ArcGIS Blog

Jul 10, 2024

Map Viewer at the 2024 Esri User Conference

By Bekah Bollin

Pack your bags, because the 2024 Esri User Conference starts next week!

Still not sure which sessions to attend? We’ve got you covered. This blog is your guide to all of the can’t miss Map Viewer sessions. Browse the quick links below to hop to areas of interest and fill up your session agenda.

General

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: An Overview of Map Viewer

Tuesday, Jul 16 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Room 32 AB

Tuesday, Jul 16 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT | Room 30 AB

New to Map Viewer? Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Map Viewer component of both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. Learn the basic functionality of Map Viewer, including interface navigation and feature utilization. Understand how to create and manage maps, add various data types, set symbology, and save your work. Explore the sharing and publishing options available within Map Viewer and learn how to choose the most suitable option based on your specific needs.

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Tips and Tricks for Map Viewer

Thursday, Jul 18 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 5

Think you know everything about Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise? Join us for a fun, informative tips and tricks presentation that demonstrates how to navigate through Map Viewer, explore various basemaps, apply custom symbology, and more. You are sure to see something that you may not have known previously to help you take your Map Viewer knowledge to the next level.

Smart Mapping and Symbology

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: An Overview of Smart Mapping

Tuesday, Jul 16 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT | Room 30 AB

Work smarter, not harder with Smart Mapping in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise! This presentation guides you in creating visually appealing and informative maps using the intelligent suggestions provided by Smart Mapping. Learn how to apply Smart Mapping to your data, select the appropriate map style, and customize your maps to enhance visual appeal and information conveyance. Presenters also demonstrate common tasks such as adjusting color schemes, setting class breaks, and changing symbols.

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro: Publishing and Sharing Symbology

Thursday, Jul 18 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 12

Discover the world of ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online symbology. See how to author maps using Map Viewer’s wide range of point, line, and polygon symbol galleries to style your features. Learn the art of publishing and sharing your own symbol galleries in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. Presenters describe the skills that you need to enhance your GIS data visualization, packaging, and sharing capabilities, making your maps and apps more consistent and impactful across your organization.

Editing

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Creating Smart Forms in Map Viewer

Tuesday, Jul 16 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 14

Explore the world of smart forms in ArcGIS and gain knowledge and skills to effectively create, test, and refine smart forms. Learn what smart forms are and their role in enhancing data collection and editing in Map Viewer. Step through the process of designing your own smart forms, including how to use ArcGIS Arcade expressions, focusing on field arrangement, properties, and the power of conditional visibility.

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Editing in Map Viewer

Wednesday, Jul 17 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 13

Ready to enhance your GIS skills? Become familiar with the various map editing tools available in Map Viewer. Learn how to add, delete, and modify features, and how to manage the attribute data associated with these features. This presentation guides you through the use of the attribute table and how to edit individual attributes. It also covers how to save your changes to your maps and data, including understanding the implications to downstream maps or applications.

Pop-ups

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Designing Dynamic Pop-ups

Tuesday, Jul 16 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 14

Explore ways to enliven your content with pop-ups! With pop-ups, your web maps and apps are more engaging and interactive. Join us for tips on how to configure and customize pop-ups; create dynamic content with ArcGIS Arcade expressions; enrich pop-ups with media content like images, charts, and videos; and master the art of testing and refinement for different devices and screens.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: Improving UX with Pop-ups

Thursday, Jul 18 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT | Room 30 AB

Want to learn how to modify the look and feel of pop-ups to meet your application’s requirements? Join us to explore recently added features in Map Viewer and ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript that allow you to modify the appearance and behavior of pop-ups. Presenters discuss how to configure different elements within the pop-up, display charts, and more to meet your needs.

Analysis

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Spatial Analysis in Map Viewer

Wednesday, Jul 17 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Room 32 AB

Discover the power of performing spatial analysis with ArcGIS Online. Presenters introduce the analysis experience in Map Viewer and available tools. Explore capabilities like analysis history to improve your analysis workflows. Discover examples that can use your organization’s data as well as data from other sources to discover trends and solve spatial problems. Presenters also discuss newly available features, such as custom web tools.

