Pro 3.5 at the time of writing.
I've noticed over the last few months that map notes are really weird.
For example, the layer created from map notes was not viable to be used in a spatial map series, even though adding in the polygons directly was fine (now fixed in 3.7).
Similarly, you can't upload a Map notes layer as a web layer. (Maybe this got fixed in 3.7? I won't be there for at least 4 months)
Today while doing some poking, I noticed the following:
- Background: inside an APRX file, each map has a folder, and within the folder is a series of JSON files corresponding to each layer.
- They used to be XML files until Pro 3.X
- Map notes do not appear in the map's folder.
- Instead, map notes layer appears as a separate folder inside the aprx file.
- Inside, the layer definition file is an XML, although the contents are actually in JSON format.
So, why are they set up this way, instead of behaving like a normal layer?
