Web Maps

Web maps provides access to maps available from ArcGIS Online. Once viewed, the thumbnails appear in Web Maps and the web maps layers appear in My Maps for future access. You can access your groups and content from ArcGIS Online under My Groups and My Content.

Steps:

1. From the More Maps dialog box, click Web Maps.
2. Click Browse ArcGIS Online and the Browse ArcGIS Online Web Maps dialog box appears with the Public Gallery selected.

   With the Maps button, you view the available maps. With the Groups button, the maps are categorized in folders.

   

   To find a web map, you can

   • Use the Search for web maps and groups text box
   • Sort
   • Scroll using Previous and Next
3. Once you've found the web map you want to use, click Add this map.
   Note:

   If you are having trouble adding an ArcGIS.com Web Map, it may be because it is missing the cross domain policy file that allows Community Analyst to access the data. A cross-domain policy file is an XML document that grants a web client permission to handle data across one or more domains. If the cross domain policy file is missing, you can ask the Server Administrator to add the missing crossdomain.xml file which usually resides at the web server's root directory.

   This icon indicates the map can be converted to a site.

   Note:

   Some services used to create web maps don't provide information about whether features can be selected. Some web maps don't have this icon while you can still select features and convert to a site.

   For web maps that contain variables, the Variables Added dialog box appears to indicate the variables that can be used to create color-coded maps or for use in performing a Smart Map Search.

   Note:

   For data from web maps to be available in Color-Coded Maps and Smart Map Search, the following must be met:

   1. The data in the web maps must be in a feature service
   2. The feature service must support the Query operation.
   3. There must be at least one numeric variable in the feature service.

Append or replace web maps

If you already have web map layers loaded on the map, you can append or replace them.

• Append <layer name> to the map - allows you to view the newly loaded web map layer along with the current layer. This can be useful if you are viewing the same area and want to compare multiple web map layers on the map. Append is the default.
• Replace the current layer with <layer name> - allows you to replace the newly loaded web map layer with the current layer.

Click OK.

Select a feature on the map

The Select tool in the map palette allows you to select features on the map. A pop-up provides information and the ability to convert to a site, press SHIFT and drag the mouse pointer to select a feature on the map.

My Groups

My Groups lets you access groups in ArcGIS Online where you can exchange information with others on a similar project. For example, you might be in a city's housing authority department doing research for a grant and you want to share the research results with others in the department. You can invite members that you want to share this information with and together collaborate to provide the best data for the grant application. Click here to sign up or sign in to Groups.

Learn how to participate in groups which includes joining, creating and owning groups.

Learn how to join an organization.

To access your My Groups folders, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. Click More Maps.
The More Maps dialog box appears.
2. Click Web Maps.
3. Click Browse ArcGIS Online.
4. Click My Groups.
5. Once you're logged in, all web maps in the groups you belong to appear here.

My Content

My Content allows you to set up a personal folder in ArcGIS Online. The contents of the folder won't appear in any search results or be shared with any groups. This can be helpful for maps that you are working on or maps of proprietary content. Learn how to sign up or sign in to My Content.

Learn more about sharing content.

Learn how to join an organization.

Once created, you can access the content from your My Content folder. To access your My Content folders, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. Click More Maps.
The More Maps dialog box appears.
2. Click Web Maps.
3. Click Browse ArcGIS Online.
4. Click My Content.
5. Once you're logged in, all web maps in the groups you belong to appear here.