Lesson 9

Share your results online

THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD LIKE to make the park analysis available to the public. A paper map, such as the one you created in lesson 8, is the traditional way to share results, but online maps are a new way to share your story, methods, and data with the widest possible audience. In ArcGIS Online, you can make web maps that combine Esri basemaps with your own geographic data and a huge number of map services (online layers) that are hosted on the web. You can share your web maps with everyone or with user groups that you set up. You can also publish the maps as web apps to give them a self-contained and professional appearance. You can use your ArcGIS Online account to store many kinds of geographic items in addition to web maps. For example, you can upload geoprocessing packages, such as the one you created in lesson 7, that contain models, tools, and data. Likewise, you can upload map and layer packages, which bundle maps or individual layer files along with their source data. These packages can be shared from your ArcGIS Online account, allowing you to communicate your maps, results, and workflows to others.

In the first exercise in this lesson, exercise 9a, you’ll use ArcGIS Pro to prepare and publish web layers to ArcGIS Online. Next, in exercise 9b, you’ll create a web map using these published layers, and in exercises 9c through 9f, you’ll customize it, using Map Notes, bookmarks, and pop-up windows to make it shine on the web. In the final two exercises, 9g and 9h, you’ll use your web map to create two web apps: a Basic Viewer mapping app and an Esri Story Map Series app, using simple “builders” without a single line of code.

The Basic Viewer app provides an easy-to-use app for users to explore your web map with simple tools for changing basemaps and layers, measuring, and printing. The Esri Story Map Series template is ideal for combining narrative text and multimedia content along with your maps and geographic content to tell rich and engaging stories.

ArcGIS Online

Exercise 9a: Publish web layers to ArcGIS Online

In this exercise, you are going to take feature classes from your geodatabases, add them to a map, and publish both the map and layers as a web map and feature layers to ArcGIS Online. Once you have the web map and layers in ArcGIS Online, you can configure the symbology and pop-up windows in your web map and create interactive web mapping apps.

Prepare your layers for publishing

1)Open the LARiverParkSite project. If necessary, sign in to your ArcGIS Organizational Account or Portal for ArcGIS.

2)Insert a new Lesson9 map. Add the LARiver and Parks feature classes from your LARiverParkSite geodatabase.

3)Add the LARiverBuffer and RecommendedSites feature classes from your AnalysisOutputs geodatabase. Verify that you have six sites in your RecommendedSites layer.

4)Order the layers as follows:

•LARiver

•RecommendedSites

•Parks

•LARiverBuffer

5)In the Contents pane, click on the line symbol for LARiver to open the Symbology pane.

6)If necessary, click the Properties tab at the top of the Symbology pane. Choose a dark-blue color for the line, and set the width to 1.5 pt.

7)Click Apply.

8)Repeat steps 5 through 7 to change each layer’s symbology so that LARiverBuffer is light blue, Parks is light green, and RecommendedSites is dark green.

Your map should now look something like the figure. Don’t worry if your symbols and colors don’t match.

Publish your map layers to ArcGIS Online as web layers

Now you’ll publish your map to ArcGIS Online as a web layer so that it can be used on the web.

1)Go to the Share tab, and, in the Share As group, click the Web Layer button pull-down . Then select Publish Web Layer.

2)Change the name to LARiverRecommendedParkSites.

Web layer names must be unique within your ArcGIS organization or portal, so you may need to change the name if others in your organization have done this lesson. If this is the case, consider appending your name to the web layer name.

3)Confirm that Feature is selected for Layer Type.

4)Enter a summary, and add some tags so that you and others will be able to find the layers you are sharing. Press Enter after each tag.

5)At the top of the Share As Web Layer window, click the Configuration tab to view the options.

You won’t change any of these settings in this lesson, but be aware that this tab allows you to enable features such as editing, offline syncing (for apps such as Collector for ArcGIS^®), and exporting data to other formats.

6)Click the Content tab to confirm which layers will be included during publishing.

7)In the lower-left corner of the dialog box, click Analyze.

Two warning messages appear. Warning messages mean that the web layer can be published successfully, but some things may not appear or behave as expected in the layer after publishing it.

8)Click the warning messages to see more details in the box below them, including the severity and description of the warning.

Here are the two messages you should see:

“Layer does not have a feature template set.” A feature template makes it easier to edit features in both ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, but since you’re not expecting users to make any edits to the features in your layer, this warning doesn’t affect you.

