National Caves and Karst Day

[BernSzukalski]

Today, June 6th, 2019, is National Caves and Karst Day. You'll find lots of commercial caves and National Park caves holding special events today.

I took a quick look for cave and karst related maps and apps on ArcGIS Online, here's the search links.

Maps: 

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=caves&start=1&num=20&restrict=false&focus=maps

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=karst&start=1&num=20&restrict=false&focus=maps

Apps: 

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=caves&start=1&num=20&restrict=false&focus=applications

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=karst&start=1&num=20&restrict=false&focus=applications

Scenes:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=karst&start=1&num=20&restrict=false&focus=scenes

What are you doing with cave and karst GIS and digital mapping on this day? Share your stories!

[KarlBurt]

Hi Bernie, I liked the Cave Loop app, Ive been working on a Samoa Cave Story (hope to show you soon), but the thumbnails only come up as a 'boken picture' icon in my Samoa app and not a picture like on your cave loop. When I click on my app it does reveal the full pic...is there any reason the thumbnail doesn't work?  (Ive tried on public shareable on google drive and google photos, and saved in Arconline)

[BernSzukalski]

Karl - I'll look forward to seeing your upcoming storymap. As for the photos, all should work just fine. For ArcGIS Online you'll need to share the photo publicly, then grab the public URL in the lower right of the item overview page for it.

For other cloud storage, you need to make sure that you are grabbing the URL that points to the source - in other words, the URL should end in .jpg, .png, etc. Lots of cloud storage alternatives will present photos in a proprietary viewer, which can't be opened in a pop-up, but can be linked from a pop-up. Depending on your storage choice, that permalink URL pointing to the source might be a bit tricky to find, but usually the embed code will have it if nothing else does.

Regardless of where you store things, it's always useful to include a link to the larger, higher res photo anyway. 

If you need additional help, feel free to contact me directly at bszukalski@esri.com.