Crowdsource disable Locate Me and Find on Map

[CPoynter]

Hi,

I am using the standard template for the Crowdsource (beta) story map. Would like to see enhancement to enable 'Locate Me' and 'Find on Map' to be disabled as an option to protect the privacy of submissions (ie. address location). Ideally a check box in configuration or within JSON to set True/False to disable these functions.

I have been advised downloading the underlying code and customising and hosting myself would enable this ability, but I don't currently have a server to host content, so relying on ArcGIS Online standard templates.

Regards,

Craig

[StephenSylvia · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your feedback. We have heard similar feedback from other users that they would like to protect user privacy. Instead of removing the "locate" and "find on map" buttons we are considering an option to generalize locations to the closest admin boundary centroid. For example if a user chooses a home address, that point would automatically get moved to the city centroid. Would this be a viable solution for your privacy needs?

[CPoynter]

Moving home address to either suburb or city centroid would be perfect. How would this work in more remote areas though where a rural home address (farm)may be a large distance from a city location?

[CPoynter]

Hi Stephen,

Not related to my original post (unsure where to post), but could the Story Map team consider adding some form of calendar to the Crowdsource beta to allow for when submissions will be suspended instead of requiring submissions to be manually turned off?

Regards,

Craig

[StephenSylvia]

Sure, we'll consider that feature for a future version.