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Monday, June 4, 2012

Tips for displaying photos in pop-ups


When displaying photos or other images in ArcGIS Online web map pop-ups it’s sometimes the small things that can make a big difference in the user experience. A small project recently completed for the Montgomery Botanical Center is an example of how you can do some minor tweaks to optimize your photos in pop-ups, and put your best pop-up forward.
For this project we received the locations of trees within the Center in a spreadsheet, along with photographs of each tree. The photographs were quite large – over 5 MB each.
In our first iteration we placed the photos at a web location and added a column to our spreadsheet that included the URL to each photo so we could configure them into our pop-up. Here’s the raw pop-up after we first dragged and dropped the spreadsheet onto our map:

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