{"id":2988541,"date":"2026-11-13T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2988541"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:24:31","slug":"its-about-time-map","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/its-about-time-map","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s About Time: Map Viewer\u2019s enhanced time-enabled layers and map animation"},"author":6331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[30171,28031,28041],"industry":[],"product":[36551],"class_list":["post-2988541","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-animation","tag-temporal","tag-time","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":6331,"user_firstname":"Mark","user_lastname":"Harrower","nickname":"Mark Harrower","user_nicename":"mark-harrower","display_name":"Mark Harrower","user_email":"MHarrower@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:17","user_description":"Map nerd. Passionate about great design, teaching, and doing cool things with data.","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/506a60fd9a86e9a7b42640beff2714fec741d1077ed2e277ede81abd399baf13?s=96&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/506a60fd9a86e9a7b42640beff2714fec741d1077ed2e277ede81abd399baf13?s=192&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"},{"ID":9622,"user_firstname":"Zara","user_lastname":"Matheson","nickname":"Zara Matheson","user_nicename":"zmatheson","display_name":"Zara Matheson","user_email":"ZMatheson@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2019-06-04 15:32:01","user_description":"Zara is a Product Engineer on the ArcGIS Online Team.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image-1-213x200.jpeg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"short_description":"With the November 2026 ArcGIS Online update, Map Viewer added several enhancements to the time configuration and animation experience. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Animated maps are pretty awesome but they haven\u2019t always been easy to make. For decades GIS focused on mapping <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">where<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> things were but struggled to show <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">when<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0 We continue to enhance time animation options in Map Viewer since we\u2019ve long known animated maps quickly grab our attention and add a much-needed temporal depth to our depictions of the world. Adding time is important because many of the things we want to better understand in the real world play out over both space AND time. Put simply, the world is not static or frozen, so our maps shouldn\u2019t be either.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Animated maps that show change in positions of objects (e.g., fleet vehicles), or the change in values at locations (e.g., decades of election results) are a powerful and intuitive way to visually process huge amounts of data at-a-glance. Humans are literally hardwired to\u00a0 see motion or changing shapes and colors. Tapping into those innate perceptual abilities is just good cartography.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p>Map Viewer supports three ways to animate time. Each supports different data formats and use-cases. Learn more about the differences between time-based feature visibility (by feature), time series (by attribute), time-based layer visibility (by layer) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.esri.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/latest\/create-maps\/configure-time-mv.html\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>By Feature<\/strong> (changing locations eg. hurricanes)<\/li>\n<li><strong>By Attribute<\/strong> (Time series for static locations eg. election results)<\/li>\n<li><strong>By Layer<\/strong> (layer visibility, show layers during specific time periods)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>With the November 2026 ArcGIS Online update, Map Viewer added several enhancements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.esri.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/latest\/create-maps\/configure-time-mv.html\">time configuration and animation<\/a> experience. Read on to learn more about these enhancements and how they might improve your time workflows.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW235114432 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">Redesigned <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">ompact &amp; <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">r<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">esponsive<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\"> t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">ime <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">slider <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235114432 BCX0\">component<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW235114432 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The most visually apparent enhancement is the update from the time slider widget to the new minimal time slider component.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2988622,"id":2988622,"title":"time bar","filename":"time-bar.png","filesize":44008,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/its-about-time-map\/time-bar","alt":"","author":"9622","description":"","caption":"The redesigned slim and responsive time slider in Map Viewer. ","name":"time-bar","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2988541,"date":"2026-11-09 23:01:30","modified":"2026-11-09 23:02:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1187,"height":152,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar-213x152.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":152,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":59,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":98,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","large-width":1187,"large-height":152,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","1536x1536-width":1187,"1536x1536-height":152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","2048x2048-width":1187,"2048x2048-height":152,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar-826x106.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":106,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/time-bar.png","wide_image-width":1187,"wide_image-height":152}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It has a new compact, slim design to make it easier to read, more informative, and more responsive across apps and devices. You\u2019ll also notice that the current map time or range is always displayed above the slider handles, providing a quick and clear indication of the time filter currently applied to the map.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Persistent Time Filtering<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The new compact time slider has another quality-of-life improvement with this update: When the map reader temporarily hides\/shows the time bar it will now remember where you are in the animation and how you\u2019ve set your temporal filtering. Previously, hiding the time slider would remove all temporal filters.\u00a0 Hiding the time slider is useful since it can obscure parts of the map.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Look for the <strong>clock icon<\/strong> to show\/hide the time slider in the lower left corner of the map. If needed, you can still temporarily disable time animation at the map level by opening the time slider, clicking <strong>Map time Options<\/strong> and turning off the <strong>Apply time filter<\/strong> toggle. