Add ability to share map extent in URL

[talllguy]

Feature request ❔ : I've been attending Esri MUC and have a few story map ideas! During the conference I was checking out some of the published story maps and wished I could share out a url where the map extent was somehow encoded into the URL.

Is this something that we could see in the future?

For reference, OpenStreetMap does this now so that as you pan around, the URL is updated dynamically. This would be great to see on Esri Story Maps!

[glazou]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.

One dilemma for us is to let user share what they like about the story versus delivering the story as the author designed it.

We allow in Map Tour (and Map Journal as an opt-in feature for the author) end-users to share a link that start the story at a specific point (or section for Map Journal).

I'm not sure about going further than that and implementing your suggestion but I will reconsider that during next release planning with my colleagues and update the issue.

See the dialog in Map Tour that allows that:

[talllguy]

@glazou thanks for the info! I was checking out some of the apps on the mobile (specifically this one and didn't notice the Link to current place option. That is definitely good to have. The previous generations of Google Maps and OpenStreetMap had that as an option but both have updated to dynamic URL.

So, yea in future iterations consider an opt-in for a dynamic URL.

PS: It doesn't look like the share button made it into the mobile version of the same story map as I linked above.

[glazou]

Thanks.
Yes Map Tour definitely need share buttons on the mobile view :)
We plan to redesign the mobile view sometimes next year.