Introduction to Map Viewers

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Last updated: 09, May, 2022
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Map Viewers refer to browser based web maps in Spatial Portal and ArcGIS Online.

Topics in this section:

Spatial Portal Map Viewer

The Map Viewer within Spatial Portal has limited GIS functionality but enables you to view and interrogate map and image services, as well as create and print a map. To add, view and interrogate the Restricted services, please Sign In first with your Spatial Portal account as described in Signing in to Spatial Portal (Access to Restricted services). Even though you are signed in, you are Viewer User, which means you can print, but you cannot save a modified map.

From the Spatial Portal homepage go to Web Services, then click on View All Group Content button, then scroll down to the Elevation web services, Event & incident web services or Imagery web services folder. Click on the icon, or right-click the three dots (…) on the right, to Open the page containing its services.

Please note that only ESRI proprietary imagery layers can be displayed in Map Viewers.

Imagery Layers

not the WMS Layers

 

To filter out only the Imagery Layers, first click View All Group Content,

then go to the Item Type menu on the left and choose Layers and Imagery Layers:

Or under the View All Group Content of the ‘Imagery web services’ there are now Group Categories. Choose the Esri Image Service subgroup for viewing in the Map Viewers.

Usage restrictions are indicated by icons as follows:

 

ArcGIS Online Map Viewer

The same functionality as described above in the Spatial Portal Map Viewer section is also available via the REST endpoint (Services Directory), in the ESRI ArcGIS Online Map Viewer.   The differences with the Spatial Portal Map Viewer are:

  • When adding a Spatial Portal service to an ArcGIS Online web map, you cannot use the Search for Layers functionality, but you need to use Add Layer from Web copying and pasting in the rest endpoint URL because you’re not in our internal environment.

  • You can save your map when you Sign In to your own, or your organisation’s publisher ArcGIS Online account.  Users on the LANDS network can use their own publisher QSpatial Live credentials.