ArcGIS Online and Story Maps

ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based mapping and analysis portal. Use it to make maps, analyze data, and to share and collaborate. Key features are Interactive Web Maps, Web Scenes (3d maps), Instant Apps for sharing, Dashboards, and geospatial analysis tools. Web Maps and other apps created in ArcGIS Online can be embedded in ArcGIS StoryMaps.

Logging in to the Stanford ArcGIS Online organization (click to open).

Stanford ArcGIS Online User Policies.

Please review the AGO user guide and polices here. You are responsible for managing your file storage and credit usage in AGO.

AGO quick tour

Home: initial landing page. SGC tutorials and guides.

Gallery: all the public content in the Stanford ArcGIS Online org.

Map: WebMap Viewer builder.

Scene: Scene Viewer builder.

Groups: collections of items and for sharing specific projects.

Content: access, organize, browse, search, and work with your content in ArcGIS Online.

Organization: minimal user dashboard for organization content and status.

Note: as an ArcGIS Online user you will mostly be using the Map, Groups, and Content pages.

WebMap Viewer

An ArcGIS web map is an interactive display of geographic information that you can use to tell stories and answer questions. Web maps contain a basemap, a set of data layers (many of which include interactive pop-ups with information about the data), an extent, a legend, and navigation tools to pan and zoom.

Get started with Map Viewer - Esri documentation (plus tutorial video)

Instant Apps

Use ArcGIS Instant Apps to share your maps as apps and provide your audience with an intuitive and focused experience to interact with your maps and data. 

Create and publish an Instant App

ArcGIS StoryMaps

ArcGIS StoryMaps are a specific kind of mapping application. While they can be created directly from the ArcGIS Online portal, there are other StoryMaps apps like Briefings and Frames that can only be created from the StoryMaps portal. Any StoryMap created in the StoryMaps portal will also show up in your AGO Content list.