/twitter-template

Twitter template is a configurable application template that provides a simple interface with a brushed chrome color scheme for displaying geolocated tweets.

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Twitter Template

Twitter Template is a configurable application template that provides a simple interface with a brushed chrome color scheme for displaying geolocated tweets. This template uses the Twitter search api to find and display geocoded tweets on the map. The Twitter API requires OAuth for authentication read more about Twitter authentication here. If you are setting up this template on your web server you will need to setup a proxy that makes requests and recieves results from Twitter without the client side app handling the oAuth authentication. There's a Twitter oAuth Search Proxy application written using PHP available on github that you can use. See the Twitter oAuth Search Proxy php for more details.

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#Features

  • Map: Choose the web map used in your application.
  • Title: The application title. The default title is the web map name.
  • Owner: Overrides the default web map owner name with different text.
  • Subtitle: Text appearing below the title used to further describe the application. The default subtitle is the web map summary.
  • Search String: The Twitter search string used to retrieve geolocated tweets that are displayed on the map.

Instructions

  1. Download and unzip the .zip file or clone the repository.
  2. Web-enable the directory.
  3. Access the .html page.
  4. Start writing your template!

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Deploying

  1. To deploy this application, download the template from Portal/ArcGIS Online and unzip it.
  2. Copy the unzipped folder containing the web app template files, such as index.html, to your web server. You can rename the folder to change the URL through which users will access the application. By default the URL to the app will be http://<Your Web Server>/<app folder name>/index.html
  3. Change the sharing host, found in index.html, to the sharing URL for ArcGIS Online or Portal. For ArcGIS Online users, keep the default value of www.arcgis.com or specify the name of your organization.
  • ArcGIS Online Example: "sharinghost": location.protocol + "//" + “<your organization name>.maps.arcgis.com
  • Portal Example where arcgis is the name of the Web Adaptor: "sharinghost": location.protocol + "//" + "webadaptor.domain.com/arcgis"
  1. If you are using Portal or a local install of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, change all references to the ArcGIS API for JavaScript in index.html to refer to your local copy of the API. Search for the references containing "//js.arcgis.com/3.13" and replace this portion of the reference with the url to your local install.
  • For example: "//webadaptor.domain.com/arcgis/jsapi/jsapi" where arcgis is the name of your Web Adaptor.
  1. Copy a map or group ID from Portal/ArcGIS Online and replace the default web map ID in the application’s index.html page. You can now run the application on your web server or customize the application further.

Note: If your application edits features in a feature service, contains secure services or web maps that aren't shared publicly, or generate requests that exceed 200 characters, you may need to set up and use a proxy page. Common situations where you may exceed the URL length are using complex polygons as input to a task or specifying a spatial reference using well-known text (WKT). For details on installing and configuring a proxy page see Using the proxy. If you do not have an Internet connection, you will need to access and deploy the ArcGIS API for JavaScript documentation from developers.arcgis.com.

#Requirements

  • Notepad or HTML editor
  • Some background with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Experience with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript is helpful.

#Resources

#Issues Found a bug or want to request a new feature? Please let us know by submitting an issue.

#Contributing Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute.

#Licensing

Copyright 2012 Esri

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

A copy of the license is available in the repository's license.txt file.