Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Tim, We are thinking about how we can add more capabilities around using sound/audio in the future, but we don't have any plans we can share about this at the moment. I've added your use case to our internal tracking system so we can use it when we consider options. Thanks for the feedback! Owen ... View more

Hi Tim, That's a cool idea, but I can't think of a way to control the audio in that way other than downloading the app and customizing the code to add that behavior. Owen ... View more

I believe there will be a beta this summer and v1 release later this year. ... View more

Yes, Adrian is right -- that chart for the Uprooted story was a custom chart designed by the developers who worked on that story. ... View more

Hi Karolina, Oops, I mean to ask you to share your web map(s), not your app (since you can't save one). Sorry! However, I was able to grab the web map IDs from the Swipe app link you just shared above and took a look at them... The imagery layers don't load for me if I just open the maps in the arcgis.com map viewer. Although I can ping the server where the services are running I'm not able to access the services themselves or even the services directory -- I just keep getting timeout errors. That leads me to suspect there is something going on with the server that's preventing the save. At this point I'll have to refer you to Esri Tech Support who can do further and more detailed troubleshooting. A few things to try... I noticed the services in your web maps are map services -- since you are publishing imagery have you considered publishing your data as image services​? These would be much more efficient at serving our your landsat data. Esri's Living Atlas contains many published LandSat services. There may already be a service you can use here so you wouldn't need to publish your own service? Owen ... View more

Hi Karolina and Emmanuel, Sorry you are having an issue with your Swipe story. Could you both please share links to your applications so I can take a look? Owen ... View more

Hi Thomas, I think this sounds like a good case for the "geoblog" feature of Story Map Journal. If you click the Organize button at the bottom of the side panel you'll see an option to Show entries in reverse order. This will place your most recent entry at the beginning of the journal so that it's the first one that readers see when they open your story. You also have the option to set a publication date if you add sections to your journal ahead of when you want them to appear. When the publication date/time is reached that section will become visible to your readers. In your case you could make one web map where you keep adding the new locations for your journey, and each day you'd create a new section in your map journal. For each section add the web map and set its location using a Custom configuration. Another idea would be to use the Story Map Tour app and add a location to the tour for each day. Then you could keep updating the link to the app where it is embedded on your website to point to the latest section using the tip described in this blog post. Map Tour would let you do a single photo and a small amount of description for each tour point whereas map journal would let you add several photos and a lot more text in the side panel. Hope this is helpful! Owen ... View more

Hi, I branched this comment to a new discussion thread since it wasn't related to the original post... The Landsat Compare app is the Story Map Swipe app​; however, the particular place used for the source info text is a simple customization to the index.html file. You'd just need to add a <p> tag with your HTML describing your sources after the "links" <div> to get the source text to appear in that location. Without customizing the app you can easily add the source text/links to the app subtitle space using some simple HTML if you want hyperlinks. Just use the HTML <a> tag in the same way as described in this blog post. See this example of sources appearing in a Map Tour banner. Owen ... View more

I'm not positive this is the solution, but I did a little research and it looks like Chrome might have a limit to the number of parallel MP3 downloads it can have. Since your app is trying to download all the sound files at once you may be hitting this limit. Try adding preload="none" to all your audio tags (except the one in the header). HTML audio preload Attribute Owen ... View more

Hi Mandy, Sure you can embed Map Tour. Here are some examples of Map Tours embedded in web pages.​ Also read through this blog post for some tips about embedding story maps in web pages. As far as cost you can see the ArcGIS Online plans here. It would be best if you could talk to your Esri account manager about your specific needs, or you can email or call Esri Customer Service using the contact info on the plan webpage. Owen ... View more

Peter Knoop​, Just wanted to check in to see how things were going after the last update to ArcGIS Online. Are you still seeing the saving errors or have they been eliminated? Please let me know when you get a chance -- thanks! Owen ... View more

Hi Rachel, Sorry you are having trouble with your story. The story is public but I can't view it because one or more of the maps/layers in the story aren't shared. Can you check the story and make sure you share everything so I can take a look? Owen ... View more

Great! Glad things are working now. That was part of the suggestion I tried to make in the discussion we had in the comments on the blog site here, but I'm glad your manager also knew that solution. Owen ... View more