{"id":80111,"date":"2017-10-20T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/updates-to-the-living-atlas-website\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:08:22","slug":"updates-to-the-living-atlas-website","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/announcements\/announcements\/updates-to-the-living-atlas-website","title":{"rendered":"Updates to the Living Atlas Website"},"author":7621,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101],"tags":[23951,40161],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-80111","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-community-maps-program","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"The ArcGIS Living Atlas website has been updated.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>We made several enhancements to the Living Atlas of the World website (<a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/#s=0\">livingatlas.arcgis.com<\/a>) that make it easier to browse, filter, and contribute to the Living Atlas. We continuously strive to provide the best experience for our users, and we hope these changes help us meet this goal. This release includes two new languages, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Updates have also been made to the Home tab (or landing page) and the My Contributions tab. We rearranged the Home tab to make discovering Living Atlas content more straightforward, and we made subtle improvements to the My Contributions tab to make contributing easier.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for more details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88664\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blogpostimage1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88664 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blogpostimage1-1024x594.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. The Living Atlas of the World website.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Home tab<\/h3>\n<p>Updates to the Home tab:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Filter menus have been moved below the Living Atlas themes and now include a region filter. (This filter was formerly part of the theme list in green above the filters.)<\/li>\n<li>Browse and search results are displayed with \u201cTop Results\u201d listed first.\n<ul>\n<li>If a Living Atlas theme is chosen, the results will be presented in their respective sub-themes.<\/li>\n<li>You can only browse one Living Atlas theme at a time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example, the user can choose Basemaps OR Demographics from the list of Living Atlas themes but can\u2019t choose Basemaps AND Demographics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88665\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blogpostimage2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88665 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blogpostimage2-1024x488.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Redesigned Home tab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>My Contributions tab<\/h3>\n<p>Updates to the My Contributions tab:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPoints\u201d is now used when referring to an item\u2019s score.\n<ul>\n<li>This has been implemented in the item\u2019s overall score and in the \u201cSuggested Improvements.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Each suggested improvement is a hyperlink that can be hovered over\/clicked on to learn more.<\/li>\n<li>Scene Layers are now supported. This means you can contribute your 2D and 3D Web Scene Layers to the Living Atlas.<\/li>\n<li>You can remove items once they have been accepted into the Living Atlas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88724\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/updatedblogimage31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88724 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/10\/updatedblogimage31-1024x406.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 3. Updated My Contributions tab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although these incremental updates are small, we hope they make a positive impact on the browse, filter, and contribute experience. Stay tuned as we continue to improve the site!<\/p>\n<p>Have feedback? 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