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PS. Hi RuthAnne Here's your map tour in the previous version of the template (click on the link below). As that version expects the map tour layer in your web map to be called Locations by default, I included a URL parameter that overrides that default and tells it the name of the layer in your map. (This is the URL to a demo/test installation of the original map tour template on our server.): http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/demo/maptour-classic/?webmap=91aa6e7b8a164e86995fc96c90011f9b&locationsLayer=Zoo%20Residents%20and%20Points%20of%20Interest Also, for your slide #2, you can make that URL in the caption into a clickable link if you want by including HTML formatting in the caption. See this article for an example of that.
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Hi RuthAnne It's best to start a new forum thread about that so that other people can see the question more clearly. When you upload a thumbnail for a map or web app entry in ArcGIS Online, you have to press Save before you see the new thumbnail appear. So that might be the problem.
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Hi Ruthanne Yes you can check the map tour download page: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d4a2705a8b224e71961404542ae94c6f after that date to get the update. We'll also do a tweet about the update on https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps. You'll have to delete all the template source files in the storytelling_zoo folder on your server, copy the files from the updated download into that folder, and then edit the new Index.html file to add the ID of your web map back into the configuration section, and modify any other parameters that you modified in the previous version. No need to do anything to your web map. A couple more tips: - How about making the subtitle of your map tour more inviting to entice people to check out the zoo. Up to you but it could say something like 'Meet the residents of our wonderful small zoo'. - You could also use a different color marker symbol, like the blue one, for points of interest on the map which aren't animals. This might help people see where those facilities are distinct from the various animal enclosures. In the CSV, shapefile or feature service you use in the map tour, make the Icon_Color field value be B for the features you want to be blue.
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Hi RuthAnne Sorry about the delay in replying. We can reproduce the issue where it doesn't load on IE 8. The release date for the updated version for the fix is July 1st. Sorry about the issue. How about deploying your map tour story map with an older version of the template for now? We recommend using the previous version of the map tour template if you have any issues with the current version. In your case this will let you move ahead now and support your IE 8 users. Here is the zip file location for the download of the previous version of the map tour: https://github.com/leebock/map-tour-classic/archive/master.zip You can download and deploy this in the same way as the one you are currently using. This version of the template works fine on all platforms but does not have the support for mobile devices that the current one does (but it works fine on the iPad and most other tablets in landscape (lengthways) mode). It does also not have a black popup label on the map to indicate the currently selected tour point. Note: this previous version of the template expects the map tour points layer in your web map to be called 'Locations' but you can override that default and tell it the name of your layer ('Zoo Residents' in your case) by editing the LOCATIONS_LAYER_TITLE parameter in the config section of the index.html file. Or you can just rename 'Zoo Residents' to 'Locations' in your web map and it will work. Your map tour looks nice. I'd recommend including the name and state of your city into the title or the subtitle of the map tour, so that someone landing on it immediately knows where the zoo is located. The story maps can get hits from all around the world, so let your audience know where your tour is located 🙂
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Hi RuthAnne, What are you seeing in IE 8 when you try to access it? Do you get an error message, or does the app load partially, or do you get a message back from your server? Try doing a refresh in your browser if it doesn't load first time. Could you also post the full URL to the map tour application that you are having problems with in IE 8. I've got the URL of the web map that you are using in the map tour: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=91aa6e7b8a164e86995fc96c90011f9b but it would be good if we could test the URL of the map tour application you've installed on your server to see if we can view it OK. Rupert
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OK, I see that layer in your web map now: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=91aa6e7b8a164e86995fc96c90011f9b This is better and will work now in the map tour template.
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Are you trying to make a story map using the Map Tour template or the Shortlist template? These templates expect a different set of attributes in the point layer(s) in the web map that you point them at, and are not interchangeable.
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Hi RuthAnn I looked at your web map: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=91aa6e7b8a164e86995fc96c90011f9b and the points in the point layer it contains don't have the correct set of attributes for use in the map tour, so the map tour template isn't able to display your map. It looks like your points have been formatted with the attributes required by the Shortlist template, not the Map tour template. Are you sure you are trying to use the Map Tour template? If so, review the Readme.pdf file that comes in the Map Tour template download, which lists the expected schema.
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Open your web map in ArcGIS 10.1 via the File > ArcGIS Online command in ArcMap and all the layers in the web map will appear in the resulting ArcMap document. You can then export them to other formats.
