Latest Contributions by BernSzukalski

‎02-18-2020

ArcGIS Experience Builder was officially released this morning. Here's a few blog articles and resources to help you get started building your experiences. Release announcement ArcGIS Experience Builder provides users with a new way of creating web experience. Easily transform your data into web apps and web pages. Learn about what was just released, including key new and improved features since beta. Product overview at esri.com Everything you need to know from a high level about ArcGIS Experience Builder. Explains how it works and includes links to a variety of resources. Concepts and Overview A blog article with an overview of the ArcGIS Experience Builder user interface, and the tools and settings you will work with. ArcGIS Experience Builder Help Everything from what it is, to essential concepts, to how to create your first experience. Includes details on each widget and how to configure them. Get started with ArcGIS Experience Builder: Foldable template A blog tutorial that steps you through building a simple appcentric experience using the Foldable template. See how easy it is to use a template to create your first experience. Get started with ArcGIS Experience Builder: Gallery template A blog tutorial that steps you through building a simple pagecentric experience using the Gallery template. Get started with ArcGIS Experience Builder: Sync maps This tutorial steps you through how to sync 2D and 3D maps using triggers and actions. Experience it for yourself Ready to dive in? Build your own experience by signing in with your ArcGIS credentials at the ArcGIS Experience Builder landing page.

‎01-09-2020

Matienzo is both the name of a village, as well as a karst area, in northern Spain. The public domain project data for the area was obtained to create this ArcGIS Online app. The app shows cave and karst feature locations, along with cave survey lineplots. View the app. The legend acts as a filter; click to filter on a feature type. The number indicates how many features of that type are within the current map area. Click a location and follow the More info... link to tap into the project database for details. How the app was made The data was obtained as KMZ files from the project website, and was manipulated in Google Earth, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online. The point locations were further manipulated using filter and calculate functions in ArcGIS Online, as well as some data wrangling using Notepad to remove legacy attribute tags from the original HTML document produced in the project's CMS to produce the results shown in the app. The cave lineplots were published from shapefiles, the locations from a CSV. The app used to display the data is the Interactive Legend configurable app.

‎01-07-2020

A deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico on Tuesday, leaving one man dead and residents worried about the potential for collapse of their homes. The quake caused dozens of homes and structures to crumble, and cut power and water service to major portions of the island. The Esri Disaster Response Program (DRP) site includes maps that use ArcGIS Living Atlas content to show earthquakes and other events like flooding, hurricanes, severe weather, fires, and more. You'll also find links to request assistance if needed. Here's a map using Living Atlas live feeds showing recent earthquakes in the area. For more information see: Esri Disaster Response Program (DRP) DRP Earthquake App Living Atlas earthquake live feeds

‎01-07-2020

Extreme heat and a prolonged drought have generated unprecedented large-scale fires in many parts of Australia, especially in its southeast. Last year was the driest and hottest year on record in Australia, a fact that has literally fueled the fire season. As of today, over 12 million acres have burned, dozens of people have perished, many thousands of residents are homeless, and many hundreds of millions of mammals, birds, and reptiles have been impacted. Using ArcGIS Living Atlas live feeds and imagery, we can learn more about the fires. For more information see Use ArcGIS Living Atlas to view Australia fires.

‎12-29-2019

Not to worry, it's a fake cave name. It's also the fake cave name you might find if you dug deeper behind the app to uncover the web map and image layer. The map is also not georeferenced in proper real-world coordinates, rather is in true-scale page space (more or less). So all is good in the world of cave secrecy. All that plus the cave is now well-gated.

