Creating a Web Map in ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online includes everything you need to create your own maps by accessing a gallery of basemaps, adding your own layers, and configuring mashups that you can share with others, embed in your own website, or incorporate into a story map.
In this section we will create a basic interactive web map by adding your geologic data and customizing elements of the map. This map will be the foundation for your story map website.
1. Viewing Your Published Data
1. Open a web browser and go to www.arcgis.com. Select Sign In in the upper right corner. Use your Clemson username and password as described in the Pre-requisite section.
2. Go to Content. You should see two items listed with the name of the service you published, one with a yellow icon. This is the service you published which stores your map points.
3. Click on the name of your item and it will take you to the item details.
From this page, you can edit the summary and description, change editing capabilities, and preview the attribute data from the item details. You should see the summary and description you entered. You should also see any individual layers from your ArcMap Table of Contents listed under the Layers.
2. Setting Up and Saving Your Map
4. On the right, click Open in Map Viewer
This will create a new map in the browser with your data loaded into it. The map has a lot of functionality:
You can click and hold the mouse button to pan around the map and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
You can turn any layer on and off by checking and unchecking the box next to its name.
To reorder layers in the Contents panel, click and drag the name of the item.
View the table of attribute data by hovering your mouse over the layer name and clicking the Show Table button.
You can rename and remove any layers from the map as well by hovering your mouse over the layer name and clicking the More Options (...).
5. Try changing the basemap. Click Basemap in the upper left corner and switch to Imagery, Topographic, or USA Topo Maps.
3. Changing the Map Symbology
If you would like to customize any of the symbols used in your map, such as make the strike and dip symbols larger (or change the symbol completely), you can do so by changing the Style.
8. To edit the symbology, hover your mouse next to the layer's name and click on Change Style. (the geometric shapes).
9. Click on Options under the Location (Single Symbol) section.
10. Click on the word Symbols.
11. Drag the slider for Symbol Size up to 5 points.
12. Click OK, OK, and Done to close the Change Style window. Notice the symbol size is larger in the map.
4. Changing the Pop-up Window
7. Enter a title, tags, and summary for the map. Click Save Map.
6. Save your map by clicking Save > Save.
First, we want to remove the layer name (ways) from the title and just have the Well name. Then we will remove the coordinates (latitude and longitude) and edit the alias of the remaining attributes so they are easier to read.
Click on any of your data points to open a pop-up window. Notice it displays all the fields and values from the attribute table for that point. It uses the names of the attribute fields, which are not easy for a general audience to understand. Let's clean up the attribute table a bit to start.
19. Click OK to close the Configure Attributes window, then click OK to close the Configure Pop-Up menu.
18. Use this same process to move Strike above Dip direction.
16. Click in the Field Alias column on Dip_dir and type Dip direction. Repeat to change the text to Dip angle, Strike and Rock type.
17. With the Rock_type field highlighted, click the Up-arrow on the right to move it above the Dip direction.
13. To change the pop-up window, click to the ... next to your layer's name and select Configure Pop-up.
14. For the Pop-up Title, delete the text "ways:" so the only text remaining is {Well}.
15. Click on Configure Attributes and, in the windows that opens, uncheck the box in the Display column next to the fields Lat and Long_.
5. Labeling the Outcrops
To make the outcrops easier to identify, we will label each of the points with an appropriate name. In this demo it is the name of the well. In the story map using your data, it will be the outcrop name, rock type, or some other unique identifier.
21. In the Contents panel, click to the ... next to your layer's name and select Create Labels.
22. In the Text dropdown, select the field containing the label you want to use (select Well). Click OK.
23. Save your map.
6. Sharing your map
You will make your web map publicly viewable so that your story map will also be publicly viewable.
24. Next to the Save button, click Share.
25. In the new window that appears, check the box to share with Everyone (public). If you get a message about Update Sharing, click Update Sharing so that your data are also publicly shared.
26. Notice that you can share the short link to the map (e.g. http://arcg.is/1COzD0) for someone to interact with it directly.
27. Click Done.
20. Click on a point in the map to view the new pop-up window.
7. Managing your content in ArcGIS Online
Your map that you created is saved and is part of your content section in ArcGIS Online, where you manage all your data, maps, and apps. Let's go back to Content to view it.
28. In the upper left corner, click the Home menu and select Content. Notice you have the Web Map that you created.
29. Click on your map and then click Open in Map Viewer. The map will re-open for you to edit once again.