avoid any similar issues and also optimize the image too.

Rupert

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:16:31 GMT

Yes, I checked imgur website and it is blocked. Please try to make this public access to private and public sectors especially government places. Thank you again.

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:21:07 GMT

Alexis,

Imgur is a separate service from what Esri uses. Governments will always block sites like these. The only way around it is to have the map developer use a different site (like upload directly to ArcGIS Online) or have your network people allow certain sites (which likely won't happen).

Out of curiosity, which government are you with (state, local, fed, etc.)? Can you view pictures from sites like Flickr.com Google Photos and other photo hosting sites? This info would be good to know for people who make story maps and share them with governments.

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:48:31 GMT

Local Government. -Use flickr.com on website. I checked on google photos website. These both websites don't blocked. I recent checked with picasa and it is moving to Google photos. (see screenshot) I noticed some story map builders are still provide picasa. (see another screenshot). Is there any way to share some of your ESRI samples that is not blocked to government?

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images/maps are not working to show. Here is the link. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:03:16 GMT

So it looks like all of the 'recommended' sites from Esri work for you? I wonder why the story map developers chose to go a different route. Maybe someone (like ressinger-esristaff‌) should get in touch with these developers and inform them about best practices for Esri Story Maps...

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images are not working. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

RupertEssinger — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:59:43 GMT

Thanks Adrian Welsh‌.

We recommend to people authoring story maps that they drag and drop their images directly into the story map. That optimizes the images and ensures they will be accessible to all users and won't be blocked or go offline. With the support we have now in our apps for uploading photos directly into story maps, there's no need to use third-party sites for image hosting. In the case of an image on a site like imgur that you want to include in a story map, we recommend downloading that image to disk and then uploading it into the story rather than referencing it via a URL.

The Story Map apps have built-in support for pointing at images in Flickr and Google Plus/Picasa (although Google Plus/Picasa support is in flux currently and our support for them isn't as smooth as our Flickr support). This support is intended to be useful for individuals and organizations that are already using those to share photos, particularly Flickr. For example if an organization's public affairs department is using Flickr to share photos, then this way those images can be seamlessly and easily used in Story Maps, and that also takes advantage automatically of Flickr's image size optimization. The Flickr workflow also supports captions and geotags stored with the image in Flickr, so it can be very easy to create a Story Map Tour or Story Map Shortlist using pictures in a Flickr album in a few clicks.

Authors can also reference any image on the web directly via URLs, like the images on the imgur website mentioned in this thread. This is useful, for example, if your organization already has images on its website that you want to include directly in a story map. It can also be useful if you want to reuse the same set of images in multiple story maps. However, we don't recommend this approach because the images aren't optimized, so a very large slow loading image will be slow in your story map too. Also some sites might be blocked for some users, like we saw in this thread. And images on the web may move or be deleted.

Hope that helps

Rupert

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images are not working. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

RupertEssinger — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:58:00 GMT

Jennifer Bell‌ has updated the Seeing Green Infrastructure story map now to remove the links to graphics on Imgur. She was using HTTP in those links and that was returning an unsafe scripts message in her story, which also helps explain the blocking people were seeing. Changing those image links to be HTTPS would solve that issue but she saved the images to disk and uploaded them into the Cascade instead, so they are no longer referenced via URLs. This has the advantage of optimizing the images too (one of them was 3mb when accessed via a URL) for best performance, and also ensures the image link can't break (because it is now stored in the story).

Rupert

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images are not working. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:44:45 GMT

Nice work Rupert and Jennifer! I am glad this was accomplished so quickly!

Re: Story Map Cascade ESRI - some images are not working. Can someone please fix this? This is very interesting and I would like to share it. Please let me know.

AlexP_ — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:42:07 GMT

It is working great. Thank you !