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Major Cities Chiefs & ArcGIS Explorer Online
The Major Cities Chiefs (MCC) is a professional organization of police executives representing the largest cities in the United States and Canada. The organization has recently published two very interesting maps on their website that were made using ArcGIS Explorer Online. Let’s take a closer look and see how they’ve leveraged Explorer Online’s capabilities.
The first map is an embedded map on their Member Cities site. The map enables visitors to navigate to an area of interest and click member city locations to view more information. Locations were obtained from a CSV file and imported onto the Explorer map. The configured pop-up includes a link to each department website:
Clicking the View Detailed Map link under the embeded map opens ArcGIS Explorer Online with a dashboard that includes several gadgets that enable users to learn more about staff composition in each department, population, budget, and crime activity compared to national averages. Just click a location to activate the gadgets:
To learn more about how to make similar maps for use on your website, see the following help topics:
About configuring pop-up windows
Link to a map (scroll down to view the embedding a map in a website section)
Creating direct links to items in ArcGIS Online
01/05/10–Once you upload something to ArcGIS Online, how you can create a direct link to the item that opens it? For example, suppose you upload a layer package and want to send someone an email that will let them open the layer package in ArcGIS. You don’t want the link to display the item description; you want the layer package in ArcGIS Online to open directly in ArcMap or ArcGIS Explorer. Here’s how to do it.
Navigate to your item in ArcGIS Online. For this blog, we’ll use a layer package that’s published by ESRI:
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=84dbc97915244e35808e87a881133d09
Notice that the URL to the item contains an ID (e.g., 84dbc97915244e35808e87a881133d09).
To create a direct link to the item, substitute this ID in the URL below:
http://www.arcgisonline.com/sharing/content/items/<insert ID here>/data
So in the example above, the URL for the direct link would be:
http://www.arcgisonline.com/sharing/content/items/84dbc97915244e35808e87a881133d09/data
One very important note: In order for this direct link to work, your item must be shared with everyone.
You can email this link or embed it in a Web page like this:
<a href=”http://www.arcgisonline.com/sharing/content/items/
84dbc97915244e35808e87a881133d09/data”>ESRI World Regions Layer Package</a>
If you have questions, please post them to our forum at http://forums.esri.com/forums.asp?c=188.
Contributed by Mike Minami of the ArcGIS Online development team