“Layer’s data source is not supported.” This warning refers to the basemap layer. Web layers can’t contain other web layers, so they will be removed during publishing. The basemaps are web layers themselves, so they won’t be included in the final published product. You’ll see how to combine web layers into a web map in exercise 9b.

9)Click Publish.

If successful, you will get a message like the one in the figure.

10)Close the Share As Web Layer pane.

11)Close the Lesson9 map.

12)Save your project, and close ArcGIS Pro.

Exercise 9b: Create a web map

Now that you have your four layers in ArcGIS Online, you can continue to modify your symbology to create a beautiful web map and configure pop-up windows so that information about your features is easy to consume.

Configure your web map

1)In a web browser, sign in to the ArcGIS Organizational Account or Portal for ArcGIS that you used for signing in to ArcGIS Pro.

2)Click on the Content tab at the top of the page.

Your published layer is displayed along with the service definition in your content.

3)Click on the LARiverRecommendedParkSites feature layer to open it.

4)Click Open in Map Viewer in the upper right, and select Add to new map.

You see something like the figure shown.

All your layers are there, and the symbology you configured in ArcGIS Pro comes through. Also notice that the default Topographic basemap is used in the web map. As is, the map looks a bit confusing, so you can make some changes to your web map and symbology.

5)On the toolbar above the map, click the Basemap button , and then click Imagery with Labels.

6)Zoom and pan around the map to see how the layers you published from ArcGIS Pro are displayed in the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer.

7)Zoom back out to the full extent of the data by clicking the home button in the upper-left corner of the map.

8)Save the map by clicking the Save Map button on the toolbar above the map.

The Save Map dialog box is displayed.

9)Give your map a title, tags, and summary, and then click the SAVE MAP button when finished.

Your map is saved to your content and can be accessed and managed later by going to the Content page.

Exercise 9c: Change web layer styles

Change the style of the buffer layer

1)Zoom in to the northwest section of the LA River buffer to see how your different layers are displayed.

Notice that the names of your layers are much longer than the ones you published from ArcGIS Pro. By default, the original layer name has been appended to the name of the web layer that you published. This naming convention is helpful for differentiating layers that might be coming from various sources, but it makes for a cluttered list of layer names.

2)Click the layer named LARiverRecommendedParkSites – LARiverBuffer in the Contents pane.

A small toolbar is displayed under the layer name.

3)On the far right of the toolbar, click the More Options button to open a menu of layer options.

4)Click Rename, and name the layer LA River Half-Mile Buffer.

Now you’ll customize the symbols and styles that you published from ArcGIS Pro so that they display better for the users of your web map.

5)If necessary, click the LA River Half-Mile Buffer layer name again, and click the Change Style button on the toolbar under the layer name.

The Change Style pane appears, which allows you to change the symbology of the layer in the web map.

6)Leave the Choose an attribute to show option set at Show location only, and click the Options button in the Select a drawing style section to work with the layer symbology.

You see the blue symbol you set in ArcGIS Pro at the top of the pane and two slider tools below. You’ll leave the color but change the transparency so that you can see the imagery under the layer.

7)Move the transparency slider so that the layer is about 60 percent transparent.

You see the color change instantly on the map.

8)Click OK and then Done to close the Change Style pane.

Customize the Parks layer

Now you can customize the Parks layer.

1)In the Contents pane, click on the LARiverRecommendedParkSites – Parks layer to display the layer toolbar.

2)Rename the layer Existing Parks by clicking the More Options button and then Rename.

3)Click the Change Style button again, and then click Options as you did with the buffer layer.

4)Use the slider to change the transparency to 25%.

5)Click OK and then Done to close the Change Style pane.

Your web map is already looking a lot better. Next, you’ll change the style of the river.

Customize the river layer

1)Rename the LARiverRecommendedParkSites – LARiver layer to LA River using the method you used previously.

2)Click the Change Style button again, and then click Options as you did previously.

3)Click Symbols, next to the blue line.

A dialog box opens to change the color, width, and other properties of the line symbol.

4)Change the line width to 4 px (pixels), and click OK.

5)Click OK and then Done to close the Change Style pane.

Last, you can adjust your recommended sites layer.

Customize the recommended sites layer

1)Rename the LARiverRecommendedParkSites – RecommendedSites layer to New Recommended Park Sites.

2)Click the Change Style button again, and then click Options as you did previously.

