๐ŸŒ #ArcGISEarth230Tips | Tip 21: Save and Share Your Work with ArcGIS Earth Workspaces ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’พ

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ArcGIS Earthโ€™s Workspace feature allows you to save, restore, and share your entire mapping environment, ensuring seamless continuity between sessions. By preserving basemaps, terrain layers, operational data, bookmarks, and custom settings, Workspaces streamline project management and enhance collaboration across teams.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How to Use Workspaces in ArcGIS Earth:

1๏ธโƒฃ Save and Restore Your Workspace ๐Ÿ’พ๐Ÿ”„ Keep your work organized by saving a Workspace directory, which stores your active layers, bookmarks, basemap settings, and movie tracks. Enable Autosave to automatically update your progress and prevent data loss.

2๏ธโƒฃ Import, Export, and Share Workspaces ๐Ÿ“ค๐Ÿ“‚ Use the Import Workspace option to load a previously saved workspace or Export Workspace to share it with colleagues. This is especially useful when working on ongoing projects or collaborative mapping efforts.

3๏ธโƒฃ Manage and Customize Your Workspace Settings โš™๏ธ๐Ÿ”ง Reset a workspace to start fresh, clear all content, or revert to default settings as needed. Workspaces are stored in Documents by default, but you can set a custom directory for better organization.

๐Ÿš€ Pro Tips:

1๏ธโƒฃ Use Shared Workspaces โ€“ Export workspaces to a shared directory so teams can collaborate seamlessly. 2๏ธโƒฃ Keep Multiple Workspaces โ€“ Save different Workspaces for various projects, regions, or analysis types to streamline workflow switching. 3๏ธโƒฃ Optimize for Version Compatibility โ€“ Workspaces from older versions of ArcGIS Earth may not be fully supported in the latest release.

Screenshot of Paia, United States, from ArcGIS Earth
Puran Zhang @puran