I'm new to Story Maps. I'm trying to make a space for my 200+ hikes with links to my photo albums. I have two questions.
Thanks for any insights you may have!
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Hi Ryan
1. Adding an "All" tab can be done and is done quite often: https://piedmont.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=0808caf92ffa4af6a5bdd1bd6fa927e6
I personally don't recommend it though because it means the first thing your users see (if you make it the first tab) is your most cluttered map, and Shortlist is good at slicing up what would otherwise be a lot of points into theme-based sets. If you have 200+ hikes that is a lot of points to display all at once and may scare people off before they get the hang of your other tabs, and may be a bit slow at drawing. We don't provide an automatic way to group everything into one tab (because we didn't want to make it too easy to do ). To create an 'All' tab you should use the Shortlist creation workflow where you assemble your places in a point layer or spreadsheet, so you can duplicate all your records, add that to a web map, and then create your Shortlist from that web map (more info).
2. You can add GPX/KML to an ArcGIS Online web map and create your Shortlist using that web map, or alternatively add that data to the web map that your Shortlist is already using (if you go to My Stories and find your Shortlist, expand it, and click on its Maps tab, there's a button for editing the web map so you can add additional supporting layers into it, like hiking trails). I found this example from Utah County, Utah in the Shortlist Gallery where they have added the hiking trails to their Shortlist: http://utahcounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=4191561281c840f9a86a338a972bed5b They have set scale rules in the web map for the line features so they only appear when you zoom in close to avoid cluttering up the map, There's not a way to just draw the hiking trail when a particular place is selected but that is a very cool idea, and I'm making a note of that: there could be lots of uses for that. We would like to enhance Shortlist so that certain supporting layers are only shown when certain tabs are selected, so in the Utah map they could just show the Difficult trail lines on the map when the Difficult Trail tab is selected.
Here are a couple more hiking/trails examples I found, both created with the first version of Shortlist:
http://kygeonet.ky.gov/StoryMaps/RedbirdCrestTrail/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rocviewer/shortlist-storytelling-template-js-master-3/index.html
Hope that helps
Rupert
Hi Ryan
1. Adding an "All" tab can be done and is done quite often: https://piedmont.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=0808caf92ffa4af6a5bdd1bd6fa927e6
I personally don't recommend it though because it means the first thing your users see (if you make it the first tab) is your most cluttered map, and Shortlist is good at slicing up what would otherwise be a lot of points into theme-based sets. If you have 200+ hikes that is a lot of points to display all at once and may scare people off before they get the hang of your other tabs, and may be a bit slow at drawing. We don't provide an automatic way to group everything into one tab (because we didn't want to make it too easy to do ). To create an 'All' tab you should use the Shortlist creation workflow where you assemble your places in a point layer or spreadsheet, so you can duplicate all your records, add that to a web map, and then create your Shortlist from that web map (more info).
2. You can add GPX/KML to an ArcGIS Online web map and create your Shortlist using that web map, or alternatively add that data to the web map that your Shortlist is already using (if you go to My Stories and find your Shortlist, expand it, and click on its Maps tab, there's a button for editing the web map so you can add additional supporting layers into it, like hiking trails). I found this example from Utah County, Utah in the Shortlist Gallery where they have added the hiking trails to their Shortlist: http://utahcounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=4191561281c840f9a86a338a972bed5b They have set scale rules in the web map for the line features so they only appear when you zoom in close to avoid cluttering up the map, There's not a way to just draw the hiking trail when a particular place is selected but that is a very cool idea, and I'm making a note of that: there could be lots of uses for that. We would like to enhance Shortlist so that certain supporting layers are only shown when certain tabs are selected, so in the Utah map they could just show the Difficult trail lines on the map when the Difficult Trail tab is selected.
Here are a couple more hiking/trails examples I found, both created with the first version of Shortlist:
http://kygeonet.ky.gov/StoryMaps/RedbirdCrestTrail/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rocviewer/shortlist-storytelling-template-js-master-3/index.html
Hope that helps
Rupert