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Hi Mike The easiest way to use your ArcGIS Online maps and data in ArcMap is to look for the 'Open in ArcGIS for Desktop' in the Open menu for the item when you work with it in the ArcGIS Online website. You'll see the Open menu next to the item when it is listed in search results and also if you view the full details page for an item. So from the My Contents listing in the ArcGIS Online website, click on the item to get to its full details page, then click the Open menu to get to the 'Open in ArcGIS for Desktop' command. If you are already in the ArcGIS Online website, this is easier than using the commands in ArcMap because you will likely already be looking at the item(s) you want to use. (Remember that in the ArcGIS Online website, it won't show Desktop-only content like layer packages when you do searches, etc unless you switch to 'Show: All Content' in the header of the page.). The bug mentioned by my colleague above is incorrect. Here's how it works: In ArcMap 10 and 10.1 if you choose the File > Add Data > Add Data From ArcGIS Online command, the window that appears only shows data that can be added as a layer into your existing map, so it filters out web maps because when you open a web map in ArcMap it doesn't get added into your existing map as a layer: it gets converted into a map document and replaces your existing map the same as if you had used the File > Open command to open a new MXD file. If you want to open a web map in ArcMap, use the File > ArcGIS Online command, which gives you access to everything in ArcGIS Online which can be added to or opened in ArcMap. Last thing to note is that if you are using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.0 with any SP, opening a web map in ArcMap will not bring all of that web map's content into ArcMap. You'll only see the basemap and layers based on ArcGIS Server map services. We've fixed this in 10.1, so upgrade to 10.1 when you can if you want to see feature services, hosted map services, layers based on shapefiles, layers based on CSV files, etc. Rupert Essinger ArcGIS development team
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I agree, this is a really neat project. National Geographic just did an animated timeline Civil War map for the iPad a few months ago. These maps you're making have a lot of potential. I'd love to see some examples when you're done. See this Battlefields of the Civil War map made with ArcGIS Online by Allen Carroll and team at Esri: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/civilwar/ For more info about this kind of map, and more examples including ready-to-use templates, see http://storymaps.esri.com.
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3: If you don't have a shapefile you're starting with it's a lot easier to setting all this up directly in arcgis instead of arcamp... go to "add", "create editable layer", name it and default template is fine. This brings up editing options to add points etc to the map, and then automatically allows you to add text and images, very straight forward and best if you just need to add a few points, if you've got a lot of polys or points then you'll have to go via the attribute field. I've found that creating an editable layer works well for a few features and informal annotation that you don't want to appear in the legend of your map, and that you won't want to use in more than one map. But if you want the features to appear in the legend, or you have more than a handful of features, or you want to be able to use the features in multiple maps, it is much better to create a shapefile in ArcMap and then zip it up and upload it into the web map. Layers based on shapefiles work better in the legend and give you much more control when you configure the popups because you can choose which attributes from the shapefile are displayed and the order they appear in. You can also easily upload the shapefile into multiple web maps, and if you decide to go to the next step and publish your data as a service, using either ArcGIS Server or via the cloud using an ArcGIS Online subscription, you'll have the features all ready to go. Plus from ArcMap you can also easily share your features with other GIS folks as a layer package which they can load into ArcGIS for Desktop or the free Explorer Desktop client.
