This will serve as a guide to accessing & using resources that allow you to make and export a map online, either using data you provide, or data provided by the platform.
The Yale University ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based mapping platform.
Need Training? Esri offers virtual training to learn how to publish data and map layers. The 3-hr course "Creating and Sharing GIS Content Using ArcGIS Online" might help you to start with your web-mapping projects. To learn more about that and other Esri Virtual training courses, as well as how to enroll at no cost (Yale members only), please visit the Virtual GIS Training section.
To access your Yale ArcGIS Online account, please follow the latest instructions provided in the Yale GIS FAQs.
Students who author content in the Yale ArcGIS Online should make a plan to migrate their content before graduation. The Yale ArcGIS Online is available as long as your Yale NetID is active. Therefore, if you plan to leave Yale, due to graduation or change of employment, you must plan the sustainability of your Yale ArcGIS Online content, including StoryMaps.
Please reserve a GIS consultation to discuss your content migration options.
The options to preserve your content are to migrate the content to your own ArcGIS Online account, to your course's client account, or find a Yale sponsor who agrees to keep your project as a collaborator. Please review the following scenarios you may consider:
Esri's content transfer assistant
Many of you may have used the AGO Assistant tool to help with workflows such as copying items and content between users and organizations, managing multiple accounts, etc. Esri has developed a new, improved version of the tool, the ArcGIS Assistant which is currently in Beta. More info is in this blog. It is a community-driven project and the team who developed it is looking for feedback – there is a GitHub repo with an issue tracker and discussion forum.
| Scenario | While production occurs | Before you leave Yale | Remarks or suggested actions |
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| A - Your content | Using the Yale ArcGIS Online | Transfer content to:
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Through:
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| B - Content for a course's client | Using the Yale ArcGIS Online | Transfer content to:
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If the client does not have a current ArcGIS Online account, their options are:
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| C - Content for a course's client | Using client's ArcGIS Online | No migration necessary |
If the client does not have a current ArcGIS Online account, their options are:
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| D - Your content or a course's client content | Using a free ArcGIS Online account | No migration necessary |
Free options, contingent to eligibility:
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ArcGIS Online (AGOL) allows to create maps authored by several members of a special Collaborative AGOL Group, which can only be created by our ArcGIS Online administrators. A collaborative group in ArcGIS Online allow its members to update all items in the group.
If your research group would like to collaboratively create interactive maps, you need to request a collaborative group. Please send us an e-mail with the following information:
Once the group is created, the owner will be able to invite other Yale University ArcGIS Online members to the group.
Non-Yale Collaborators?
The collaborative AGOL groups only allow collaborators who are members of the Yale University ArcGIS Online. If you have a project that requires non-Yale collaborators who actually need to edit the content of your maps, please send a note with the details to submit for approval and obtain guest accounts for them.
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