3)Click Symbols as you did with the LA River layer, and under the color palette, click the Fill tab and change it to No color .

4)Click the Outline tab above the color palette to display the polygon outline settings.

5)Change the color to a red and the line width to 3 px.

6)Click OK to save your settings. Then click OK and Done.

7)Switch from Contents to Legend to view the style changes.

Your map should look something like the figure.

8)Save your map by clicking the Save button.

Exercise 9d: Create Map Notes

You have polygons for each of your recommended sites, but they do not display well when zoomed out to the entire study area. To make your sites clearer at this scale, you will add point features in the form of Map Notes that you will set to be visible only at larger scales.

Add point features for the recommended sites

1)In the Contents pane, click the New Recommended Park Sites layer to display the layer toolbar.

2)Open the attribute table by clicking the Show Table button on the toolbar.

Clicking the button displays the attribute table, which should look similar to the one you created at the end of lesson 6.

3)Click anywhere in the row for Site 1.

Just as in ArcGIS Pro, the polygon is selected, but it might be out of the view of the current map.

4)Click the Options button above the table, and click Center on Selection.

The map zooms to Site 1.

5)On the toolbar above the map and over the Contents pane, click the Add button, and in the drop-down menu click Add Map Notes.

6)Change the Name to Site Points, and click Create.

7)In the Add Features pane, under Site Points – Points, click the Pushpin icon, and then click in the middle of Site 1 on the map.

8)Change Title to Site 1 and click CHANGE SYMBOL.

9)Use the Category drop-down menu to select Numbers, and then click the green 1 stickpin symbol.

10)Change the symbol size to 24 px, and then click OK.

11)Close the Map Note window.

12)On the toolbar above the map and the Contents pane, click the Details button .

This takes you back to the Contents pane.

Create more points as Map Notes

1)Open the attribute table of the New Recommended Park Sites layer, and then zoom to Site 2.

How? To zoom to a site, click the Options button above the table, and click Center on Selection.

2)On the toolbar above the map, click the Edit button .

3)Click the stickpin symbol, and add a point to the middle of the site.

4)Rename the point Site 2, and then click Change Symbol and change the symbol to a green 2 stickpin with a size of 24 px.

5)Click OK to close the symbol selector and then Close to close the Map Note.

6)Return to the Contents pane using the Details button.

7)Repeat steps 1 through 6 for the rest of the six sites to create Map Notes and give them a corresponding number symbol—for instance, use a green 3 stickpin for Site 3, and so on.

8)Save your map by clicking the Save button.

Exercise 9e: Add bookmarks

Just as in ArcGIS Pro, you can add bookmarks to your web maps to make navigation quick and easy. You’ll add bookmarks for the entire study area and each of your recommended sites.

Add bookmarks for the study area

1)Zoom out so that the entire LA River buffer is in the map viewer.

2)Click the Bookmarks button , and click Add Bookmark.

3)Type Study Area in the text box, and press Enter.

4)Click Bookmarks again on the toolbar to hide the list of bookmarks.

Add bookmarks for recommended sites

1)Zoom in to Site 1 so that you can see Site 1 and the immediate vicinity for context.

2)Under Bookmarks, click Add Bookmark, and enter Site 1 for its name.

3)Repeat steps 1 and 2 for sites 2–6.

4)Go to your Study Area bookmark and save your web map.

Exercise 9f: Configure pop-up windows

You may have noticed while exploring your layers and features that clicking on a feature displays a pop-up window. By default, these pop-up windows display all the attributes as they are published, but you can customize them to make them even more useful and user friendly.

Make your pop-up windows useful

The LA River buffer does not really have any useful attribute information that you need to communicate, so you will simply remove its pop-up window.

1)In the Contents pane, click LA River Half-Mile Buffer, then the More Options button, and then select Remove Pop-up.

A pop-up window will no longer be displayed when you click directly on the river buffer area. However, your other layers have attribute information, and you will want to select what users see and how that information is presented.

2)In the Contents pane, click Existing Parks and then More Options, and click Configure Pop-up.

3)Confirm that the Pop-up Title box is displaying {NAME}.

Now the pop-up window for each of the parks will be displayed with the park’s NAME attribute value at the top of the pop-up window.

4)In the middle of the Configure Pop-up dialog box, click Configure Attributes.

5)Click to clear the OBJECTID, Shape_Area, and Shape_Length check boxes.

