Latest Contributions by BernSzukalski

Unless you've been on vacation and off the grid the last few days, you've likely seen the coverage of the massive 30-inch water main break on Sunset Boulevard near the UCLA campus in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The break has spewed over 20 million gallons of water, flooding UCLA buildings, creating a massive sinkhole in the street, and heightening awareness of the fact that California is suffering through a drought of epic proportions. As this map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows, most of the state is currently under extreme or exceptional drought conditions. The Map of the Day today is not the Drought Monitor map above, but rather a Story Map Tour that for me, at least, really drives home in just a few clicks how low water levels really are - click once to advance the tour and see for yourself. You can view the entire Story Map Tour, authored by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), to learn and see more. This simple, yet effective story map makes this the Map of the Day today. Further info: Story Maps Story Map Tour How to open a Story Map Tour at a specific tour point ... View more

During the afternoon plenary session of the Esri 2014 User Conference an app built using the recently released Story Map Journal was shown. The journal was assembled by Story Map team members Jon Bowen and Melanie Rosenberg. Here's the link to the app Learn more about the Story Map Journal application template. ... View more

A recent post covered the steps to embed a map gallery in a web page. Someone today mentioned that the HTML generated doesn't center the gallery. That's true, but it's easy enough to center it - though what you need to do will depend on your web page style and structure. In the simplest case all you need to do is add the <p> tag align attribute or CSS to center the gallery. The best way is to use CSS since the align attribute is not supported in HTML 5. For example, this HTML (copied and pasted directly from Share > Embed in Gallery): <iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/embedGallery.html? displayapps=true&displayinline=true&group=2394b887a80347fb8544610cfa30489c" style="width:720px; height:238px"> </iframe> Will result in a left justified gallery. Adding the text-align style and <p> tag as shown below will center the gallery ribbon: <p style="text-align:center"> <iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/embedGallery.html? displayapps=true&displayinline=true&group=2394b887a80347fb8544610cfa30489c" style="width:720px; height:238px"> </iframe> </p> Here's a visual in a simple test page of the results in order (the box indicates the web page margins): Again, depending on your web page formatting, your mileage may vary... ... View more

With the July 2014 ArcGIS Online update the original Basic Viewer app template was renamed Classic Viewer, and a new Basic Viewer app template appeared. You'll currently find both on the first app template gallery page: If you are looking for an app template that offers many of the capabilities of the web map viewer without the authoring, the Basic Viewer was a good choice. The new template is much improved, and I recommend you check it out - it's a nice modernization of a good all-around "work horse" template, and can be custom-configured easily. ... View more

Today I downloaded the source data from the U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1154  - Preliminary Map of Potentially Karstic Carbonate Rocks in the Central and Southern Appalachian States - and published it as tile and feature services, along with a few maps and apps. You'll find the layers via search, and you can also view the data in this app which uses the new Basic Viewer template. ... View more

Just in case you missed it in the blur of information surrounding the Esri User Conference, the Storytelling with Maps Contest winners were announced last week and posted on the Story Maps website. You'll get some great ideas and learn from these excellent examples that use a variety of different story map templates. ... View more

With the release of the new Analysis tools in the ArcGIS Online web map, you will need to create at least one feature service to enable the appearance of the Perform Analysis option when you want to perform analysis on any feature layer. Without a previously created feature service the Perform Analysis option will not appear. This is a glitch that will be resolved in a future release. An easy way to create a simple feature service to "seed" and enable the Perform Analysis choice is to add a spreadsheet with a single location to My Contents in your org subscription with Administrator or Publisher privileges. When you add the spreadsheet with these privileges you can select the option to spin it up as a feature service, thereby seeding the feature service capability needed to enable Perform Analysis as an option. If you've already created a hosted feature service in your organization, this is not necessary. ... View more