Public Maps Gallery template version 1.4 --Opening post

[Esriwebmap]

Please reply to this opening post to submit questions and comments about the Public Maps Gallery (PMG) template version 1.4.

[MiguelParedes]

Hi Miguel,

Yes, that should be possible. It's not currently an option but I'll see if I can get that included in an update. It would just have to find the center of the map before the resize and then reset the center after.

Thanks

That's great team,  many thanks.

[DavidZiff]

We have been slowly developing our site and have made a few of our maps public and such for testing purposes; they may be seen here:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

That being said - we are having some rather significant issues with the Android App.

1)  The App fills 'no fill' polygons.  I have not tried to fill it with 100% transparency yet but that may be a work around.

2)  Points are being drawn from the services which should not.  We fine tune all of our symbology but we are getting a lot of red circles with black outlines scattered across the map.  I do not have an android phone in office for testing and will on Friday and will provide more information at that point.  And of course - there may be a workaround but simply - features not being displayed by the service are being displayed by the app.  I presuppose this has to do with features in feature classes not being given symbol (b/c we don't want them drawn anyway) and then the App defaults to the red fill black outline symbol - kind-of like when it fills no fill polys.  Again - I may be able to prescribe an 'all else' symbol w/ 100% transparency as above.

3) We are having problems similar to past iphone issues where the client selects a map on the public map gallery and then is directed always to the first map viewed and unless the user goes into the app and joins our group and then selects the maps off-site without the public maps gallery, the user may only then select a new map and the features will draw.  Otherwise the map often comes up blank.

We tested the android app with the site on a Galaxy S and Galaxy SII (4G)

I will test the two workarounds but this probably needs to be fixed in the app as it draws fine for apple.

Thanks again, DZ

[MiguelParedes]

Greetings PMG team,

Does the app. recognises what viewer is set within a group?  My group has a mixture of web maps set to be viewed with the AGOL Viewer, AGXOL, and one in AGXOL presentation mode.  However, when I point my PMG to the group, all maps are available through the default AGOL viewer only. 
This seems to work, as the folks from Ofallon show this works on their implementation of a PMG. In their PMG, the second map in the first page does have the following URL type -> http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=<webmap id>

Am I correct in assuming that the app senses what viewer a map uses and generates the appropriate URL?  Or is this something that needs to be set up manually in the configuration somewhere? If the latter is the case, would you please point me in the right direction on where to set up?

Many thanks in advance for the help.

[Parish_ofAscension]

Hi,
I have couple of questions. I have my GIS data organized using ESRI's Local Government Information Model in ArcSDE 10SP3. I will be using ArcGIS server to publish data from ArcSDE.

Question1: If I use Public Maps Gallery template to publish maps coming from my ArcGIS server, how are the client requests passed through? If an end user hits the map page, will the request go to ArcGIS.com then routed to my ArcGIS server?

Question2: Is it possible to configure multiple searches (address, parcel, subdivision) in public maps gallery? Please let me know if there are any documentation on this topic.

Appreciate your help.
Thanks
VJ

[MiguelParedes]

Greetings from Esri UK team,

On the PMG pages for the latest release, 1.4.1, the first line of the changes for this version reads "Support for using the template with private ArcGIS.com groups and items".  Would you please explain how would this implemented?

Many thanks in advance.

[Esriwebmap]

We have been slowly developing our site and have made a few of our maps public and such for testing purposes; they may be seen here:

http://www.bexar.org/maps

That being said - we are having some rather significant issues with the Android App.

1)  The App fills 'no fill' polygons.  I have not tried to fill it with 100% transparency yet but that may be a work around.

2)  Points are being drawn from the services which should not.  We fine tune all of our symbology but we are getting a lot of red circles with black outlines scattered across the map.  I do not have an android phone in office for testing and will on Friday and will provide more information at that point.  And of course - there may be a workaround but simply - features not being displayed by the service are being displayed by the app.  I presuppose this has to do with features in feature classes not being given symbol (b/c we don't want them drawn anyway) and then the App defaults to the red fill black outline symbol - kind-of like when it fills no fill polys.  Again - I may be able to prescribe an 'all else' symbol w/ 100% transparency as above.

3) We are having problems similar to past iphone issues where the client selects a map on the public map gallery and then is directed always to the first map viewed and unless the user goes into the app and joins our group and then selects the maps off-site without the public maps gallery, the user may only then select a new map and the features will draw.  Otherwise the map often comes up blank.

We tested the android app with the site on a Galaxy S and Galaxy SII (4G)

I will test the two workarounds but this probably needs to be fixed in the app as it draws fine for apple.

Thanks again, DZ

Thanks for the feedback David. I'll look into these issues.

[Esriwebmap]

Greetings PMG team,

Does the app. recognises what viewer is set within a group?  My group has a mixture of web maps set to be viewed with the AGOL Viewer, AGXOL, and one in AGXOL presentation mode.  However, when I point my PMG to the group, all maps are available through the default AGOL viewer only. 
This seems to work, as the folks from Ofallon show this works on their implementation of a PMG. In their PMG, the second map in the first page does have the following URL type -> http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=<webmap id>

Am I correct in assuming that the app senses what viewer a map uses and generates the appropriate URL?  Or is this something that needs to be set up manually in the configuration somewhere? If the latter is the case, would you please point me in the right direction on where to set up?

Many thanks in advance for the help.

Hi Miguel,

It doesn't. It doesn't know which viewer to use unfortunately. That may be something you can set with some javascript coding. It would have to detect which kind of ArcGIS item it is and then use the appropriate URL for that item. Currently, it just opens with one viewer and opens external urls without a viewer.

Thanks

[Esriwebmap]

Hi,
I have couple of questions. I have my GIS data organized using ESRI's Local Government Information Model in ArcSDE 10SP3. I will be using ArcGIS server to publish data from ArcSDE.

Question1: If I use Public Maps Gallery template to publish maps coming from my ArcGIS server, how are the client requests passed through? If an end user hits the map page, will the request go to ArcGIS.com then routed to my ArcGIS server?

Question2: Is it possible to configure multiple searches (address, parcel, subdivision) in public maps gallery? Please let me know if there are any documentation on this topic.

Appreciate your help.
Thanks
VJ

1. Yes, I believe that's how it works. This template uses ArcGIS web maps and items so that information is coming from ArcGIS.com and then gets routed to your server.

2. You may be able to do this but it would require javascript coding to the template. You should be able to replace the search locator with another or add another level to it.

Thanks

[Esriwebmap]

Greetings from Esri UK team,

On the PMG pages for the latest release, 1.4.1, the first line of the changes for this version reads "Support for using the template with private ArcGIS.com groups and items".  Would you please explain how would this implemented?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi Miguel,

1.4.1 adds support for private groups and private items. So, if you have a group or item on ArcGIS.com that is private, not public, you can use the group or item with this template by generating an ArcGIS.com token which allows access to the private group/item from the URL which you are hosting the template. The tokens are tied to an account, URL and expiration date.

You can use the tool that I've created to create a token or you can generate the token yourself using the ArcGIS.com REST API.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks

[DavidAlford1]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12362[/ATTACH]I have attached 2 of the config files and a screenshot of the message.

Hi David,

Does your group have any web maps in it?

Can you post your config file and I'll see if I can diagnose the problem.

Thanks