‎11-05-2019

The Esri Ocean and Atmospheric Forum is taking place this week on the Esri Campus in Redlands California, bringing together a community of atmospheric and ocean professionals to share advances in data collection, analysis, and understanding oceans and atmosphere. Here's a collection of story maps and apps that cover ocean and atmospheric content. Several of these will be on display in the Geo Experience Center (GeoXC) on the agenda for a tour on Wednesday afternoon. These story maps and apps, as well as many more maps and layers, covering oceans and atmosphere are part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, and can be discovered via search at: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/browse/#d=2&categories=Environment:1101000000 Coral Bleaching dashboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/84ba9c03786e462d960e3172bc1b2204 Under the Ocean's hood https://apl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=85b1ed27663442cfaac101b78f59fdae Seafloor Investigator https://esrioceans.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=4405b923c3254b34973ecf791fa01ba2 Ocean temperature https://esrioceans.maps.arcgis.com/apps/TimeAware/index.html?appid=f4da876dce3a4ce58b165a3e4eb6819e Sea Ice Aware app https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/sea-ice/ Discovering Deep-Sea Corals https://geoplatform.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=6df5d4b48efb4602b2178effba70e98d Living Atlas ocean data story map https://esrioceans.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=dc88bfd8cc2d4467ab67700c9cb7b42a Seamount classification http://www.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=ae4156bb0bec48aa82594eae453e453d The Ocean https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=70f95ebd47754b1a905459a14387e198 Marine Unit explorer https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/emu/?lat=37.91856912887375&lng=-122.43760054900704&zoom=3.1278911834245466 NOAA Atmospheric Rivers https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=2871beb71aae4542a63b31157c4dce3b Twister dashboard http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2014/tornadoes/ Precipitation forecast app https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/precipitation/ Severe weather dashboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/94054353efa943b781cc5d6176ca8283 Typhoon Haiyan https://notredamecobham.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=bba35e41b8da423498ae3bf461e161c8 Hurricane Harvey https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=37cc94c4b6944fe39aa296f58636b29f 10 most damaging hurricanes https://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=50aea84a9853491f994f775cb989ea92 Tornado https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=e4ae5b57cf9045288909a93cc31cde7c Tropical cyclones https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=197837baeb0046aaa91cf3fc4d62d44d Atlas for a Changing Planet http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2015/atlas-for-a-changing-planet/ California Drought https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=0307d687789c4d1cbec397d0abc2fffc ARGO Float Status dashboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/7665489fbc6d44bc95d47dc041c1c034

‎09-17-2019

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.

‎08-25-2019

The destructive fires in the Amazon are causing global concern, and are in the news...So here's a really quick app leveraging ArcGIS Online and Living Atlas content that provides a closer look. It took about about 5 minutes to come up with this very simple app, shown below: The Amazon Basin boundary is from WWF, as found on ArcGIS Online by searching for "Amazon Basin." While I'd take off a few points in my Best Practices workshop for this profile and item description, it was enough to convince me it was authoritative. MODIS hotspots are from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Just search for "MODIS" in Living Atlas when authoring your web map. The basemap is the Firefly basemap, one of my favs, and part of the Living Atlas collection. If your organization uses the Esri Vector Basemaps, you'll find it in your Basemap Gallery. Symbols used to show the hotspots are from the Firefly symbol set. The configurable app used in this example is Media Map, available via the web map sharing and Create Web App workflow, in the Showcase A Map category tab.

‎07-19-2019

Attachment Viewer is a new (as of the July, 2019, ArcGIS Online release) configurable app. It's intended to provide an easy way to browse feature layer attachments of all types - images, photos, documents, videos, and more. It can be used to view photos captured with Collector for ArcGIS, Survey123, QuickCapture, and other field and desktop apps. Learn more by reading Browse feature layer attachments using Attachment Viewer in the ArcGIS blog. You can also view the Esri Campus Locations sample app. One of the nice capabilities of the app is that you can navigate to any feature, and browse to any attachment, and can share the location and attachment via URL, shortlink, Facebook, and Twitter.

‎06-11-2019

With recent data compiled by the USGS, the WNS maps and Story Map have been updated. The update includes new reports from Texas, Washington, Minnesota, and several Canadian provinces. Story Map Interactive map How the maps are made The Story Map uses the Story Map Journal, and embeds two Story Map Series and the Time Aware configurable app. The interactive map shown above uses the sharing preview of the map in the Minimalist configurable app. For more information on this "quick share" technique, see Quickly share your map using an app.

‎06-06-2019

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!