6)Change the field aliases so they match the figure. Click each field alias to fill in the new name in the text box.

7)Click the Acres field, confirm that Format is set to 2 decimal places, and make sure that Use 1000 Separator is selected.

8)Click OK and then OK again on the Configure Pop-up dialog box to save the pop-up window.

9)Zoom in on one of the current parks, and click it to view the pop-up window. It should look similar to the figure.

10)Select the LA River layer, and follow steps 2 through 8 in this section to configure the pop-up window to show the NAME field as the title and hide the OBJECTID and Shape_Length fields.

Change the style of the pop-up window

1)Click New Recommended Park Sites and then More Options, and click Configure Pop-up.

2)Change the title of the pop-up window to Site {SiteID} as shown in the figure.

The field name in curly brackets will be replaced with the feature’s field value in the pop-up window. You can type the field name in brackets in the box, or use the Add Field Name button to add it for you.

3)Click Configure attributes.

4)Hide the OBJECTID, Acres, Shape_Area, and Shape_Length fields by clearing the Display check box.

5)Hide the SiteID field.

You don’t need this field to be displayed in the pop-up contents anymore, because it will be displayed as the title above the pop-up window.

6)Change the field aliases as follows:

•{RiverDistance} to Distance to river (feet)

•{AccessPopulation} to Population in walking distance

•{MEDHINC_CY} to Median household income

•{POPDENSITY} to Population density

•{PCTUNDER18} to % Children under 18

7)Change the format of the RiverDistance, POPDENSITY, and PCTUNDER18 fields to 0 decimal places by clicking each field and selecting that option from the drop-down menu on the right.

8)Click OK to close the dialog box and OK again to close the Configure Pop-up window.

9)Zoom in on one of the recommended sites, and click the polygon to view the pop-up window. It should look similar to the figure as shown.

Add images to the pop-up windows

Now you are going to add images to your Site Points layer pop-up windows. Remember that the Site Points layer is a Map Notes layer. Instead of the pop-up windows being created from attributes, they must be created and managed individually. You’ll see that Map Notes pop-up windows are flexible to allow you to easily add text, photos, and other media.

1)Zoom to the Site 1 bookmark, and click the Map Note icon (green 1). Then click Edit.

2)Click back on the Site 1 icon, and add the following text to the description:

Site 1 is nearly a full half mile from the river but has good demographics and good vehicle access. Steep slopes on the property may be an issue.

3)Enter the following path into the Image URL text box: http://bit.ly/ugis_s1_thumb, and click Close.

4)Repeat steps 1–3 using table 9-1 to configure the rest of the pop-up windows.

Table 9-1. Configure pop-up windows
Site	Description	Image URL
Site 1	Site 1 is nearly a full half mile from the river but has good demographics and good vehicle access. Steep slopes on the property may be an issue.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s1_thumb
Site 2	Site 2 has good demographics and good vehicle access off a main road. Steep slopes on the property may be an issue.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s2_thumb
Site 3	Site 3 is on a quiet street and is level, but part of the site is being used as a parking lot. It would require some additional work to create a park at this location.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s3_thumb
Site 4	Site 4 is the closest to the river and has good access with a bike path across the street to the east. It appears to be currently used for storage by adjacent businesses.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s4_thumb
Site 5	Site 5 is on a corner lot, which would create a more open feel for a potential park. It also has good demographics, serving the lowest median household income of all the sites and the highest density of people.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s5_thumb
Site 6	Site 6 is clear and ready for development. It has the advantage of having a new Metrolink station right across the street.	http://bit.ly/ugis_s6_thumb

5)On the toolbar above the map, click the Edit button to stop editing the Map Notes.

6)Zoom to one of the sites, and click the Map Note stickpin. The pop-up window should look similar to the figure.

7)Click the Study Area bookmark, and save your map.

Exercise 9g: Create a Basic Viewer web mapping app

Create the app

1)If necessary, open the web map created in exercise 9f.

2)On the toolbar above the map, click the Share button .

The Share dialog box allows you to share your map publicly, with everyone in your ArcGIS Organizational Account or Portal for ArcGIS, or members of various groups in your organization or portal. The dialog box also allows you to quickly and easily create a custom web app using the web map you just created.

3)If the Update Sharing dialog box appears, click Update Sharing.

4)Click the Create a Web App button in the middle of the dialog box.

