Why
Many users can create GIS Layers and host them on their own
ArcGIS Online Organization account. This
gives them the ability to create custom layers based on a variety workflows.
Benefits
Benefits includes
- Direct control of layer creation and design
- The ability to use layers within AGOL
- Ability to benefit from ArcGIS Pro tools
Challenges
- Requires experience with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS
Online
- May use ArcGIS Online credits increasing user
costs
- Things to consider include
- If you are publishing for eventual use in Survey123, only publish one layer or feature class
- If you require complex symbology it is best to publish the services to Intterra directly.
Procedure
These set of procedures requires experience. Refer to the ArcGIS Pro
documentation
Create or load the desired layers in an ArcGIS Pro
that you would like to publish to your ArcGIS Online account.
In this example we
will use a set of user created layers intended for mapping features for a Post
Incident Analysis
Select Share>Web Layers to open dialog to
share
Editing needs to be enabled for the feature
service select
Publish Service to your account
Now the service
is published to an AGOL account