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Trick a browser into exporting massive ArcGIS Online map images

By John Nelson

Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920×1080? Here’s how to trick a browser’s device emulation tools to capture enormous screenshots. Now you can export your screen as though it were the size of a billboard. So many pixels. I’ll use it to export huge maps from the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer.

0:00 A really nice little intro.

0:33 How to create a fake (and potentially gigantic) device in the browser’s device emulator. You only have to do this part once.

1:33 Capture huuuuuge screenshots at the emulated dimensions.

1:50 Profit.

It’s a useful hack for exporting your ArcGIS Online web maps and apps at absurd sizes. Printing a huge poster for the Esri User Conference? Check. Sending a hero-shot image of your cool dashboard to a plotter? Check. Engineering need a print of your site plan at absurd resolution? Check. Marketing wants your map for a page in a glorious brochure? Check. Design team needs exceptionally huge map images for whatever it is that they do? Check.

Happy pixel-pushing! Love, John

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