Tag Archives: usability
Better map tips using Explorer Online
We recently had a couple of questions in our inbox concerning map tips – the text that is displayed when you hover with your mouse over a feature – and here’s a summary of how they work.
The Power of ArcGIS Through Business Analyst Online
You might have noticed the new Select tool in the map tool palette. What in the world is this? How is it going to be useful to me? What else can I do after bringing in a web map from ArcGIS Online? Continue reading to find out more…
As discussed in a previous blog post, you can bring in the maps created in ArcGIS Online into Business Analyst Online and make the maps more meaningful. With the help of this new Select tool, you can make it even more powerful. Here’s how… Continue reading
ArcGIS Online Maps Through Community Analyst – The Good Stuff
You might have noticed the new Select tool in the map tool palette. What in the world is this? How is it going to be useful to me? What else can I do after bringing in a web map from ArcGIS Online? Continue reading to find out more…
As discussed in a previous blog post, you can bring in the maps created in ArcGIS Online into Community Analyst and make the maps more meaningful. With the help of this new Select tool, you can make it even more powerful. Here’s how… Continue reading
Sneak Peek: ArcGIS Online (ArcGIS.com) Maps in Community Analyst
by Sooria Jeyaraman
I discussed accessing and adding of ArcGIS online maps in Community Analyst in my previous blog. This was very useful in adding maps from ArcGIS Online and for further analysis in Community Analyst. As always, we want to take it a step further and make it even more useful. How do we do it? Continue reading
Place and Road Labels above Color Coded Maps
By Sooria Jeyaraman
How many times you have created a color-coded map from our list of close to 6000 variables (yes, I said 6000) and turned it completely opaque to see the colors come to life? There is one small problem with that. Once you set the transparency to 0% then you will not be able to see the roads or places below these colors. How many times have you wondered that it’ll be great if you have a way to look at these without losing your beautiful colors? If you are, you are not alone. Some of you brought this issue to our attention so, as usual, we decided to do something about it.
ArcGIS.com Maps in Community Analyst
by Sooria Jeyaraman
Hello Community Analyst users, I am the user experience architect for Community Analyst. This is an exciting product and we’re very excited to have you on board. You will be hearing from me a lot on user interface (UI) specifics, general usability and user experience of the application.
As you all know in our latest beta release of Community Analyst we have added more basemaps to the product, this was covered in a previous blogpost. Another exciting addition to the basemaps is the integration of maps from ArcGIS.com. I would like to take a moment and explain in detail how to use this feature in Community Analyst. Continue reading
Sneak Peek: Browsing ArcGIS.com Maps in Business Analyst Online
by Sooria Jeyaraman
As you all know in our latest release we’ve added the capability to integrate ArcGIS.com maps in Business Analyst Online. Now we are stepping up the game and making it much easier to load. You can load the ArcGIS.com maps with a single click. How is that done you may ask? Continue reading
ArcGIS.com maps in Business Analyst Online
by Sooria Jeyaraman
As you all know in our latest release, we have added more basemaps to the product, which I covered in my previous blogpost. One more exciting addition to the basemaps is the integration of maps from ArcGIS.com. Continue reading
Sneak Preview: More Basemaps in Business Analyst Online
by Sooria Jeyaraman
Currently in Business Analyst Online we provide three different standard basemaps: Streets, Satellite and Topographic. Satellite has options to turn the road/place labels on or off and also provides the dates of the satellite images (this was explained in detail in my previous blog: BAO Snippet – Image Dates). We’ve received requests from users to access other standard basemaps that come with some other Esri products. We’ve once again listened to our users and have done that and more…
In the upcoming release of Business Analyst Online, the “Topographic” map button is replaced with the “More Maps” drop-down menu. Open the menu under “More Maps” and you will see Continue reading
BAO Snippet – Preferences
by Sooria J
Preferences is a section in Business Analyst Online which, in my opinion, is a “treasure”. It provides shortcuts to make your life easier. Let’s review them one by one.
General
This section gives you options to set the default tab to open when the app loads initially. If you are a user who is more concerned with getting reports, you can set this up and save an extra click (it adds up you know!) so the application opens to the Get Reports tab every time. The same can be done for other sections too.
Select Location
This section is for setting up your study areas. If you always work on a particular area such as a city or county, you can set it here. When you open the Select Location or Research Market tab, the map will be automatically zoomed in to your favorite location and ready to go. In the second section of this page, you can set the default values for the rings, drive times and donuts. Also the fill and border color for each type of study area can be set here. By setting these, anytime you create a site your sites will have the colors you chose. Remember you can always click on the Restore Defaults button to restore the default settings.
Research Market
All your needs for a color coded map can be set here. You can pick from the wide range of our beautiful color ranges, transparency setting, methods, border thickness and color.
Logo
Inserting your own logo is important to you and we understand that. So there is functionality to allow you to upload multiple logos and use them in reports and maps. The preview of the logo is shown and gives you an idea of the size of that the logo will be in the report.
Reports
This section lets you pick the report default format, either PDF or Excel. You can also choose to receive an email of the reports you have run by selecting this option and inserting your email address. Ability to send copies to colleagues and clients can be done using the CC field. You can also add a subtitle to the reports here too.
Favorites
I have provided details about Favorites in my blog post titled Favorites is my Favorite. Managing your favorite reports list can be done here. You can add, delete or change the order in which the reports are run in the favorite reports.
Let us know your thoughts on these feature and any other shortcuts you would like to have added.
Later!
- SJ