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2988550,"id":2988550,"title":"AboutTimeGearsIcon","filename":"AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","filesize":291124,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/its-about-time-map\/abouttimegearsicon","alt":"","author":"6331","description":"","caption":"Many of the most important controls for map animation are behind this gear icon on the time slider component, so be sure to explore what it can do for you. 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20:18:25","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1436,"height":1036,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","medium-width":362,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":554,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","large-width":1436,"large-height":1036,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","1536x1536-width":1436,"1536x1536-height":1036,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","2048x2048-width":1436,"2048x2048-height":1036,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon-645x465.jpg","card_image-width":645,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTimeGearsIcon.jpg","wide_image-width":1436,"wide_image-height":1036}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2><strong>Share your time-enabled maps in new ways<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With the introduction of the new time slider component, Map Viewer has also added support for the time slider in its mobile and configurable views.\u00a0 If your web map is time-enabled, both the <strong>Embed map<\/strong> and <strong>Create custom link<\/strong> options will honor that configuration and display the time slider.\u00a0\u00a0 Both take advantage of the responsiveness enhancements, ensuring the time information is well displayed on smaller screens. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The mobile view of the Map Viewer application will also display the time slider. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2988558,"id":2988558,"title":"custom_link_Time 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data-contrast=\"auto\">Time-enable layers directly from Map Viewer<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Another major enhancement with this release is the ability to enable time on any layer with a date field directly from Map Viewer.<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Until now, only the original owner of a map layer could enable time on a layer with a date field in ArcGIS Online. With this update, anyone can now directly enable or disable time on layers with date fields. This works for feature layers, feature services, knowledge graph layers, GeoJSON, and CSV layers, with more support coming soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2988559,"id":2988559,"title":"AboutTime_Workflow1","filename":"AboutTime_Workflow1.png","filesize":834424,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/its-about-time-map\/abouttime_workflow1","alt":"","author":"6331","description":"","caption":"Look for the new Time-based feature visibility toggle in the Properties Pane to enable\/ disable the time slider for your map layers. ","name":"abouttime_workflow1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2988541,"date":"2026-11-09 22:03:52","modified":"2026-11-13 20:19:40","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1842,"height":1350,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1.png","medium-width":356,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":563,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1.png","large-width":1474,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1-1536x1126.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1126,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1.png","2048x2048-width":1842,"2048x2048-height":1350,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1-634x465.png","card_image-width":634,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AboutTime_Workflow1-1474x1080.png","wide_image-width":1474,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Even better, it can be configured directly from Map Viewer. Simply open the <strong>properties pane<\/strong> for your layer and, if it contains a date field, the the <strong>Time-based feature visibility<\/strong> option will be available. In the example below, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=d957997ccee7408287a963600a77f61f#overview\">USA and Canada Current Wildfires layer<\/a> from the Living Atlas was added to Map Viewer and was not time-enabled by default. It does however, contain multiple date fields. With this enhancement anyone can add this layer and then decide if they want to animate the incidents by date reported, start date, or containment date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2988591,"id":2988591,"title":"firegif","filename":"firegif.gif","filesize":836262,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/announcements\/whats-new-in-map-viewer-november-2026\/firegif","alt":"Map Viewer displaying current wildfire incidents across the United States and Canada. Red and teal fire symbols mark incidents across the map, while the layer properties pane shows visibility and time settings, including options for time-based feature visibility and time series with field values.","author":"421248","description":"","caption":"Enable and configure time on layers directly from Map Viewer. ","name":"firegif","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2981939,"date":"2026-11-09 22:38:57","modified":"2026-11-09 23:04:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1732,"height":859,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":230,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":381,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","large-width":1732,"large-height":859,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif-1536x762.gif","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":762,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","2048x2048-width":1732,"2048x2048-height":859,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif-826x410.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":410,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/09\/firegif.gif","wide_image-width":1732,"wide_image-height":859}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Even for the original item owner, enabling or disabling time directly in Map Viewer while authoring the map is a time-saver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of course, this doesn\u2019t mean any and every map layer can be turned into an animation; it still needs to have a properly formatted and populated date field\u2014in other words, it must contain data from more than one moment in time to animate through.\u00a0\u00a0For data configured differently, dig deeper\u00a0into\u00a0other options such as time-based layer visibility and time series in\u00a0Warren\u2019s fabulous blog post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/visualizing-time-in-map-viewer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Next Steps<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since not everyone has data with date fields, look for public maps and layers in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/\">Living Atlas<\/a> and an ArcGIS Online search. Be sure to experiment with changing the playback properties (HINT: the gear icon on the right side of the time slider) so you can animate through either a single instance of time, reveal a progressive build-up of events (with certain appropriate kinds of data) or animate through an internal of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":2980986,"post_author":"129801","post_date":"2026-09-02 09:00:22","post_date_gmt":"2026-09-02 16:00:22","post_content":"","post_title":"Visualizing time in Map Viewer","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"visualizing-time-in-map-viewer","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-09-02 12:42:59","post_modified_gmt":"2026-09-02 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