This dialog box presents many configurable web apps that you can create using your web map. You will use the Basic Viewer template for this activity, but feel free to explore and create other apps using the various templates.

5)Click Basic Viewer, and then click Create Web App in the panel that slides out to the right.

6)Change the title and description as shown in the figure, and then click Done.

Configure the app

Now you can use the tabs at the top of the app to configure your app. Customize the app browser however you like—it does not have to match the figures.

1)On the General tab on the far left:

a)Give it a title of LA River Recommended Park Sites.

b)Give it a subtitle of Use the map to explore potential pocket park locations.

c)Check the Splash Screen box.

d)Give it a title of Welcome to the Park Site Viewer App!

e)Provide content text: Use this mapping application to explore the six potential pocket park locations along the LA River. Click the pins for more information about each site. Click Edit to stop editing the content text.

2)On the Options tab, select the Show pop-up, Display scalebar, and Display locate check boxes to provide additional information for users of your app, using the figure as a guide.

3)Click Save to see how your app looks so far.

4)Use the Theme tab to change the layout and colors.

5)Click Save to see how your changes look.

6)Return to the Options tab to pick which tools should be included in your app.

You’ll probably want all the options except Display Editor (which by default is unchecked), but feel free to experiment with how all the various tools work.

7)Use the drop-down menu under Specify active tool at app startup to select Details.

Feel free to try some of the other options, but Details is suggested as the default, and it is used in subsequent figures.

8)Click Save to see how your app looks and behaves so far.

9)When you are happy with your app, click Close.

Clicking Close takes you to the item details page where you can further define metadata and settings if needed. There is also a link to view your app or further configure it.

You can get back to this page by going to the Content page and clicking it there.

10)On the far right, click View Application to open your live app.

Exercise 9h: Create an Esri Story Map Series web app

The Esri Story Map Series is ideal when you want to present a series of maps. A story map series provides tabs, numbered bullets, or expandable “side accordion” controls. In addition to maps, you can include images, video, and web content in your series to tell your story and engage your audience.

Start building the app

Visit http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/map-series/ to see examples and detailed information about building Story Map Series apps. Check out the Gallery, which has several Bulleted, Side Accordion, and Tabbed examples.

1)Go to your Content page and open your map titled LA River Recommended Park Sites Web Map.

The item page opens.

2)On the far right of the page, click the Create Web App button, and then in the drop-down menu, click Using a Template.

The Create a New Web App window displays a list of web app templates.

3)Select the Story Map Series, and click Create Web App.

4)Give the app a title of LA River Recommended Park Sites Story Map and a summary of A story map of recommended park sites along the LA River.

The tags should already be configured on the basis of the web map’s tags.

5)Click Done.

The app is created in your content, and Map Series Builder is displayed.

Lay out the map series

1)Choose one of the layout options. You can change this setting later, so you’ll start with Tabbed. Then click Start.

2)Give your map series a new name or accept the default. Click the big blue arrow on the right.

Now you can start entering content. Each map series is made up of multiple tabs with their own content (text, maps, and media) in the side panel and main stage.

3)Add a Tab title of Study Area. For Map, select the LA River Recommended Sites Web Map.

4)Select the Custom Configuration for Location.

5)Center the map on the LA River buffer, and select Save Map Location.

6)Select Add to create the Study Area tab.

7)Under the Study Area tab, add the following text:

The Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan seeks to improve the quality of life for citizens living near the LA River corridor through wise redevelopment. This story map presents the results of a GIS project to identify suitable park sites along the LA River.

City council guidelines for siting the park(s) include:

1.On a vacant parcel of land at least one-quarter acre in size

2.Within the Los Angeles city limits

3.As close as possible to the Los Angeles River

4.Not in the vicinity of an existing park

5.In a densely populated neighborhood with lots of children

6.In a lower-income neighborhood

7.Where as many people as possible can be served

The familiar formatting tools allow you to control font styling. Feel free to be creative with the styling. It is not important that your story map look the same as the figures.

8)Take a minute to zoom and pan around the dynamic map to see that it behaves the same as the shared web map.

9)On the toolbar at the top of Map Series Builder, click Settings . Click through the tabs to see the various styling options available.

10)Under the Map Options tab, clear the Synchronize map locations check box.

11)Select a theme you like and make any other styling changes, and then click Apply.

Add site tabs

1)Add a new tab by clicking the Add button above the map.

