Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

HI Jesse, Thanks for taking the time to send us feedback. I've noted your requests in our system. 1. We are planning to add a legend feature, but it will not be in the next release (September). See Can you add a legend to a map within a Cascade story map? for more info. 2. The ability to click-to-expand a photo is already in Cascade when you have a row with several images (hover over an image and click the plus sign in the lower right to add another image -- you can add up to four), but there are some issues with it. We would like to have this as well, but we have to rework the current image gallery code first. Owen ... View more

Hi Debby, If you created if from the Story Maps website then it should be in the home folder of My Content for whichever ArcGIS account you were signed in as when you launched the Cascade Builder. If you have lots of items your story may be on a later page. Try browsing the items on later pages or sorting your items by date to bring the newest ones to the top of the list. Owen ... View more

GIS PSBA -- the Crowdsource beta will support geotags in the next release in mid-September. ... View more

Hi Richard, When you enable autoplay mode the link changes, so if you always use that link or share it with someone else the story will open in autoplay mode immediately. Owen ... View more

Robert, I just noticed you also asked about adding coordinates. Our geocoder recognizes coordinates in the order longitude then latitude, so try reversing the coordinate values. We are looking to improve that experience in the next release by offering contributors that enter coordinates a suggestion to choose the location with the coordinate values swapped. Owen ... View more

DORIS, I believe this is due to a bug we are aware of that is present in the current beta version of Crowdsource. The bug is related to how the feature service is created. We are looking into this and should have a fix for it in the next release in September. Owen ... View more

Hi Richard, Most story map apps already have autoplay. You can read more about which ones and how to use it in this blog: What’s New in Story Maps (March 2016) | ArcGIS Blog Also, I'm curious to know what specific aspects of story map navigation you don't find intuitive. Would you be able to please provide a bit of detail so we can work to make improvements in the future? Owen ... View more

Hi John, If you have access to ArcGIS Desktop (or have a colleague that does) you can bring your historical map image into ArcMap, georeference it, publish it as a tiled service to ArcGIS Online, add the service to a web map, and use that web map in your Cascade story. Here are some examples of interactive historical maps used in story maps: http://arcg.is/1poYIQb http://arcg.is/1Hl6iTV Otherwise you could use an image zoom library (like this one​, but there are lots out there you could evaluate) to host a simple web page that lets your audience zoom in and out on the image and add web page to your story. You'd need to be somewhat comfortable working with JavaScript and HTML to do this. Owen ... View more

Hi Katy, Thanks for sending the link. Sorry, you've found a bug that we will fix in the next release. It has to do with the fact that you have immersive panel with an image as the first piece of content (no text). The good news is you should be able to recover your story. It's not difficult, but just be careful as the solution involves editing the JSON of your story, which you can do using the ArcGIS Online Assistant tool. Here's how to do it: Launch the ArcGIS Online Assistant and log in with your ArcGIS account Find your story map in the item listing on the left side At the top choose I want to > View an item's JSON Scroll down a bit on the right side and in the Data section, click the pencil to activate edit mode. Use the browser's search to find "project work" -- this is some caption text in your story in the panel where the problem is occurring. Insert the text shown in the second screenshot as shown below. Scroll back up to the beginning of the Data section and save your changes Try to load your story in builder mode. The result should look like this -- notice the comma after the last bracket. You can replace "Some text" with whatever you want. Once you fix your story you should be able to edit everything back in the builder; just avoid creating immersive panels that don't start with text for now. This issue will be fixed in the September release. Sorry for the bizarre fix, but it should let you recover your story. Let me know if you have any questions. Owen ... View more