Add Resources

Content can be added to the map viewer from:

• a map service (via its URL)
• File (shapefile or geodatabase)

Steps:

• Within the map, click the Add Resources button, located in the upper left corner of the map title bar.
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• The resulting Add Resource dialog provides options to add resources to the map, either a map service via its URL or a shapeFile.

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URL:

Both Map Services and Image Services published on ArcGIS Online, on GIS servers that are available on a local machine or network, or from servers publicly available on the Internet are available for use. Cached services must be in the WGS 84 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projection, because ArcGIS Server cannot reproject cached services, and use the standard scale levels supported by Google, Bing, and ESRI's arcgis.com. To test the map/feature service prior to adding it to the map viewer, see the Test Map/Feature Service help topic.

NOTE: Cached map services published through ArcGIS Online do not support all of the capabilities of cached map services published through ArcGIS Server. Since the underlying data is not retained, the Identify tool is not supported.

• On the Add Resource dialog, select the URL radio button, if not already selected.
  
• Enter the URL of Map or Feature Service to Add (i.e., http://services.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/USGSTopoLarge/MapServer).
• Enter a Unique Title for Resource.
  
• Click Add Resource button to add the service to the map.
• NOTE: If the map service does not successfully add to the map (i.e. the spinner spins endlessly and the map service is not added to the map viewer or a Register Layer Failed: RequestTimeout error is received, consult the Test Map/Feature Service help topic.
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File:

Current functionality allows for shapefiles and file geodatabases (containing < 11 layers) to be added. Both shapefiles and file geodatabases, including all component files, must be zipped into a zip file with no additional directories or files. A valid .prj file must be included in the zipped shapefile file and all layers within the file geodatabase must be projected. The projection must be a Projected Coordinate System (NOT Geographic) which is recognized by ESRI. Geodatabases must be <10 MB in size whereas shapefiles cannot exceed 2 GB.

NOTE: In at least one instance, when a zipped shapefile was viewed in the Biotics 5 Map, some spatial features could not be detected via the Identify tool nor a spatial Feature Search. These spatial features could be found via an Attribute Search via the Feature Search tool and imported successfully even though they appeared to be missing (were not visually displayed). This problem was linked to the indexes and therefore can easily be avoided by excluding the .sbn and .sbx files from the zipped shapefile (i.e. only include the .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj files) prepared for use in the Map.

NOTE:Uploaded file geodatabases are handled by converting them to shapefiles and therefore the data within uploaded geodatabases are constrained by the 254 character limit of a shapefile. Hence, if the geodatabase has data exceeding 254 characters, when viewed in the Map, the data will be truncated.

• On the Add Resource dialog select the File radio button, if not already selected.
• Enter a Unique Title for Resource.
  
• Click Select File to Upload button and navigate to the file containing the layer to add to the map viewer.
• • If a geodatabase containing multiple layers is selected, within the Add Multiple Resources dialog select all layers within the geodatabase are selected to be added to the Map by default. If any layer(s) should not be added to the Map, deselect the appropriate layer(s). Click Add.
    
    
• If the uploaded zip file does not contain all components of the geodatabase or shapefile, including a valid projection, the following error will be displayed:
  

• Shapefile	Geodatabase

• To remove a map service from the map, click on the dropdown icon to the right of the resource in the Map Resources dialog and choose Remove.
  
  NOTE: The uploaded file will only persist in the Map during the logged in session.

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Related Topics:

• Feature Search
• Map Resources
• Map Services
• Test Map/Feature Service