I will be using ArcGIS’s Scene Viewer to create a three dimensional globe based of a two dimensional ArcGIS Online map that I previously made. I tried doing this for my midterm project but was not able to successfully figure it out but now I have! This can be useful for Digital Arts and Humanities work since it creates a more interactive version of a data visualization that may also be more accurate depending on the original data.
- Go to Scene Viewer to automatically create a global web scene.
- A pop up titled Scene Viewer will come up which you should just close out of.
- On the right hand side select the Basemap button and choose one of the many base maps for the globe. I chose the Modern Antique map.
4. On the left hand side select the plus sign and Browse Layers.
5. Select My Content in the drop down menu and you will be able to see maps that you’ve previously created in ArcGIS. Pick one of them and select Add. I chose a map I made for my midterm project that had data about Tate artists from 1950-1960. Here is a tutorial on how to make a map yourself. Otherwise, you are able to import a CSV file into Scene Viewer as well.
6. The data will be placed on the globe and will look something like this.
7. If you go into Layer Manager and select the three dots next to the layer you have added, you are able to configure the content.
8. Under Layer Style things such as the appearance of the points on the globe can be changed. I changed by points to signify if the artist was male or female by color.
9. If you go back and go to Layer Properties you can select Configure Pop-Ups you can Enable Pop-Ups so that the data from each point can be seen if you click on it.
10. Going back to the menu on the left, if you press Slide Manager you can capture slides to show the differences between layers if you have multiple. A tutorial can be found here.
11. Make sure to save the scene!
12. In Create Apps pick Instant Apps in order to make an app for the scene. Here is a more in-depth tutorial to creating apps and why it is important.
13. Choose 3D Viewer so that others are able to view the scene and interact with it!
14. The end result will look like this. Hopefully this tutorial was helpful!