‎06-02-2019

Too many maps, apps, or Story Maps that are otherwise great, have suffered from poorly crafted or unconfigured pop-ups. Even the very best GIS and digital mapping pros often overlook the importance, and ease, by which great layer pop-ups can be made. Pop-ups are equally important as thinking about how you present your map data. We typically think about cartography, and smart mapping provides great tools and guidance to help us make better maps, but all too often those great maps are spoiled by poor pop-ups. Pop-ups are an equally important part of the overall map experience, and deserving of no less attention than other aspects of your maps. They are a very important and integral part of the presentation of information in your maps, and can turn a dull and dopey dump of attributes into a far more meaningful presentation of information. See the comparison below - which do you think is the better presentation of information? Updated posts With the above in mind, I've updated a series of blog posts that provide all the information you will (perhaps ever) need to craft amazing pop-ups. Pop-ups: the essentials covers all of the basics, and all of the ways you might think to present information.It includes a sample web map that covers all of the examples in the blog post. Pop-ups: custom attribute display covers everything from single-attribute pop-ups, to using HTML. It includes source HTML which you can use and modify to make your own, plus a sample web map. Pop-ups: adding charts covers the basics of adding charts, including some examples that show you how. In addition to the above, you'll find: Pop-ups: tips for adding photos - some ideas for making the most out of adding photos. Use color in pop-ups - this includes a simple Arcade example that adds color to your pop-up using a conditional statement based on attribute values. Send email from pop-ups - a nice way to leverage the power of links that include attribute values to do more from your pop-ups. And more... And you'll find more by searching Help documentation, and also searching for additional posts on the ArcGIS Blog about pop-ups. Let's make pop-ups an essential part of authoring great web maps.

‎05-03-2019

This is an example of an online cave map with links to photos. The cave is real, it was mapped and (re-) discovered during a project for Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The cave name is hidden, as is its location. Click the camera symbol to see the photos, you'll see it's a very unique and special cave. The map was scanned and then published using ArcGIS Online to scale, It's geolinked, not geo-referenced, since that made the most sense for a cave of this size. Click the camera icon to view the pop-up with a photo thumbnail. Click the thumbnail to view a larger photo. What I like about this example is that it uses the best tools for the best results. The cave map was drawn using Illustrator, and most cave maps are drawn using Illustrator or similar graphic programs. Yes, you could do this in ArcGIS Pro but it would be tedious. It's much easier to create this type of map in Illustrator, or Xara, or a similar graphics program. The map is actually geolinked (not georeferenced) to an ArcGIS Online feature layer in an online database. However it was published from ArcGIS Pro and used a technique to publish it at it's correct scale, so web map tools like Measure can be used.

‎05-03-2019

Here's a couple of examples that I put together that show different ways to manage a variety of documents associated with a feature in a hosted feature layer. The original question and subsequent example was catalyzed by someone that wanted to explore how different kinds of documents - photos, PDF files, scanned images, maps, etc. - could be associated to a specific location, in this case a cave location, or a survey station in a cave survey. This example uses a hosted feature layer with links to various document storage options - Flickr, Google Drive, an ArcGIS Online group, and two group-based configurable apps - Minimal Gallery, and Category Gallery. In my opinion the best implementation is actually the Category Gallery. Click the filter to browse the categories describing the content found in the group. This, however, was the most curative intensive approach. Perhaps the easiest were Flickr (if you are focused on photos) or Google Drive if you just need to manage a variety of documents. This next example shows all of those document types stored as attachments to the feature. All of the attachments were enabled and added using ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Pro was not used, everything was done on the ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer using layer settings, and editing capabilities in the Map Viewer. Attachments are a very powerful way to store many different kinds of document types with any feature. Which method is best? Well as usual it depends on what you need to do, your intended audience, and the workflows involved in adding documents to features and who will be managing and viewing them.

‎04-09-2019

You can use a variety of formats. In the simplest case, cave folks would use a spreadsheet (CSV) with lat/long, or perhaps a GPX file if exporting from a GPS, and use that to add to a map and/or create a hosted feature layer for use in multiple maps. If you are collecting data from field devices, then it's likely you would have set up a feature layer template in ArcGIS Online to support data collection. Besides the location information, all the rest is up to you. From my personal experience working with several gov agencies, maintaining a unique ID can be troublesome if there are multiple contributors. If there is one person responsible for compiling the master database, then this is easier. Many cave surveys and other agencies and organizations assign a unique identifier at the time data is added. While you can manage/join related tables of information based on a unique key ID, unless you are dealing with many, many attributes that approach may not be necessary, nor advantageous. That said, I also know of systems of record and workflows that do involve the management of related tables, sometimes in a completely different database. Hopefully some of the cave survey directors will chime in with their experiences and suggestions.

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