Latest Contributions by ChristopherBoland

Does anyone know if there is a way to control the keywords that are available when tagging an ArcGIS Online item? I was scrolling through the keywords available to my organization, and many of them differ simply by capitalization or plural.  We're really like to avoid duplicate keywords for search consistency (especially in open data) and avoid replicating typos in the keyword list. ... View more

The search tool in my OpenData site seems to have changed over the weekend to be a lot less specific.  Just for an example, I have 150ish layers being shared through my OpenData site.  I clicked on the "Marine Ecosystems" button on my home OpenData page (geodata.myfwc.com), which pulls up a canned query for "Marine Ecosystems."  The query returns 92 results with some datasets not having anything to do with Marine (e.g. Florida's Major River(Lines) dataset). It appears that the query tool has been dumbed down a little and is searching for each term individually.  Meaning when I click on the "Marine Ecosystems" button, it is searching for the term "Marine" and then completing a second search for "Ecosystems" and combining the results.  What has happened to the search tool and how can I fix it? ... View more

I know that OpenData is very much in its infancy.  I would like to commend the development team for a job tremendously done at working out some bugs and correcting some functionalities.  So far I am very impressed with the product.   That being said, there are a couple of things that I would like to suggest for future development.  This is not an exhaustive list, and if anyone else has something to add, I'm sure the team will see it and take it under advisement for POSSIBLE future enhancements (noting that I am in no way connected with ESRI, other than being a user): other download format types, for example file geodatabase (.gdb).  I'm assuming that ESRI would export this .gdb out in the earliest version that the company still technically supports, which currently to my knowledge is a 10.0 gdb some sort of analytics to see how many times a dataset has been viewed/ downloaded/ shared/ etc. over the last X period of time (my preference would be monthly, quarterly, and annually, but others may have different requests.  I'm thinking something close to Google Analytics, but don't know exactly what I'm thinking of.   So again, thanks ESRI's OpenData Development team (Andrew Turner Daniel Fenton Courtney Claessens and others whom I don't know yet) for all their hard work in getting this brilliant tool up and running for us (the GIS community). ... View more