Note: This blog covers the classic Esri Story Maps. Story authors are encouraged to use the new ArcGIS StoryMaps to create stories; however, Esri will continue to maintain the classic templates for your use. For more information, see the Product road map.
People often ask if they can add layers to a Story Map Tour, and the answer is “Absolutely!” Here are a few nice examples of this from Pennsylvannia Wilds, the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission, and the National Parks Service.
This next example began as a standard map tour of NHL arenas, but a layer was added to show time zones to provide more context about the arena locations. With the added layer you immediately notice all the Eastern Conference teams (red pins) play at arenas in the Eastern Time Zone.
How to add layers
The easiest way to add layers to your map tour is to use My Stories. Log in to My Stories on the Story Maps website, click to expand the listing for your Map Tour, and click Edit Map to open the web map you need. Add your layer(s), save your map, and then reload the Map Tour app to view the changes.
You can always open and modify the web map from your My Content page on ArcGIS.com, but My Stories makes it easy to find the right web map.
This method can also be used to change the basemap in a Map Tour to one that doesn’t appear in the Map Tour basemap picker (see examples here and here). Just open up the Map Tour’s web map as shown above, add a custom basemap, and save the map.
For more information
Arena photos: Wikipedia, NHL logos: SportsLogos.net
Hi Marianne, we have ArcGIS Enterprise, and I really like the new Map Viewer. I would like to extend our Map Viewer by adding some custom widgets while keep all the existing features. Is there a way for us to customise our Map Viewer? I understood it is possible to use ExperienceBuilder to build it from scratch. But that means we will miss all the goodies already built in Map Viewer, and we will spend a lot effort to reinvent the wheel. Also there’re a few features that EB are still behind Map Viewer. So is there a Map Viewer… Read more »
Hi Jack, thanks for the feedback; I’m glad to know you appreciate Map Viewer and its new capabilities! As for customization: we do not support extending Map Viewer functionality with custom widgets. However, I would be interested in learning more about what custom functionality you’re hoping to add and what problems that functionality will solve which can’t be done with the current ArcGIS Online product as a whole. You’re welcome to send me an email to connect directly, or you can add more comments to this thread; either works from my end. mfarretta@esri.com
Thanks again!
Will we ever be able to group tables?
And for sure I would love not to have tables in a different section. Most companies I have seen have more tables than feature classes. I want to be able to group layers and tables together by subject matter (even cooler would be to be able to group any content together – csv, pdf help manuals, etc would be sweet).
Also really need related support.
thanks
Hi Doug, thanks for the feedback–I find the pdf/csv/manuals idea intriguing and would love to see it expanded upon in ArcGIS Ideas; I don’t think I’ve heard/read it before. Grouping tables is also a good bit of feedback and we are tracking that possibility, but not sure it has received as much promotion from the mapping community as some of the other enhancements we’ve been prioritizing. I do hope to see some new capabilities with tables soon, so we do have that to look forward to. Thanks Doug!
This release was premature in my opinion (and many others I expect). Why was the support of a very important and VERY common occurrence for support of Relationships removed from the previous version of Web Map Builder? I cannot use the new map editor for about 75% of the the City’s GIS projects because of dropping functionality!
Hi Brett, Nothing has been removed; Map Viewer Classic works as it always has, and the next ArcGIS Online update is expected to bring support for viewing related records in popups, with additional related record support coming in future updates. The expectation is Map Viewer Classic should still allow you to do all the workflows you are accustomed to doing, and Map Viewer will continue to grow and when it meets your requirements, you’ll be able to use it to the degree that you’d like. There are so many features and functionalities which many end users were so excited to… Read more »