Hi Alina, thanks for checking in. It turns out this is not possible with the way that Arches serves the resource information to the map. For our purposes, we ended up hard-coding some labels into a custom mapbox style (we had a few other elements that we wanted to use anyway) and then using that style as the default basemap. This was a very case-specific workaround, but is good enough for us.
Adam On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:59 PM Alina Myklebust <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Were you able to figure out if it can be done that way? There was a > related question during the webinar Q&A session this past August. Here it > is: > > > > Community Question 6a: Can you give an overview of displaying spatial > data in Arches for a non-GIS audience? > > Yeah. So this is a question we get a lot, and it's a good one because it > really points, again, to this question of importing or access and data from > Arches, to within Arches, but from a different system. So I said earlier, > Arches is more than just the GIS because it can manage time and topology > and all these things. I didn't mean to imply that it isn't the GIS because > it really is. At its base, Arches provides all the same features and > functionality that you would expect from an enterprise-scale GIS. And that > includes being able to display spatial data, both data managed by Arches > and data that you might be managing in a traditional GIS system as well. > > And the bottom line is, Arches has all the tools that you need to > identify, sort of define the data that you want to publish on a map, and > the ability for you to define how it's styled, so what colors and where the > zoom levels and all the kind of detailed cartographic decisions that you > can make, Arches can implement an open specification for defining all that. > So the short kind of non-technical answer is, you have really all the same > flexibility that you would have with the traditional GIS in deciding what > you want to show on a map and how do you want to style it so that it shows > off or displays the important aspects of your data to best effect. > > So hopefully, that's a reasonable answer. If people want to go into more > detail, I'll wait to see if someone posts a question to the chat. > > > Best, > > Alina > > > On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 2:48:23 PM UTC-7, Adam Cox wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> We're hoping to add labels to the resource layers that appear on the map >> by default. In our case, with different site boundary polygons we'd like >> for people to know what the name of the site is without having to hover >> over/click/zoom in on the feature. I assume this can be done with the >> mapbox style advanced editing on the resource layer (in the map layer >> manager), but it seems like other people may have tried it out already so I >> thought I'd ask here first. >> >> Adam >> > -- > -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, > send email to [email protected]. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/829f7281-13fb-4cfd-9ec8-dacdda3fb3db%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/829f7281-13fb-4cfd-9ec8-dacdda3fb3db%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/CAGYBTav%2BZ%3DGqJvY3WUf%2B6TQBb8ws%2B1cSUwmBAH-v5aXip8o5sw%40mail.gmail.com.
