Latest Contributions by MikeMinami

The iPhone app only shows items that can be viewed on the iPhone, primarily web maps. As mxd files only work with ArcGIS Desktop, they will only show up when viewing your content from arcgis.com in a web browser. Thanks, Mike ... View more

What's your definition of a "reasonable" amount of data. 🙂 The data you've uploaded creates a 6MB web map, which is big (for web browsers). This data has to be downloaded and drawn on the browser. This won't work at all in IE as you've experienced because it's more than IE can handle. Chrome and Safari will be fastest, Firefox next. The short term solution is to generalize your data before uploading it (you can do this with ArcGIS Desktop). Even though your data may not look like a lot, it really depends on the amount of vertices in the lines. Generalizing the data could significantly reduce the size. By next week, we will have released an update to arcgis.com that will allow you to generalize the data in the web app. You'll see an option on the "Add data from file" dialog box. (Also, you won't be able to add this same shapefile next week because of its size, as we'll be setting a size limit for exactly these performance reasons you've encountered.) Can you share your shapefile with us for testing purposes? Thanks, Mike ... View more

What exactly did you upload to My Content? Are you trying to add what you uploaded to a map? Thanks, Mike ... View more

Gareth, I still can't access your WMS. I'm trying to get the capabilities and make sure that the GetMap tag has the proper URL that includes the port number. [HTML]http://geoserver.ecsecc.org:80/geoserver/topp/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities[/HTML] Perhaps you can provide the proper URL or check the GetMap tag. Thanks, Mike ... View more

Gareth, I can't seem to connect to your service at all...is it secured or something? If either of you can expose the service so we can test out the port number problem, that would be help us. Thanks, Mike ... View more

I've reproduced your problem and have logged a report. If you set the scale dependency on the layer itself, not the group layer, it should work. Thanks, Mike ... View more

I can reproduce the issue. We're investigating the problem. Thanks, Mike ... View more

Can you share your map, or provide the REST url to the service you are using? I've tried embedding various maps with scale dependent layers and they work. I suspect the problem might be related to having group layers. Are you setting the scale dependency on the group layer or on the individual layers inside the group? My guess is that we're not respecting scale dependency set on the group. So you might try setting it on the specific layers... Mike ... View more

Unfortunately, you can't add an individual layer from a map service as an item to "My Content". Mike ... View more

The getcapabilities file is too big to download and parse in a web browser. Thus, you end up with a timeout in the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer. You can alternatively use ArcGIS Explorer Online, which runs in a web browser but utilizes the Silverlight plug in to first author your map. At the top of the application, click the Add Content button Enter this string in the search box: http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/wms Click Add and select the layers to add. Save your map. Go back to ArcGIS.com and open your map in the map viewer. thanks, Mike ... View more

It is possible. However, my question is why do you want to do this? In looking at your map service, it seems like you have several layers of biological data, however, they are somewhat disparate in nature. Another approach would be to author more than one map service and put those layers in it that you're likely to use together to "mash-up" on the web. For example, you might put your seabird layers in one map service, the bear sightings in another and the public oyster areas in a third. Having said this, here's the answer to your question. From the Add menu on the map, choose the Add layer from Web option. Choose the ArcGIS Server Web Service option and enter the URL you specify below ...MapServer/2.  However, adding a layer in this fashion will probably lead to other questions that will  require you to understand more about the ArcGIS Online system, ArcGIS Server, and web browsers. ArcGIS Server map services typically return images (either cached or dynamic) to a client (like ArcGIS.com map viewer). All layers are drawn based on what the service author defined in the map the service was created from. The server takes a snapshot of the desired map extent and returns this image to the client, and the client displays it. When you add an individual layer from a map service to the map viewer, you essentially bypass the image creation. Instead, the map viewer sends a query for the actual data of the layer and draws the layer's features on the client, in this case the browser. Most map services (yours included) use the default query limit of 1000 features. So, you won't be able to get all the features you might expect. And in reality, you really don't want increase the query limit, as it would start to put a load on your server. Also, it's a lot of data to be passed across the wire. It can help to define scale visibility limits in the map viewer. Also, you just get the geometry of the features in the query, so you have to set up the drawing of the features on the client as well (note that both of these are available on the content menu of the layer in the TOC of the map viewer). OK, so that's what the server and map viewer are doing. Now you have to consider the web browser. The web browser can only handle drawing so many features. Really, as you start to get over 1000 polygons, things will probably slow down--especially in IE. And if you want to add 2 or 3 layers, you could be talking about drawing 2000-3000 polygons. It probably won't perform well. Here's a recent ArcGIS Server blog post that discusses this. http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2011/06/23/Determining-limits-for-map-graphics.aspx Hope this helps you understand what's going, Mike ... View more

No the embed capability is not built into the API... Mike ... View more

What browser and version are you using? You might try a different browser You can resize the left panel by dragging the bar between the map and the panel. Does that do anything? I'm guessing that your computer is localized as well. If you run in English, do you see a problem? Hope this helps, Mike ... View more

Splitting up the shapefile won't really help you. The solution is to either create a web service out of the shapefile (by publishing it to ArcGIS Server) or finding a service out there already. When you add a shapefile to a web map, the browser draws the features. The 1000 feature limit isn't on a per-layer basis. The total of ALL layers that you add to the map that are being drawn by the browser should be less than 1000. Actually, this feature limit is an estimate. If you have complex line or polygon geometry with a lot of vertices, the limit will be less. It's due to the browser's ability to handle the drawing. Mike ... View more

The zoom levels are controlled by the basemap. If you use the provided basemaps, then you're kind of stuck with the zoom level of the basemap. You could use your own cached basemap, and that would control the zoom levels. If the basemap were dynamic, you still might be able to zoom in. I've not tried that myself, however. Mike ... View more