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Go to: http://www.arcgis.com/explorer See also the following blog post: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/06/15/where-is-explorer-online/
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Here's an example of what you can do: San Diego Shortlist: http://links.esri.com/san_diego_map This kind of informal, fun map with a small number of features is really easy to make. It is simply seven shapefiles created in ArcMap and then zipped up and added to an ArcGIS Online web map. So I didn't publish this data as services. There are three point shapefiles for my three main categories: food, design and fun. There are four line shapefiles containing the ferry routes and the outlines of recommended neighborhoods, parks and beaches. I symbolized the shapefiles and configured their popups, and then published the map using the default Legend web mapping template that is built into the Share dialog, so there's no coding involved. Tips: 1. All the photos are 200 x 150 pixels so they fit nicely into the popup window and are fast to load. You can store them on any public web server you have access to. I used an Esri web server I have access to, so the pics in my map have this URL format, for example: http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/sandiego/cafe_222.png. You then put the complete URL for each feature into one of the attributes of the shapefile. 2. My place descriptions are fairly wordy, and when you assemble and edit a shapefile in ArcMap text fields can't be longer than 254 characters. So I created five fields in each shapefile to store my description for each place, and divided the sentences in the description up into those fields. Each field is self-contained so none of these sentences runs over across multiple fields. This is fiddly, but one benefit of this is that when the popups are configured using this data, you can control how much descriptive text the user will see. If you think the descriptions are too long, you can simply omit the latter of the five fields so you just get the first part of the description. This may make it easier to re-use the same data in different maps and apps. 3. I added a Website field that contains the full URL to the website for the place. The websites for some places are liable to change so in quite a few cases I set up a redirectable URL and used that in the attribute instead of the actual URL of the place. In this way, if I find that a website has changed, I can simply edit that redirectable URL instead of having to edit the attributes of the features in the web map (or web maps, if the data has been imported into more than one web map). In the popup for each place, I've got a link called Website that launches the URL in the Website attribute. To configure that part of the popup I opened the web map in ArcGIS Explorer Online, which lets you define a link in a custom attribute display that launches a URL stored in an attribute on a per feature basis. 4. In the web map, I hid the line shapefiles from the legend because I want the user to focus on the point places of interest. This is a new feature that was recently added into ArcGIS Online. Look in the menu for any layer in a web map and you'll see a Hide In Legend command. If you want to look at the underlying web map used in this app so you can see the schema of the layers and the configuration of the popups I used, here it is: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1966ef409a344d089b001df85332608f. The map also contains a labels layer created in Explorer Online and also a San Diego trolley network map service published with ArcGIS Server, but these are only used in the presentation that is built into the map, so they are turned off by default. To inspect the attributes for any of the place layers in this map, in the map viewer go to the Contents panel and in the menu next to any of the layers, choose Enable Editing. Then click on any of the places in that layer to open its popup and click Edit at the bottom of the popup. To inspect the attributes in Explorer Online, click any of the places to open its popup and then choose Edit > Edit Popup in the bottom right corner of the popup. If you want to use this shapefile schema as a template for your own data, open the web map in ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1, which will create geodatabase feature class layers for each of the layers in the map. You can use this as a template for editing and then export the layers as shapefiles.
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Text fields in shapefiles have a maximum length of 254 characters so if you save a geodatabase feature class with text fields longer than that to a shapefile, those fields will be truncated down to 254 characters. The workaround to save your point layer's attribute table as a text file in ArcGIS Desktop using the Export Table command in the table window's menu. This creates a comma separated (CSV file) which you can then import into your ArcGIS Online web map as a layer. Text fields are automatically quoted in the resulting text file, so it is OK if your text descriptions contain commas. Before you do the export, you'll need to add the X Y coordinates of your point locations into the attribute table using the Calculate Geometry command (create two new empty numeric fields then right-click each of them in the table window to get to that command) so ArcGIS Online knows how to georeference the data. The exception is that if your point features already contain street address attributes, you can import the file without adding the XY coordinates, because the ArcGIS Explorer Online client supports geocoding. The method above only applies to point features, because importing CSV files into ArcGIS Online web maps only supports points. If you have lines or polygons with long descriptions, the workaround is to use shapefiles and break the long descriptions up over multiple text fields. Actually that's what I've been doing for my point features with long descriptions too. I've added multiple text fields, each of length 254, into my shapefile to contain different sections of the long description. In the popup configuration, you can use the Custom formatting and simply truncate these fields together with a space between each one. See the point features in my map of San Diego for what I mean. Click one of the point features then choose Edit Popup: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1966ef409a344d089b001df85332608f This gives me a lot of flexibility in how I configure the popup. For example, in the San Diego map I put the first sentence of the description, which I store in one field, at the top of the popup in bold as a quick summary before the address. This method also allows me to easily reconfigure the popup to contain less descriptive text if I want to, without having to edit the source data. Another advantage of splitting long descriptions up into multiple text fields of 254 characters each is that using ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 (to be released next year) if someone opens your web map in ArcMap, the feature classes that ArcMap automatically generates from your web map's point layers will match this field structure. So if an ArcMap user opens your web map, they can get the data from your point layer, use it in geoprocessing or make modifications or additions, save it as a shapefile and then import it into their own web map without any of the descriptive data getting truncated.
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