Maps which can be edited

When you finish adding the feature, a pop-up appears that allows you to populate the attributes for the new feature. The fields available are unique to the layer. For the bird sightings map example, you might type the bird species, whether it was male or female, its approximate age fledgling, juvenile, or adult , and the date and time you saw the bird.

For the new bird sightings feature example, you might add a photo you took of the bird. To edit internal feature services services not available outside your network , you need to use a web browser enabled with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS.

CORS is enabled on all supported browsers. You can edit internal feature services layers created with ArcGIS To take advantage of this support, administrators must configure trusted servers that allow ArcGIS Online to automatically pass through credentials. There are cases when you have full editing control on hosted feature layers regardless of the editing level set by the owner of the layer. To access full editing, open the layer in Map Viewer Classic from the item page.

The following are considerations when using full editing control:. Feedback on this topic? Back to Top. This option unlocks the map you edited online so that others can edit it. Select Upload if you edited a local copy in a Mindjet desktop app. You can also select Create version before check-in to create a version before you check in the map. Note: Your ability to create versions depends on your account type. You are not required to create a version before you check in a map.

For more information on version control, and why you might want to use it, see Create and use versions. Sometimes you check out a map, then change your mind about editing it, or you want to discard the edits you made.

Since you do not want to save your changes, you do not need to check it in. You can simply discard the check out. When a map is shared with users, those users are assigned a Permission for the map that determines whether they can edit or only view it.

Note: Your account type, your role in the account, and your own access rights determine your ability to change Permissions for other users. For more about the different permission levels, see Account roles and Understand access rights. Click the arrow next to the name of the person whose Permission you want to change. File Permission options will vary depending upon the type of user, and if the map is in a project or folder their Project or Folder permission.

For more information, see Understand permissions. Read-only allows a user to open and view the map. With this level of access, the user cannot delete, edit, download, or check out the map, and they cannot share it. If the map is in a folder, and a Member has Edit access to that folder, you cannot reduce their access to Read-only. Edit allows a user to delete, edit, download, and check out the map.

Members can share the map with others. Remove revokes the user's access to the map. They can no longer view or edit the map. Note: You cannot rename a map that is checked out. You can move maps between projects and folders, as long as you have Edit access to both the source and the destination.

You cannot move maps between accounts. Note: You cannot move a map that is checked out. Drag it from the Files list to its new location in the left pane within a project or folder. The map appears in its new location. Hint: You can also right-click and use the shortcut menu Cut, Copy, and Paste commands to move or copy the map. Deleting a map removes it from the account, and users will no longer have access to it. If you have created versions of the map using the Version feature, all versions of the map are also deleted.

Note: You cannot delete a map that is checked out. In the shortcut menu, point to Delete, and then click Delete. Click OK to confirm the deletion, or Cancel to retain the map. Deleted maps will appear in the Files list with a trash icon. In the shortcut menu, point to Delete, and then click Undelete. If the map's project or folder was also deleted, you must undelete the project or folder as well to make the map accessible to other users. Use these same steps to permanently delete a map , except select Permanently Delete in step 4.

Once the map is permanently deleted, it cannot be recovered. Ryan Ariano. You can create a map in Google Maps using My Maps in order to save a custom map for later use.

Your custom maps can be shared in My Maps, which you can log into with your Google account on multiple devices. You can also edit your maps to change the route or add stops. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Ryan Ariano grew up in Baltimore when the Macintosh was cutting edge, lived in Los Angeles as Blackberries gave way to iPhones, and now lives in Jackson Hole where his life is held together by Bluetooth.

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