Latest Contributions by kmsmikrud

Thanks Robert and Dan for all the responses. I'm going to look into the planar versus geodesic geometry differences for how that creates such different angle output for the lines created by the respective tools. I think that is good advice Robert on its a good practice to stick with one method for a project and document which method was used.  ... View more

The cyan line is the 297 bearing using the editor direction function for editing/adding a line. The greenish line was created using that Bearing Distance to Line tool. Actually someone else put in that line and then I just tried the tool and got the very same results. If the bearing doesn't look correct in the Bearing Distance to Line tool output then why is that? The benefit of the tool when using WGS84 is being able to have it draw a line in miles whereas I'm not able to do that editing a line using direction/distance with WGS84 since decimal degrees is the units or is there a workaround. Shouldn't both of these line angles be the same? I'm working on a project that I know someone else used the Bearing Distance to Line tool quite a bit and it doesn't make me feel very confident in our lines if the angles are this far off in cases where the tool was used. ... View more

The geodesic values apply to the length correct, but shouldn't the angle of the lines be the same between the two tools? The Bearing Distance to Line says "The angles are measured clockwise from North" and in the Editor if I choose North Azimuth, the help says "the azimuth of a line is the horizontal angle measured from a meridian to the line, measured in the clockwise direction from north" and the schematic looks like a compass. Below the two lines are both originating from the same point with a bearing of 297,the cyan line is delineated based on the Editor -Direction and the green line is the Bearing Distance to Line tool using that same starting point bearing, then specifying distance in miles with a rhumb line. Like I said I know the distance isn't comparable since WGS84 doesn't have measurable distance units when editing but I feel like there must be something obvious in my methods for such a big difference? ... View more

I was using WGS84 for both the feature class line I was editing and also the Bearing Distance to Line tool. I know the distance is hard to measure with the editor directions/length since the length units but its the difference in angles that is really quite different. I have the editor set to Direction Type: North Azimuth so they should be comparable right for the angles between the two methods? ... View more

Hi Robert, I was searching and found your post regarding similar results I'm getting for drawing a line with the same bearing using the editor direction/distance compared to the Bearing Distance to Line tool. I'm really curious about the difference in angles between the lines. Did you get a response from tech support on this? Thanks, Kathy ... View more

Hi,  Did you ever get your Open Data Site to display images in Edge? I just noticed it is the same for our Open Data Site, I can see the images in other browsers but not Edge. Thanks! ... View more

Great that helps to see your methods!! Thank-you ... View more

That's a great Story Map. I also really like your formatting. I was trying to figure out where you added the HTML formatting. Did you add it in each location or do you have it incorporated into the index.html css? It looks like you have it more systematically set up than editing each text box. ... View more

Thanks Rupert. You know that might be a good idea just for having a improving the display for the front desk monitors at our office locations. We chose the shortlist over the map tour so we could add in other layers in the map (roads, trails,...etc) once a person zooms in. Also the text editor was easier to add formatting to at the time. That said I could now easily export my points/info/photo url links and  make it into a map tour for presentation purposes.  ... View more

Hi Owen and Rupert, Thanks so much for your quick replies and explanations of the Story Map template shortlist. I don't have a photo at the moment to include but I will work on that. Basically the front desk set up is a 65 " screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution at a 16:9 ratio. I will try increasing the browser zoom as a work around on a similar screen in another room here easier to test out than at the front desk. It was exciting to see up on the larger screen especially now that the shortlist includes the autoplay function but instinctively a person does want to increase the location photos. Thanks, Kathy ... View more

Hi, I have a question related to Bethany's and wonder if someone might have info on how to customize the HTML, CSS, or JavaScript to accommodate. I have Story Maps in the Shortlist template and just noticed they now have the autoplay function included. We currently have the Story Map running at times on the front desk large screen on the wall behind the counter. While the Story Map looks great on a regular computer sized screen on the monitor the size of the map looks to take up too much of the screen and it would be nice if the location photos/text could be bigger. Is there a way to include code for screens larger than......to modify the size of the location photo or ratio of the location photo to the map? The information folks thought it looked good but currently would look even better if we could modify the photo/text size in the location box. We do have the code hosted on our server but I'm not exactly sure what I would modify to get the effect we would like. Thanks in advance!, Kathy  ... View more

Hi Seth, I read your response awhile back and it gave me hope. That said I haven't been focusing too much on this lately but need to start looking at it again. I really appreciate the code example above and ideas! If you've thought of anything since then please let me know. Thanks kindly for your help! ... View more

Hi, You know we ran into a syntax error as well and I think it might just be the different symbol for single quotes in line 21 within the custom-scripts.js file....I've copied that line below. We changed those to single quotes to the regular and then it worked or that's what happened with us. console.log(`Index = ${index}`); I just thought I would share since I had forgotten about that. Thanks, Kathy ... View more

Thank-you jyaist-esristaff‌!! ... View more

Thanks Becky. I will check out the ArcGIS Online Assistant.  I didn't write my question very well though, what I'm trying to get after is the urls that I have in the Shortlist description text boxes for the actual location within the Story Map. Is there a way to get at these urls. I also will need to check the URLS of the web map services so ArcGIS Online or the API seems useful for checking multiple maps. Story Maps have a lot of urls in the text description themselves and it seems like it would be VERY useful to be able to check/see all these in the maintenance of the Story Maps. In fact it was a recent criticism I received in that it is such a manual process to update and/or just check these urls to be sure they are still valid. Does anyone have a workflow for this? Thanks!!! ... View more