Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Which Story Map application are you using? There are several: App List | Story Maps ... View more

Hi, Routing isn't supported in this template. ... View more

(edited to remove old links) http://links.esri.com/storymaps/numbered_marker_symbols  ... View more

Hi Kirk Sorry feature services are not supported in the Shortlist for the point layers that define the tabs. We need to add support for that and it is a frequent request. You can add feature services (and map services) into the web map used by the Shortlist, but the features won't be clickable and can't be used to define the tabs. Sorry about that limitation. Also I don't have an estimate about when that will be added. Rupert Story Maps team ... View more

(Thanks for the cross-reference Kelly) Can you paste a link to your web map? The link you pasted in isn't complete. To deploy a Shortlist, you need to download the template from the Story Maps website and put it onto any publicly accessible web server or website. For example your agency or business probably has its own website so you'd just put the files onto a folder on that site just the same as if a new page was being added to the site. This may involve working with an web admin person, or you can easily do it yourself if you have write access to the website or a folder on it. For example if your website is hosted in a popular service like iPage, you would login to iPage and upload the Shortlist files into a folder. Then you'd just edit the lines in the configuration section of the Index.html file in that folder to specify the ID of your web map and any additional options. Finally in the header section of the Index.html file you could replace the link to the Esri logo and website to point at your own logo and website (see the Shortlist Readme file in the download for details). Note: your web map remains hosted in ArcGIS Online. All you are doing is installing the Shortlist application which points at your web map in ArcGIS Online. As long as your web map is publicly accessible in ArcGIS Online, your Shortlist app will be able to display it. Like you say, we do provide a generic hosted version of the Shortlist template that is designed for testing and reviewing Shortlists before they are deployed. It's not designed to be used for deploying Shortlists because you can't change the logo to be your own like you'll almost certainly want to when you make a Shortlist (otherwise it looks like we made your Shortlist!). But it can be very useful for testing the web map you've created to see if it gets displayed correctly in the Shortlist. The parameters in the URL of this generic hosted version match the parameters in the configuration section of the Index.html file, so it lets you play around with the parameters before you edit the Index.html file in your own deployment of the Shortlist. So at the minimum you can just put your web map's ID into the webmap parameter in the URL and let everything else default: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?WEBMAP=1966ef409a344d089b001df85332608f or you may need to specify multiple parameters in order to get the configuration you want. For example the following URL uses all of the parameters: My web map includes a point layer containing light rail stations that I want to be clickable in the map but which I don't want to be represented by a tab in the Shortlist, so I use the additional parameters to tell the Shortlist how to handle my map: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?WEBMAP=8504932f183c4b8699dc6ba28235e398&DETAILS_PANEL=true&GEOLOCATOR=true&COLOR_ORDER=green,red,blue,purple&BOOKMARKS_ALIAS=ZOOM&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Light%20rail%20stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Light%20rail%20stations|Light%20rail|Neighborhoods|Parks Rupert Story Maps team ... View more

Very nice work! It is great how you integrated the historic photos and I like how you also include static maps as images. It's a nice feature of the Story Map Journal that you can include maps simply as images if you don't want to provide an interactive web map. One tip: In the 'Walter Vail and the Railroad' section, where you display the web site of the Southern Pacific #1673 locomotive via the main stage action: you could use the 'stretch' option for the web page so that it fills the main stage. ... View more

Thanks so much for the reply and tip about that tool! This is really useful to know ... View more

Thanks for the tip about that blog post and thanks for highlighting the story map of story map contest winners. Have you also seen the Story Maps gallery: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/gallery? We update this every week with the best examples we can find, and it is keyword searchable, so you can easily look for topics or places that might interest you. We also tweet links to great story maps, resources, and work that people are doing with the story map apps on pour official twitter feed (no need to join Twitter in order to view the feed): https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps‌ ... View more