Arcade

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Optimizing Arcade Workflows

Tuesday, Jul 16 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 7

Confidently use Arcade expressions to enhance your maps and apps! Explore how to use Arcade expressions in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise environments. Learn best practices for applying Arcade to tell engaging stories, create rich visualizations, and make dynamic content for your audiences. Presenters also share tips and tricks for fine-tuning your maps and keeping them fast and responsive.

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: An Overview of ArcGIS Arcade

Wednesday, Jul 17 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 7
Thursday, Jul 18 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 6

Create custom content in ArcGIS applications using ArcGIS Arcade, which is a portable, lightweight, and secure expression language. Learn how Arcade can be used in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise, how to determine which projects may be suited for Arcade, and how to prepare to use Arcade in your own workflows.

Charts

Data Exploration and Visualization for Spatial Analysis

Tuesday, Jul 16 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT | Room 8

Thursday, Jul 18 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT | Room 30 AB

Join us to learn visualization techniques for analyzing and effectively communicating your data using in ArcGIS Pro and Map Viewer. Discover how different methods, from maps to charts to 3D scenes, can help you compare categories and amounts, visualize distributions and frequency, explore relationships and correlations, and understand change over time or distance.

Imagery

Imagery in ArcGIS Online: Processing and Analyzing Imagery in Your Organization

Tuesday, Jul 16 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 11

Wednesday, Jul 17 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 11

Curious about the imagery hosting and analysis capabilities in ArcGIS Online? This presentation focuses on topics such as, out-of-the-box tools and functions, using the raster function editor web user experience, applying your model for dynamic on-the-fly analysis, creating persistent results, and the recent licensing update to ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online. In addition, learn about best practices for modeling using Map Viewer and ArcGIS API for Python.

ArcGIS: Manage and Visualize Oriented Imagery

Wednesday, Jul 17 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 11

Thursday, Jul 18 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT | Expo Demo Theater 11

Use the oriented imagery capability of ArcGIS to expand the range of imagery sources and perspectives in your GIS for more informed decision-making and improved situational awareness. Presenters discuss the full oriented imagery workflow: how to manage your imagery as an oriented imagery dataset in ArcGIS Pro, share your imagery as an oriented imagery layer in ArcGIS Online, and visualize your imagery in ArcGIS Pro and on the web.

Basemaps

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World: Basemaps Are Not Just the Background

Tuesday, Jul 16 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Ballroom 6 DE

Wednesday, Jul 17 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT | Ballroom 6 DE

Basemaps are the foundation for your maps and apps, but they are also part of the story that you are telling. Discover the integral role that basemaps play in developing your maps, and learn about available options through ArcGIS Living Atlas and how to choose appropriate basemaps. Explore how to use tools in ArcGIS Pro and Map Viewer to build your own basemap versions with the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.

Esri UC Event Map

Explore the event map below to find your desired room in the convention center.

Visit us at the UC Expo!

The Map Viewer team will be at the 2024 Esri User Conference Expo to answer all your questions, listen to your feedback, and more. The team will be located in the ArcGIS Online section, so make sure to stop by at the following times:

Day and Date	Time	Location
Tuesday, July 16	9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.	Halls A/B/C/D
Wednesday, July 17	9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.	Halls A/B/C/D
Thursday, July 18	9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.	Halls A/B/C/D

Summary

Whether you are a first-time attendee or a seasoned UC veteran we are looking forward to sharing this week with you. Until then, happy mapping!

Bekah Bollin

Bekah joined the ArcGIS Online team in 2022 as a Product Engineer. She contributes to a variety of projects in the ArcGIS Online space including GIS data editing, management, and visualization. When she is not making maps, she can be found hiking outside with her dog or finding a cozy coffee shop.