After altering the csv and replacing comma by points I was in line with the basemap… ArcGIS online does not care about your decimal separator and rounds coordinates by default. Unfortunately the positions were shifted against the basemap and were not in line with it in the end. Now you can see the city file below as well.Īdditionally ArcGIS online does not support kmz files out of the box (see comments below) and I haven’t found any data especially for Iraq.īut I found an administrative boundaries data layer which I added. Only the basemap was presented first hand. It seemed like it took about 20min to migrate the added layer into the databases of our friends at Redland. After choosing “Share” I was presented with an iframe code to embed (see the map below) but I haven’t managed to see my cities right away. This was not straightforward especially not for the layer. First I needed to check my layers and maps to be sharable with “everyone”. After this it went quite smooth: Pressed “New Map”, click on “add+”, choose my csv file and 1-2-3 I got my map with a selectable basemap, my cities with labels and population-proportional circles (easy due to interaction menu on the layer in content and “change style” sidenote: Fancy heatmaps are available to!).īut now comes the tricky part: sharing it on an own website. Unfortunately does not tell you to use only letters and numbers in passwords (is this 1998?) so it took me a while to register for my 60 day trial period. It is developed by ESRI, located in Redlands US, (might be of interest if you plan to host more interesting data regarding so-called states of the “Axis of evil” -))Īfter registration with an email address I was asked to create an account and an organization. We don’t care if we cover everything and it is just our personal opinion.ĪrcGIS Online ArcGIS online is the web version of the well established ArcGIS software stack. Many of the “analyzed” platforms have much more functionality as we need. As some mappers don’t have coordinates we will check geocoding possibilities as well.Īttention: This is not a professional, in-depth analysis of current webmapping platforms. We will try to export the map as an image and try to embed into our blog post as an interactive map. The geo-aware people will probably download the same data from Natural Earth Data as shapefiles but a csv file and the work with Google Earth resulting in a kmz/kml file is quite common in the non-GIS world. coordinates) and a kmz from Google Earth where we “digitized” provinces. The “crucial” part: We only have a csv file with city names and attributes (incl. We would like to have cities represented in size of population and the provinces and cities should have labels as well. We aim to create a map of provinces and cities in Iraq. Prior our short “overview” let’s explain the setting. If you don’t want to struggle with a desktop mapping software or you “just want to create a map” for your publication, business data, website or professional service the following online mapping solutions might be the one-stop-shop for your needs. So if you run a site with a ton of pages, Google recommends breaking up your sitemap into several smaller sitemaps.īe Careful With Dates: URLs in your sitemap have a “last modified” date associated with them.Working with a desktop GIS might be a good choice for geodata-experts, GIS-people in general and everyone who is inside the fields of geosciences. Huge Site? Break Things Up Into Smaller Sitemaps: Sitemaps have a limit of 50k URLs. But when Googlebot lands on the page, they get blocked. Your sitemap says: “This page is important enough to make it into our sitemap”. Otherwise, you’re sending mixed messages to Google. If you clock a page in robots.txt or use the “noindex” tag on a page, you DON’T want it to appear in your sitemap. It’s important that your sitemaps and Robots.txt work together. Or it could be that the number of pages on your site exceed your crawl budget. It could be that there’s a lot of duplicate content in those 5,000 pages. One of the cool things about using a sitemap is that it can gives you a ballpark estimate of:įor example, let’s say that your sitemap links to 5,000 pages.īut when you look at the Google Search Console, your site only has 2,000 pages indexed. Use Your Sitemap to Find Problems With Indexing
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