Community cleanups are a popular activity to teach children about the environment and foster engagement in the community. The new Learn ArcGIS lesson, Map your community cleanup, guides a community group or class through the process of collecting and visualizing data from a community cleanup.
In this lesson, you will use ArcGIS Field Maps to gather data on the litter collected during your community cleanup. You will then use ArcGIS Insights to create a report showing your cleanup progress.
Platforms: ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Field Maps, and ArcGIS Insights
Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Level: Beginner*
*This lesson is appropriate for elementary school students in grades 4-6
Is the “old” version still available? We used to be able to change the values of profile variables for testing purposes. Now, it seems we are stuck with the one available feature, with only 3 fields (which can’t be changed) and the geometry. How are we supposed to test/evaluate if it is working correctly if we can no longer put in data values? As is, there isn’t even a way to test if the null/IsEmpty is working as expected, as there are no empty fields in the hard coded test feature. Would be nice to have this feature back so… Read more »
Hi Rhett, thanks for your feedback. You can easily bring in your own data values using any of the suggestions provided within the playground, such as “Feature from a portal item” or “FeatureSet from a portal item”. This will allow you to test your expression with your actual feature attributes, instead of updating a separate feature that is unrelated to your data.
If you want to manually add/update data values, you can also just create a dictionary/array of values and use that for testing as well. Check out the debugging guide page for more info. Hope this helps!
GetEnvironment is failing in field maps. Just crashes. Is this not support at all?
Hi Doug, the released version of Field Maps is still based on 100.15 of the Maps SDKs, so is using version 1.19 of Arcade (Arcade version matrix). We’ll have an update that is built on 200.x next year, which would include GetEnvironment. Hope this helps!