New Community Maps Feature

The APAN 8 upgrade last October included a powerful new mapping feature called Community Maps. If you have not already set it up, here is what you need to do to enable Community Maps in your group:

1. As a group owner go to your group’s homepage and select Group Options
2. Click the Features tab
3. Turn on the mapping features you wish to use by selecting the check boxes.
   1. Geotagging - Enables tagging maps for group content. (internal content)
   2. Community Maps - Enables Owners to create and upload custom maps. (external content)
4. Click Save
5. Navigate back to your group’s homepage

Now that you have Community Maps enabled in your group, navigate to the Maps link under the header and create a new map! With the new mapping capability, you can:

• Draw points, lines, and polygons
• Import geospatial feeds and files
• Add tagged maps from internal content and photos

We want to hear from you, so please let us know your thoughts about functionality and how you would like to see our mapping features evolve down the road. Please visit the APAN Mapping Users Group (MAPUG) to join the conversation. We rely on feedback from our stakeholders and users:

https://community.apan.org/wg/mapug/

NOTES:

For more information on Community Maps functionality please refer to our Knowledge Base:

https://community.apan.org/support/w/kb/14816.maps-within-groups/

Currently Community Maps is only available in APAN Groups (Telligent) and not Sites (SharePoint). We do have an ArcGIS Webpart available in Sites as a mapping solution for our SharePoint users. Please refer to our knowledge base for more details:

https://community.apan.org/support/w/kb/14817.maps-within-sites/