Clicking Add opens the same dialog box that you used to enter content for the Study Area tab.

2)Give the tab a title of Site 1, and confirm that Map is the selected content with the web map you selected earlier.

Although you will be using the same web map throughout this lesson, you may use different maps on each tab if desired.

3)Next to Location, click the Custom Configuration button to set the location to zoom to when the user selects this tab.

4)Zoom in to the Site 1 stickpin, and click SAVE MAP LOCATION.

The Add Tab dialog box reappears.

5)Leave Content as Map default.

Setting a custom configuration would allow you to change which layers are displayed when navigating to the section.

6)Next to Pop-up, click Custom configuration to select a map pop-up window to display when navigating to this section.

7)On the map, click the Site 1 stickpin to open it, and then click Save the pop-up configuration.

8)Click Add to create the Site 1 tab.

9)Select the Study Area tab. Notice that the map zooms out to your study area. Go back to the Site 1 tab, and notice that the map zooms back in and displays the pop-up window.

10)With the map zoomed to Site 1, click the parcel polygon (not the stickpin) to display the pop-up window, and then use the pointer to select and copy the attribute information.

11)Under the Site 1 tab, type Analysis Results and make it bold. Add another line of space, and then paste the attribute information you copied from the pop-up window.

Now you’ll add a picture to the side panel to provide more context. Map Series Builder provides a convenient integration feature with the media-sharing sites Flickr^® and others to insert pictures. You’ll be using Flickr for this story map.

12)Add a line after the Analysis Results table, and in the toolbar above the text area, click the Insert Media button .

13)In the list of Media options, confirm that Image is selected, and in the list of sharing platforms, click Flickr.

14)For User name, enter UnderstandingGIS, and then click Load albums.

15)Select Park Site Photos.

16)Choose one of the pictures for Site 1.

17)Give the image a caption of Photo of Site 1.

18)Select the check box to Include a maximize button in the corner of the image.

19)Click Apply to insert the image.

Clicking Apply takes you back to the editor, in which you can change the size of the photo if you want or add any additional text or media.

20)Add tabs for each of the other park sites by repeating the steps under “Add site tabs.” Click Save to save your edits.

Add a final tab

1)Add one last tab to conclude your story map, and title it LA River Revitalization.

Instead of using a map for the last tab, you’ll use an image.

2)Change Content to Image, and then click Link.

3)In the Image Link box, enter http://bit.ly/ugis_lariver, and confirm that Fill is selected as the Position option. Then click Add.

4)In the text editor, enter the text: For more on the LA River Revitalization efforts, please visit http://lariver.org.

5)Select or highlight http://lariver.org, and use the Link button to insert the URL and turn it into a hyperlink.

Last, you’ll add a video from YouTube to the section.

6)Add a line after the link, and on the formatting toolbar, click the Add Media button.

7)In the list of media options, click Video and then click YouTube. Enter the following link in the box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7u5T_tDhQ.

8)Click Check, and then click Select this video. Select the Fit position option, and then click Apply.

9)Try out your video by clicking it in the text editor.

10)In the upper-right corner of Map Series Builder, click Save to save the story map, and then in the upper toolbar, click the Share button .

From here, you may choose to keep it private, share it with your organization or with the public, or embed it in another site, such as a blog.

11)Click the Organization option, and then copy the link in the Socialize box to a new browser tab to see your new story map.

A quick note about sharing story maps and other types of web apps:

A web app consists of one or more web maps—which themselves consist of one or more web layers. To see all the content contained in the web app, a person must have access permission to all the associated web maps and layers. Access is not a problem if everything is shared with the organization or publicly, but it can be confusing when dealing with private content or content shared to a group. Map Series Builder includes features that automatically check your content to warn of access permission issues.

Our first goal in this book has been to guide you through the main steps of a GIS analysis problem: to explore the study area; state the problem in quantitative terms; choose, prepare, and edit the data; plan and carry out the analysis; automate the analysis with a model; and present the analysis results. Not every GIS analysis problem is the same, but you should now understand the basic approach and have the requisite skills to take on the next project that comes your way.

Our second goal has been to introduce you to ArcGIS Pro software. In planning this book, our decision was to use the software only as it served the needs of the project. The project was intended to be complex enough so that you could learn a lot of functionality; nevertheless, you definitely didn’t see or do everything. Keep exploring the software on your own, and visit the book’s resource web page at esri.com/UnderstandingGIS4.