Thanks Susan. There's not a way to move an application entry in ArcGIS Online between a public account and an org account. (With a web map of course you could just do a Save As). Inside an org items can be transferred between different named Org account users). There are some tools in Github as Rebecca kindly pointed out, but I've not used those and am not sure what they do. I would recommend just re-creating your map journal on the Org account. There's an Export option in the Organize dialog in the Map Journal builder. And the web map(s), images, etc will all be accessible to that new account, so we are just talking about the Map Journal content. So in other words I wouldn't download the app just to keep using the original version of the app you created with your public account. Once you download the app you are for example no longer automatically getting the benefits of fixes we make to the hosted version. And downloading the app to point at the map journal on your public account in an enterprise context doesn't sound like it is completely meeting the licensing terms of use (although I won't tell anyone ) ... View more

Sorry about the problem. Nice looking story map! Could you paste a URL to one of the web maps that you use in your story map so we can try it out outside of the story map side accordion app you are using? PS. There's a typo in the URL that gets launched when I click the Conabio logo. ... View more

Hi Mike, An extra resource to check out is the new http://learn.arcgis.com/ website. This has some lessons aimed at end users and also authors of story maps. For example see this page: Maps can be used to tell stories | Learn ArcGIS‌ There's not a lesson for how to use a map tour or map journal you could link to directly, but it may be useful or give you ideas. Like Greg says, our aim is for the story map apps to be usable by the general public without any doc, especially given the type of informal audience they are mostly aimed at. And we also want people to be able to author story maps without any doc too. ... View more

Hi Susan Sorry about the delay replying. First I just wanted to check why you want to download the app. You are welcome to of course! But the Map Journal is available as a hosted story map that can be immediately deployed without downloading anything. I wasn't sure from the first line in your post whether you have made a map journal already or have just made an online map. So you could make a map journal and then link to it from your website without downloading anything, like a lot of authors are doing (nice example we saw today: http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/wildlife-walks‌ ). So in other words before you download the app, just wanted to check that you know that you don't need to in order to make a map journal. Anyway, here's the answers to your questions: a) The app itself is just a very small set of source code files and takes up very little space. You are just downloading the app: the web map(s), data, pictures, etc used in your map journal remain in Esri's cloud, or elsewhere on the web in the case of pictures you reference in Flickr. etc. Also note that when you download the app, you are just putting it onto a folder on a web server or hosting service: ArcGIS Server is not required. Just wanted to mention that because some folks think they need ArcGIS Server to host an app download. b) Yes, you could move your photos to your server or any other location you like. As long as they have a URL, they can be accessed by the app (or by the map(s) that you use in the app if the photos are referenced from the data. c) It's simpler than that. Your map journal just references the web map that is in Esri's Cloud. There's nothing to import. But just want to make clear that you don't need to worry about any of the three questions above if you just want to make a map journal hosted in ArcGIS Online. Just go to this page: App List | Story Maps‌  and click 'Build A Map Journal'. ... View more

Sorry about the limitation guys. Riyas is right. Currently feature services are not supported for the point layers that define the tabs and contain the places of interest in the Shortlist. They have to be feature collections created by uploading a shapefile or CSV file. I'll update the tutorial step 4 to make that clearer too. Feature services are also not supported for clickable supporting layers that can optionally be added into a Shortlist (like the light rail line, light rail station, parks, etc in this example: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/shortlist-phoenix/‌ ... View more

Here are two nice patterns for adding extra text: http://www.maps101.com/static_items/storykits/worldwar1fieldtrip/index.html‌ http://www.forestrygis.com/ifss/‌ ... View more

You could have multiple tabs in the Shortlist, one for each of the categories you want people to be able to choose. Tabs are easier to use and more fun that having a control for turning categories on or off. You could customize the Shortlist to add a filter for typing in a keyword filter but I've not seen an example I can point you at that does that specifically. Note that unlike the Playlist, the Shortlist applies a spatial filter to the places in each tab: so when the user zooms in the tabs update to show the places in that extent. Here's a Shortlist example that adds a search function but it is a search on the map rather than a filter on the items: RC Military Banners‌ Note this was created by the City Of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, who received the President's Award from Jack Dangermond at the User Conference this week in San Diego for their enterprise GIS implementation. Here's a picture from the UC Plenary with that team and their Shortlist app getting their award from Jack: ... View more