Using ArcGIS Online it is easy to create and share maps that can be opened in either a web browser or inside the ArcGIS application on your smartphone/tablet device
Sharing a map can be as simple as sharing a link by email. Opening the web browser and a web application from a link is universal. Just simply paste the URL inside of your email and mobile mail clients will recognize it and open the web browser when you tap on it. For example, Ecological Footprints of Nations is a link you can tap on if reading this post on your iPad or Android tablet and it will open up the web browser and point it to http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1a40fa5cc1ab4569b79f45444d728067.
But did you know that you can share this same map via a link and have it open the ArcGIS app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device rather than use the web browser? It’s actually really easy to do! Simply…
Change this: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1a40fa5cc1ab4569b79f45444d728067
To this: arcgis://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1a40fa5cc1ab4569b79f45444d728067
Then when you tap on the link using your iPad or iPhone it will open the application directly. If you tap using an Android device you will see an Android launch screen that will ask you to choose which Application to use.
Organizations are doing this today by inserting links into their public web pages! Here are a couple of examples for you to look at:
Amherst GIS Gallery
Kentucky Geography Network
Mobile Team
Any ideas how we can add a web map to an already open web map via a URL? We have an footprint service, with 3000 footprints. When a user clicks a hyperlink associated with a footprint, we want to add a new layer to the already open web map which references an image service with a definition applied. At the moment it opens a new map viewer window. Any ideas?
Is it also possible with the webmaps in the arcgis server mobile content directory + https?
Okay, but if i want to do this in ArcGIS Server (10.05) in our own MobileDirectory with https?
If our link to that is: https://gis.strukton.com/ArcGIS/Mobile/Content/items/8253bbbfdd4f4fc9a212436711b4011e
It doesnt work when we do: argis://gis.strukton.com/ArcGIS/Mobile/Content/items/8253bbbfdd4f4fc9a212436711b4011e
What would work?
arcgis*
I would love to see a response to davidraijmakers question.
I am looking to solve the same issue that davidraijmakers is asking about. Any suggestions out there?
What about when the map is not on arcgis online but is being hosted on our own arcserver … then how do you directly link to it?
A head’s up….that URL example didn’t work for me. First, I was getting some kind of message about changing Portals (which is confusing to the lay person) and then I got an error message that the URL wasn’t valid. So, I looked at the links on the Amherst and Kentucky sites and they’re different than what’s in the blog. Instead, they used this link, which worked for me:
arcgis://www.arcgis.com/sharing/content/items//data
Using the prefix to link to a web map on the ArcGIS Server mobile content folder will not work. The link can only be used with an ArcGIS Portal or ArcGIS Online web map. The blog should be updated to reflect this point.